Recommended Readings
- Going Local by Michael Shuman
- The Hometown Advantage by Stacy Mitchell
- Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawkin and Amory and Hunter Lovins
- When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
- Ripples from the Zambezi by Ernesto Sirolli
- Biomimicry by Janine Beynus
- The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs
- Cannibals with Forks by John Elkington
- The Natural Step for Business by Brian Natrass and Mary Altomare
- The Case Against the Global Economy -- and For a Turn Toward the Local, Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith eds. (1996). This collection of essays from around the world describes campaigns to promote local economic strength and stability as well as analyzing larger issues in the global economy and corporatization.
- Better, Not Bigger by Eben Fodor (1999). Demonstrates often overlooked economic costs of growth and sprawl while promoting human-scale development.
- The Economic Renewal Guide by Michael Kinsley (1997). Introduces
the Rocky Mountain Institute's Economic Renewal Program -plans for building
prosperity by thinking outside the conventional development paradigm.
- Making a Place for Community by Williamson, Imbroscio &
Alperovitz (2002). A far-reaching and extensively researched exploration of
politics, economics and strategies for localization.
