POC12-143

Localization movement – the economic argument for keeping it local

Speakers: Linda Currie, Transition Berkeley; Susan Silber, Buy Local Berkeley; Carolina Miranda, Sustainable Business Alliance; Erin Kilmer-Neel, Oakland Grown; Hut Landon, SF Locally Owned Merchants Association

There are numerous studies demonstrating how “buy local” campaigns benefit communities; how support of local retailers, producers, and manufacturers benefits city and citizen wealth; how moving your money to community banks and credit unions better serves entrepreneurs and residents; how it’s friendlier to the planet to source locally; how nonprofits receive more funding from locally-based business; and how promoting local entrepreneurs and business owners verses out-of-town owned chains promotes diversity and healthy, resilient communities. Learn the economics behind the localization movement and how you can personally participate in shifting dollars locally.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$10.00

$10.00

BALLE10-225

Rebuilding Local Food Systems

Speakers: Will Raap, Glenda Humiston, Karen Marzloff, Alissa Barron

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

BALLE10-204

Network Innovation Spotlight: Policy Changes to Support Local Living Economies

Speakers: Leanne Krueger-Braneky, Kimber Lanning

MP3

$12.00

$12.00

POC12-113

Unions in the new economy

Speakers: Jay Youngdahl, East Bay Express; Carl Hall, Pacific Media Workers Guild; John Logan, SF State Management School; Kerianne Steele, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld

Those who advocate new economic forms speak a language of ethical treatment of all. Yet, visions of a new economy often neglect to consider effects on workers, especially workers who perform more repetitive jobs. At the same time, the historic form of protections for workers – unions – has had a focus on community and protection of all since their inception. Yet, unions have had difficulties adapting to changes in the old economy and have not fully entered the conversation about a new economy. What is the role of unions in a new economy? How should new economy advocates think about this? How can these groups work together? This session will explore these rich and perplexing questions.

MP3

$7.00

$7.00

POC12-163

Complementary and alternative currencies to the US dollar

Speakers: Guillaume Lebleu, Bernal Bucks; Jessica Nowlan, Oakland Grown Gift Card; Charlie Rebich, Oakland Acorn; Mira Luna, BACE Time Bank; Moderator: Amy Barr, Sustainable Business Alliance

Where national currency is scarce or there is a lack of market support for community services, local currencies can facilitate better flows of resources and energy by matching unmet needs with underutilized resources. Investing in community currency means investing in your community’s health and real wealth for the long haul, and therefore our own security and happiness. Democratically-controlled local money can be a powerful tool in relocalization to shift economic power and transform the economy into a more caring and cooperative one.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$10.00

$10.00

POC12-171

Slow Money – investing as if food, farms, and fertility matter

Speakers: Woody Tasch, Founder and Chairman, Slow Money; Speaker presented by – Temra Costa, Sustainable Food Advocate and Author of Farmer Jane

Today, over $12 million has been invested directly in small food enterprises through the Slow Money network, both nationally and through over a dozen local chapters, one of which is in Northern California. We are still at the beginning, and at the same time we are well on the way to our goal of 1 million people investing 1% of their money in local food systems, this decade. Learn how, in Wendell Berry’s words, these “millions of small acts” can begin to rebuild our economy… from the ground up.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$10.00

$10.00

Subtotal

$64.00