LANCASTER, Pa. - Attorney and economist Michael Shuman will discuss "Local First: Practical Strategies for Renewing Energy and Economy" on Wednesday, April18 at 7:30 p.m. in Franklin & Marshall's Stahr Auditorium, Stager Hall. The talk, sponsored by the Susquehanna Sustainable Business Network and the Center for Liberal Arts and Society, is free and open to the public.
Shuman is Vice President for Enterprise Development for the Training & Development Corporation (TDC) of Bucksport , Maine . He has written, co-written, or edited six books, including, most recently, Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age (Free Press, 1998). He has written more than 100 on community economics, federalism, foreign policy, and philanthropy for periodicals such as The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, Foreign Policy, Parade, New York Times, The Nation, and Chronicle on Philanthropy.
Shuman also has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, such as the Lehrer News Hour and NPR's Talk of the Nation, and is a periodic commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. In recent years, Shuman has promoted the concepts in Going Local through a variety of projects, including: creating a small-business venture capital fund in New Mexico; launching a community-owned company in Salisbury, Md., called Bay Friendly Chicken; organizing university-government-business collaborations in St. Lawrence County, N.Y., and in Maine's Katahdin Region to study opportunities for import replacement; analyzing the impact of devolution in the former Soviet Union for the United Nations Development Programme; preparing a buy-local guide and coupon book for Annapolis (MD); developing a web site (CommunityFood.com) to support marketing by family farmers; serving as a senior editor for a forthcoming Encyclopedia of Community; and building the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). -30- |
