Lecture delivered October 27, 2007. In recent years Michael Shuman has been promoting the concepts in Going Local through a variety of projects, including: creating a small-business venture capital fund in New Mexico; launching a community-owned company in Salisbury (MD) called Bay Friendly Chicken; organizing university-government-business collaborations in St. Lawrence County (NY) and in the Katahdin Region (ME) to study opportunities for import replacement; analyzing the impact of devolution in the former Soviet Union for the United Nations Development Programme; preparing a buy-local guide and coupon book for Annapolis (MD); developing a web site (CommunityFood.com) to support marketing by family farmers; serving as a senior editor for a forthcoming Encyclopedia of Community; and building the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).
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