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14 Feb 2011

An Interview with Michael Shuman: if we’re serious about localisation, “all of us have to go to Business School”…

I was honoured last week to be able to interview Michael Shuman, who has long been one of pioneers of thinking on the question of localisation.  It was a fascinating conversation…

Can you tell us about your work and what you do, for those unfamiliar with that…

Right now my formal job portfolio is split 50/50 between BALLE, the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, and another for profit called Cutting Edge Capital.  BALLE is a non-profit founded about 10 years ago, which is building networks of local businesses through North America and I do research and economic development activities for them.  Cutting Edge Capital is really working with small businesses and communities to help them figure out ways of creating more local investment solutions. 

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11 Feb 2011

The Intergalactic Health and Safety Inspectorate 2

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Categories: General, Gort & Klaatu cartoons


10 Feb 2011

Transition Lancaster’s Potato Day!

Transition City Lancaster did one too!

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Categories: Community Involvement, Diversity, Food, Great Reskilling, Localisation


10 Feb 2011

Transition Stroud’s Potato Day

Here’s a lovely film about what looked like a great event….

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9 Feb 2011

New clever social networky button things added….

We just upgraded WordPress on this site to v3.0.5, and you may notice some impressive looking new buttons at the bottom of each post.  Simon who does the technical stuff for TransitionCulture told me “I’ve added a better social media plugin for you, you’ll see just below each post there are now facebook, tweet and share buttons. They also show how many people have shared that post”.  Not being someone who uses Facebook myself, I have no idea what a Facebook button, or a ‘share’ button actually do, but I’m assuming that if you do, you’ll be going “wow, cool”, and if you don’t then hey, join the club.

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Categories: General