THE RURBAN FRINGE

Save Your Local Economy

What are three local businesses you would hate to lose from your community?  Got them in your mind?  Great.  Okay, now commit to spending $50 amoung those three places each month.  Ta-da!!  You’re saving your local economy!
Sounds simple, doesn’t it?  It is … and all it takes is you.
A growing movement called the 3/50 project [...]

Women Needed To Help Shape Strong Public Policy

According to a recent statistic … if women business owners were their own country, they would be the 5th largest GDP in the world.* 
The finer points of this statement are somewhat debatable, I’m sure, but it raises an interesting point … if women are such a force to be reckoned with, how can we bring them into fuller [...]

The Rurban Fringe ‘Eat Local’ Challenge: Summary

Wow.  It’s been 8 weeks since the close of my ‘eat local’ challenge … plenty of time to digest (heh, heh – no pun intended) what it meant for me, personally, to become involved in the debate.
I’ve learned … it is a debate. 
Eating local is a privilege.
I took for granted the opportunity I had to choose [...]

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