1. Active Partners
   Education and Local Development
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1996
   Discusses the crucial role of schools as mediators between national and international trends and community initiatives towards sustainable development.
2. The Breakdown of Nations
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1957
   Kohr maintains that throughout history, people who have lived in small states are happier, more peaceful, more creative and more prosperous. He argues that virtually all our political and social problems would be greatly diminished if the world's major countries were to dissolve back into the small states from which they sprang.
3. Catch your dreams - utopia is possible!
   While Marinaleda has its flaws, it reminds us that alternative economic models are not only possible, they already exist.
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   Amid Spain's general depression, Marinaleda - an Andalucian town sometimes dubbed the 'communist utopia' - is bucking the moribund trend with a heady mixture of direct action, community-level democracy, cooperation and mutual aid.
4. Cities and the Wealth of Nations
   Principles of Economic Life
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1984
   Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it.
5. Community Profit
   Community Based Economic Development in Canada
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1983
   Pell and Wismer look at seven community owned and controlled businesses that reinvest their profits back into their local communities. Resource for community groups, co-ops, credit unions, social organizations, and individuals interested in new approaches to economic development.
6. The contradictions and limits of localism
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   Can co-ops and transition towns transform the world? The author of No Local explains why local counter-institutions won’t lead to revolutionary change.
7. Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2013
   Doussard demonstrates that the decline in wages and working conditions is anything but the unavoidable result of competitive economic forces. Rather, he makes the case that service sector and other local-serving employers have boosted profit with innovative practices to exploit workers that go far beyond wage cuts.
   
8. Exploring Your Neighbourhood
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1984
   A guide for children to learn more about their neighbourhoods.
9. How People Get Power
   Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
10. The 100-Mile Diet
    A Year of Local Eating
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    
11. Local currency
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A currency not backed by a national government (and not necessarily legal tender), and intended to trade only in a small area. This amounts to a formalization of the barter system, a useful tool for raising awareness of the state of the local economy.
12. Local Exchange Trading Systems
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Local, non-profit exchange networks in which goods and services can be traded without the need for printed currency.
13. Local Places In the Age of the Global City
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
14. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
    A Healthier Planet
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
15. Perspectives on Communities
    A Community Economic Development Roundtable
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Essays describing various aspects of community economic development, including technology, human resources, financing and organizational structure.
16. A Question of Place
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    Global capitalism relentlessly displaces people and abandons places because it views local communities, cities, and even nations as inconveniences in the path of progress. Place-consciousness, on the other hand, encourages us to come together around common, local experiences and organize around our hopes for the future of our communities and cities. While global capitalism doesn't give a damn about the people or the natural environment of any particular place because it can always move on to other people and other places, place-based civic activism is concerned about the health and safety of people and places.
17. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
18. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
19. Small is Beautiful
    A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
20. A Third Way: Community Economic Development
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    Written to assist those individuals and groups interested in furthering community economic development (CED) in Ottawa. Features a directory of CED businesses in Ottawa and 3 case studies of CED businesses.
21. A Zapatista 'Seminar' in Chiapas
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas, famed colonial center of the southern state of Chiapas, over a thousand people from all over Mexico and beyond are attending a weeklong seminar "Critical Thinking Confronting the Capitalist Hydra." It was conceived and organized by the Zapatistas, the Chiapas-based armed insurgency.

Experts on Local Economies in the Sources Directory

1. International Forum on Globalization
2. World Bank