Local First News
Cambridge Local First announces the second edition of it membership directory. CLF is growing daily and is involving businesses in exciting projects.
Worcester Local First held its Premier Business Directory Kick-off Party on February 20 and attracted more than 150 businesses.
In March 2008, The Hank Stolz Experience on WCRN/830 AM aired a live, one-hour roundtable discussion of the Local First phenomenon that's sweeping the nation. The host is Hank Stolz, WCRN talk-show host and program director. The guests are: Laury Hammel of The Longfellow Clubs, BALLE, SBN and more than 20 Local First campaigns; Bill Cavanagh of C.C. Lowell and Worcester Local First; Steve Jones-D'Agostino of SBN and WLF; Rachael Solem of Irving House and Cambridge Local First; and Dan Finn of Pioneer Valley BALLE Network. To hear a 42-minute version (minus the commercials, news, sports and weather), click here.
To view or hear additional newspaper, magazine, TV and radio coverage of Worcester Local First, click here.
The international Business Alliance for Local Living Economies has more than 60 Local First campaigns spread across the U.S. and Canada. To view and visit them, click here.
David Korten, a native and resident of Washington state, is one of the founders of BALLE as well as the author of The Great Turning and other books regarding long-term sustainability, or "seven generations." According to The Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy, "In our every deliberations, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." To hear a talk that Korten gave in March 2007 at the First Unitarian Church in Worcester, in MP3 format, visit David Korten. Note: Because this is a large audio file, download make take a few minutes -- even with a high-speed concection.
