Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman was interviewed on pollinators, social enterprise and remaking economic development. From the interview: Amy Cortese: Explain the concept of a pollinator. Michael Shuman: In nature, pollinators like bees take the pollens from one plant...
Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman’s report Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense was reviewed in the November/December edition of Vermont Woman. From the article: The authors challenge trends widely accepted by Wall Street’s “globalization.” That “too big to fail” corporate economy...
Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman’s report Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense was reviewed by Carl Etnier in the Montpelier Bridge. From the article: It turns out that many models of local investing are also local, or at least state-specific. Some...
Interview of Michael Shuman by Steve Dubb, Director of Special Projects, The Democracy Collaborative. Originally published at community-wealth.org. Michael Shuman is an economist, attorney, and globally recognized expert on community economics. He is one of the architects of the...
Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman’s new book The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative Self-Financing “Pollinator” Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity was interviewed at Alternet. From the article: The thrust of The Local Economy Solution is not about changing...
This week marks the official publication of Post Carbon Institute’s first handbook on local investment, written by myself and Gwen Hallsmith. Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense, builds on my 2012 book on local investment, Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to...
Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman’s new book The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative Self-Financing “Pollinator” Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity was reviewed at Alternet. From the review: In his new book, The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative Self-Financing...
A growing local economy movement is putting down roots in the United States and around the world, as people work to strengthen local businesses, promote "buy local" campaigns, and end subsidies and other unfair advantages given to nonlocal businesses....
Post Carbon Fellow Michael Shuman’s book Local Dollars, Local Sense was praised in this article at VTDigger. From the article: Spearheading the growing national movement toward local business generation is the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE, which...
Join economist, attorney, and community economics expert Michael Shuman for a discussion of his new book, The Local Economy Solution. Drawing on more than two dozen examples of what he calls “pollinator” enterprises, Shuman explores self-financing entities that stimulate...