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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 [...]

New Book Explores Complexities of Rural Canada

Published by Nelson Education, Rural Planning and Development in Canada is the first book of its kind to connect topics such as public policy, government and governance, rural livelihoods, landscape, land-use issues, food security, organizational and institutional development, and rural community development together.
“It’s an important topic,” says Prof. David Douglas, President of the Canadian Rural [...]

Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009

November 16 to 22 marks Global Entrepreneurship Week around the world!
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) aims to connect youth to entrepreneurship through local, national, and global activities designed to help them explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.
Find out more about GEW here.

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