Resources

Fair Trade
The Fair Trade Federation (FTF) is an association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers, and producers whose members are committed to providing fair wages and good employment opportunities to economically disadvantaged artisans and farmers worldwide.
http://www.fairtradefederation.org/

Conservation Economy

-Search for most resources for alternative economics here...great website!!!
http://www.conservationeconomy.net/pattern_map/flash/index.html


Relocalization

-Post Carbon Institute
'PCI is a think, action and education tank offering research, project tools, education and information to implement proactive strategies to adapt to an energy constrained world' (from website). Gives information and tools for relocalization, including how to join or start a Post Carbon Outpost.
http://www.postcarbon.org/

-Relocalization Network
Find a relocalization group in your area in this directory of over 100.
http://www.relocalize.net/groups/

-BayLocalize.org

-Willits Economic LocaLization Project, Willits, California.
Community initiative working toward economic independence in the city of Willits and surrounding area. First project of its kind in the United States. http://www.willitseconomiclocalization.org/.

-Powerdown Project
Powerdown assists municipalities and communities in their efforts to continue delivering public safety, public works and essential services in the face of a decline in the supply of electricity, natural gas and oil. It specializes in providing a template for cities to follow to succeed in relocaliztion.
www.powerdown.org

-Food Links
In building a “food localism” movement, Foodlink intends to identify, expand and create new markets for local farms and farm-based businesses while also building a demand for local food products.
http://www.foodlink-waterlooregion.ca/index.php?first=3ef29e4ebf789

Bioregionalism

-Planet Drum Foundation - San Francisco, California.
'Non-profit ecological education organization that promotes the concepts of bioregions and emphasizes sustainability, community self-determination and regional self-reliance.'
www.planetdrum.org

-Rocky Mountain Institute - Snowmass, Colorado.
'Organization dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the general field of sustainability, with a special focus on energy.'
www.rmi.org.

-Haenke, David. "Organizing a Bioregional Congress: A How-To Manual".
Provides necessary steps and reasons for creating a bioregional congress. A good reference and starting point for anyone interested in implementing bioregionalism in politics.
http://www.bioregionalcongress.org/howto/howto.htm

This link is a map of the bioregional pattern language. Mind-map: Pattern Language of Conservation Communities.
http://www.i4at.org/i4atgif/patternlanguage.html


Natural Capitalism

NaturalCapitalism.org

Online Article written by Paul Hawken on Natural Capitalism
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1997/03/hawken.html

Ecological Economics

-International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics (IJEES) - http://www.ceser.res.in/ijees.html

-The Gund Institute of Ecological Economics
http://www.uvm.edu/giee

-The International Society for Ecological Economics
http://www.ecoeco.org/

-In-depth analysis of policy and research
http://www.fs.fed.us/eco/s21pre.htm

-New Zealand Centre for Ecological Economics
http://www.nzcee.org.nz/ Nature's Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment

Social Enterprises

-Great informational guide
http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/page.aspx?SP=1345

-A social enterprise website whose mission is to create micro enterprises based on appropriate technology, renewable energy, and sustainable development in communities internationally. http://www.thesustainablevillage.com/servlet/display/microenterprise

Community Based Enterprises

Sustainable Micro-enterprises

http://www.microbiz.org/SB1156FactSheet.pdf
http://www.dainet.org/enterprise/index.htm

Alternative Currencies

-Comprehensive Site listing all organizations
http://www.communitycurrency.org/resources.html#LCWS

Organizations

-Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) Building long-term economic empowerment and prosperity in communities through local business ownership, economic justice, cultural diversity and a healthy natural environment.
http://www.livingeconomies.org/

-The Natural Step (TNS)
A framework grounded in natural science that serves as a guide for businesses, communities, educators, government entities, and individuals on the path toward sustainable development.

-Co-op America
Co-op America is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1982. Their mission is to harness economic power—the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace—to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. http://www.coopamerica.org/

-Community Wealth
Our goal is to provide you with the web’s most comprehensive and up-to-date information resource on state-of-the-art strategies for democratic, community-based economic development.
http://www.community-wealth.org/

-Ecotrust's Conservation Economy FrameworkA framework for developing a conservation economy
http://www.conservationeconomy.net/local_economies.html

-Redefining Progress
Works with a broad array of partners to shift the economy and public policy towards sustainability
http://www.rprogress.org/

-The Home Town Advantage Reviving Locally-Owned Business - From the New Rules Project

-SectionZ Chock-full of comics and fully footnoted, SectionZ presents the big ideas that are making our economy safe for people and nature.

-Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: Challenging Corporate Power, Asserting the People's Rights
Abolish Corporate Personhood Organizing Packet: This organizing packet is designed to help you join with others to Abolish Corporate Personhood. This is an opportune time to build coalitions and public support in communities all over the country around the notion that only human beings should govern. Corporations have no “business” impersonating us!
Local Economy Community Initiatives

Sustainable Connections Sustainable Connections is a member-based business network establishing and supporting a local living economy that sustains itself, our community and a healthy environment.

Sustainable Business Network of Portland The Sustainable Business Network of Portland (SBNP) is a nonprofit network of local triple-bottom-line businesses and social entrepreneurs. We believe that local businesses play a key role in shaping our community and making it a good place to live and work.

Local First Utah
Grassroots Support for Locally Owned, Independent Businesses: Local First Utah is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the character of our community through promotion of locally owned, independent businesses.

Sustainable Business Education

Bainbridge Graduate Institute
BGI is pioneering a graduate curriculum for sustainable business education that infuses social and environmental responsibility into every course – not just electives but all required courses as well. They train students with the leading sustainability case studies, best practices, models, and business management tools.

Green Mountain College
Green Mountain offers an accredited M.B.A. that emphasizes sustainable business practices. Their program reflects the growing trend among successful companies to focus on the triple bottom line, seeking competitive advantages through practices that are socially responsible and environmentally sound. Now offering an online, accredited distance learning MBA in Sustainable Business.

Sustainable Investing

Social Investing Forum Has referrals of a directory of advisers and plannerswww.socialinvest.org

Co-op Americawww.coopamerica. Dedicated to addressing social and environmental problems.

The Citizens Fundwww.citizensfund.com Has the largest/most detailed free database of social info on the Web

The Council on Economic Prioritieswww.cepnyc.org Rates companies on their record of environmentalism, treatment of women and minorities, working conditions, charitable donations, family benefits and community outreach.

Good Money and Green Moneywww.goodmoney.com Links to lists that help in screening companies


Economics Books:

-Natural Capitalism and The Next Economy Both by Paul Hawken

-Small is Profitable

-Steady-State Economics by Herman E. Daly

-For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future by Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr.

-Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age by Michael H. Shuman

-The Small-Mart Revolution by Michael Shuman--- Details dozens of specific strategies small and home-based businesses are using to successfully out-compete the world’s largest companies. And it shows how consumers, investors, policymakers, and organizers can effectively revitalize their own communities by supporting local businesses.

-The Ecology of Money by Richard Douthwaite

-Alternatives to Economic Globalization by

-The Social Venture Network Series from Berrett-Koehler Publishers Berrett-Koehler Publishers is partnering with Social Venture Network (SVN) to publish a series of down-to-earth paperback guides that will walk readers through the practical steps of starting and growing a socially responsible business. This series represents the merger of the Berrett-Koehler mission of “Creating a World That Works for All” and Social Venture Network’s commitment to building a just and sustainable world through business.

-Values-Driven Business by Ben Cohen and Mal Warwick

-True to Yourself by Mark Albion

-Marketing that Matters by Chip Conley and Eric Friedenwald-Fishman

-Growing Local Value by Laury Hammel and Gun Denhart.


Magazine

http://www.socialenterprisemagazine.org/


Articles

Local Living Economies: The New Movement for Responsible Business By Judy Wicks, President of the White Dog Cafe and Co-Founder of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies http://thegreatturning.net/PDF/Local%20Living%20Economies%20Judy%20Wicks.pdf

Benefits of Doing Business Locally Benefits to communities and citizens in patronizing local businesses
http://reclaimdemocracy.org/independent_business/local_business_benefits.html

Buying Local and the Circulating DollarOften local business prices are lower than chain stores, and the money you spend there stays in the community. http://www.blueoregon.com/2005/11/buying_local_an.html

Local Ownership Pays Off for CommunitiesFinancial benefits to the community of locally-owned businesses http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/independent_business/local_ownership_pays.html

Top Ten reasons to Think Local - Buy Local - Be Local
From Sustainable Connections, Bellingham, Washington http://www.sconnect.org/thinklocal/why/



Bibliograghy
http://www.conservationeconomy.net/pattern_map/flash/index.html