Building Resilient Communities Series (First Program Rescheduled)
RESCHEDULED (due to storm, the March 15 program rescheduled): The first program of a six-part series called “Localize the Economy: Build Resilient Communities” has been moved to Wednesday, March 22 at 6:30 p.m. at Bethany Church in Randolph. The program features the documentary film “The Economics of Happiness” followed by a dialogue with its filmmaker, Steven Gorelick. The award-winning film describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization. Organized by BALE (Building A Local Economy) and co-sponsored by Local Futures, Sustainable Woodstock, Rural Vermont and Vermonters for a New Economy. Funded in part by Sustainable Future Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, Larsen Family Fund, New England Grassroots Environment Fund and Catamount Solar Community Grants. The evening program features delicious light food from the Black Krim Tavern. Free (donations welcome). Info: chris@balevt.org.