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* develop Community currencies | |||
* develop community energy schemes | |||
* encourage local and collaborative enterprise | |||
* encourage local purchasing, recycling and sharing via for example skill-sharing schemes and other community resources | |||
* local directories and maps | |||
* ownership surveys and websites promoting local and independent shops and suppliers | |||
* promote local food, via | |||
:* local food challenges such as a 100 mile diet | |||
:* local food directories and maps | |||
:* local food weeks or other food events | |||
:* supporting local farm shops, farmers' markets and pick your own schemes, perhaps encouraging car sharing to these | |||
* support local crafts, such as basketmaking, or crafted (non-plastic) shopping bags which can replace plastic bags | |||
* support local markets, including farmers' markets and WI (Women's Institute) markets | |||
* surveys of the local economy to find out what proportion of spend is local | |||
== Campaigns == | == Campaigns == | ||
Revision as of 07:56, 17 December 2014
Localism as used here is about local needs met locally.
What communities can do
- develop Community currencies
- develop community energy schemes
- encourage local and collaborative enterprise
- encourage local purchasing, recycling and sharing via for example skill-sharing schemes and other community resources
- local directories and maps
- ownership surveys and websites promoting local and independent shops and suppliers
- promote local food, via
- local food challenges such as a 100 mile diet
- local food directories and maps
- local food weeks or other food events
- supporting local farm shops, farmers' markets and pick your own schemes, perhaps encouraging car sharing to these
- support local crafts, such as basketmaking, or crafted (non-plastic) shopping bags which can replace plastic bags
- support local markets, including farmers' markets and WI (Women's Institute) markets
- surveys of the local economy to find out what proportion of spend is local
Campaigns
Why it matters
Resources
Citizens data initiative
See also
- more local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
- Food Sovereignty
- World 5.0
Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Localism (politics), Fiscal localism
External links
References