April 8, 2008 - The British Columbia division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced earlier this week that Michael Shuman will be the featured guest speaker at their 45th annual convention.

The event, hosted at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Vancouver, B.C., is focused on "Building Sustainable Communities."

Other guest speakers include CUPE National president Paul Moist, CUPE National secretary-treasurer Claude Généreux, Federal New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton, B.C. NDP leader Carole James and BC Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair. — read more 

April 1, 2008 - How can we know if consumer behaviors like recycling are little more than feel-good tools for keeping the public from addressing a lack of environmental accountability at 'the top', asks the Cleveland Free Times reporter Jo Steigerwald?

Reach for a copy of The Small-Mart Revolution, she answers. — read more 

March 31, 2008 - According to Harrowsmith Country Life editor Tom Cruikshank, community economies based on local shops and industries were the norm only a few generations ago, and may again flourish.

Referencing The Small-Mart Revolution, the April 2008 issue of the Canadian magazine features Michael Shuman's localization ideas in the Editor's Note ("Greetings") and a special feature, "The 100-Mile Shopping Diet" by Marlene Bergsma. — read more 

March 20, 2008 - Greenbiz.com's assistant editor Jonathan Bardelline spoke recently with Mary Rick, the program director of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies or BALLE.

Their radio interview about the present and future of local living economies is available online or for download as a podcast on the Greenbiz.com website. — read more 

March 17, 2008 - In Coopersville, Michigan, local businesses are gaining the cutting edge, according to an article in the Grand Rapids Press.

On February 13, members of the Coopersville City Council voted 6-0 to pass a new policy to support the purchase of local goods and services. — read more 

March 17, 2008 - Recent local economic development talks by Michael Shuman are now available online.

On March 10 and 11, Michael delivered a series of talks entitled 'Going Local: Building Sustainable Communities through Entrepreneurship' to practioners and community members in Archbold, Ohio. — read more 

March 12, 2008 - A recent lecture by Michael Shuman is now available for free online. The lecture for the E.F. Schumacher Society, delivered on October 27, 2007, discusses recent efforts to promote the concepts in the book Going Local.

To stream or download the audio file for the lecture from Archive.org's Open Source Audio site, click here. — read more 

February 15, 2008 - Michael Shuman spoke to a crowd of 3000 at the World Conference on Development of Cities, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The conference theme was "Democratic innovation and social transformation for inclusive cities in the 21st century." — read more 

February 11, 2008 - The Wallace Center at Winrock International and the Training & Development Corporation launched today a new initiative entitled Community Food Enterprise: Local Success in a Global Marketplace. The initiative, which will showcase locally-owned food enterprises from around the globe, is a joint funding venture of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, only their second jointly-funded initiative. — read more 

January 28, 2008 - Despite all the hoopla about globalization, the future belongs to all things local, according to Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) keynote presenter, Michael Shuman, author of The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition. — read more