Next ReUrbanism meeting is Aug 30
(Sorry for the short notice.)
- Time: 5:30 p.m. to approx 7:00 p.m.
- Guest speaker: Stacy Jurich, speaking about a new network in Toledo. "Buy Local" Creating a community that is more sustainable both economically and ecologically. Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).
From my notes taken at the February 2007 meeting:
Buy local
- About a buy-local program, John Henry Fullen said Toledo is looking at other cities for ideas, and those findings will be shared in an upcoming ReUrbanism meeting.
BALLE
- Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
- Web site for BALLE is http://www.livingeconomies.org/
- About BALLE
- BALLE is a growing alliance of businesspeople around the US and Canada, who join local BALLE networks dedicated to building local living economies.
- Toledo BALLE group is forming.
- Objective:
- Keep money local
- Local development
- Participating businesses pay a membership fee.
- Toledo BALLE group will seek advice from the Ann Arbor group, which used to be called Living Economy Network but is now named Think Local First.
- Requirement of the Toledo group:
- Needs support from businesses and citizens.
---- end Feb 2007 notes ----
Frogtown Dollars
What about the funky idea of using Frogtown Dollars to help support the 'buy local' concept?
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on Aug 30, 2007 at 01:34:41 pm
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on Nov 13, 2007 at 06:03:04 pm
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