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Just something I read and liked recently…

The only meaningful counterbalance to corporate globalization is communities. The momentum of globalized trade cannot be stopped, bit it can be redirected. Communities are small enough to be able to understand their own self-interest, yet large enough to be able to access resources and generate efficiencies of scale. When communities are weak, they are inevitably exploited. To take advantage of corporate growth and not be its victims, communities around the world must rapidly increase their strength and ability to organize.

Even more undermining to society is environmental degradation… Lifestyle, international economics, and world politics may have to find new balances. To respond to these challenges, we need more-effective strategies. The most practical and accessible way to shape a collective response is to grow appropriate solutions at the community level that take into account the large and complex forces impinging on them.

From: Just and Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Own Future, by Daniel Taylor-Ide & Carl E. Taylor. John Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Vanessa