The document discusses how sustainability requires localization. It argues that localization leads to greater accountability, lower carbon footprints, and economic prosperity through keeping money circulating within communities. Specifically, it recommends three rules for local prosperity: maximizing local ownership of businesses, maximizing local self-reliance through things like green energy, and spreading models of businesses that benefit environmental, social, and economic goals. Localization is seen as key to providing for a community's needs now and in the future without preventing other communities from doing the same.

1. 8/22/2011 1 Localization & Sustainability

2. 8/22/2011 2 A Sustainable City:Bellingham, Washington Think Local First Green Power Local Food

3. A Movement for Local Living Economies

4. 8/22/2011 4 Two Meanings of Local

5. 8/22/2011 5 Why Sustainability Requires Local Accountability Political Power Lower Carbon Footprint Global Models

6. 8/22/2011 6 Why Sustainability Requires Local Accountability Political Power Lower Carbon Footprint Global Models

7. 8/22/2011 7 Why Sustainability Requires Local Accountability Political Power Lower Carbon Footprint Global Models

8. 8/22/2011 8 Why Sustainability Requires Local Accountability Political Power Lower Carbon Footprint Global Models

9. 8/22/2011 9 A New Definition of Sustainability The ability of a community to provide for its own needs, present and future, without compromising the ability of other communities to provide for their needs, present and future.

10. 8/22/2011 10 Plus…Local Is Key to Prosperity

11. 8/22/2011 11 Three Rules for Local Prosperity (1) Maximize local ownership of business. (2) Maximize local self-reliance. (3) Spread models of triple-bottom line success.

12. Rule #1:Maximize Local Ownership

13. The Jobs Verdict

14. Harvard Business Review July-August 2010

15. Rule #2:Maximize Local Self-Reliance

16. 'Dead-end' Austrian town blossoms with green energy

17. Hardwick, Vermont

18. Rule #3:Spread Triple-Bottom-Line Business

19. Six Practical Steps

20. (1) Planning: Plug the Leaks

21. Cleveland, Ohio

22. 25% Shift Re-employs 27,000

23. Direct Benefits Each year… …$868 million in wages …$4.2 billion output …$126 million of state and local tax …$127 million lower unemployment

24. Indirect Benefits Tourism Business Magnet Entrepreneurship Unemployment Costs ($127 million) Fiscal Health

25. Other Benefits Environmental Public Health Global Image

26. Other Benefits Environmental Public Health Global Image

27. Other Benefits Environmental Public Health Global Image

28. (2) People: Support Local Entrepreneurs Education & Training Mentorships Incubators

29. (3) Partners: Spread Small-Business Groups Business Alliances Sectoral Networks Global Collaboration (e.g., ICLEI)

30. (4) Purse: Invest Local Microloans Credit Unions Cooperatives Local Stock Markets

31. (5) Purchasing: Buy Local Labels Guidebooks Discount Cards Purchasing Networks

32. (6) Public Policy: Remove Anti-Local Biases Largest 46 Economic Development Programs in 15 U.S. States (Sorted by % Funds Going to Local Business)

33. Choose Wisely

34. Patrick Henry:(with minor edits) “Why stand we here idle? Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains…? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me community or give me death!"

35. For More Information: Michael Shuman 202-669-1220 shuman@igc.org www.small-mart.org www.livingeconomies.org