Author Archives: Julie Norris
Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein
Is it possible to have healthy food without healthy community? Join Charles Eisenstein, visionary speaker and author of Sacred Economics, The Ascent of Humanity, and The Yoga of Eating, for an evening discussing the links between the food we eat, … Continue reading
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Urban Sunshine Garden Class
Come out and learn about the differences in growing organically versus hydroponically. On December 14th at 6pm the experts at Altamonte Springs Urban Sunshine are going to teach us just that. Please join us! This will also be a great … Continue reading
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Sparkle Handmade Festival
Sparkle is back! Your new favorite Local & Handmade Holiday Market is well under way and taking place on December 11, 2011 from 11am- 6pm beside Dandelion Communitea and Florida School of Holistic Living’s Community Garden. There will be live … Continue reading
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Industrial Tour of Amazon Hose Company
As you may have noticed we are celebrating everything local and independent for the holidays! Including our local industry that makes the things we do possible. Amazon Hose and Rubber is a woman-owned local independent business in our community since 1919. They … Continue reading
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Look Local for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
“Cinda Baxter is on a mission: She wants to save America’s small businesses. A little more than two years ago, the Minneapolis-based retail consultant launched the first attack in her battle: The 3/50 Project, a grassroots group that encourages consumers to … Continue reading
Filed under Local Economies, Ways To Co-Create
Indie Power 2010
The Recovery Starts at Home, Tampa, April 8-11th from the American Independent Business Alliance An AMIBA conference is different. It’s likely to be the most interactive conference you’ve attended. Learn from and participate in discussions and panels with Localization Movement … Continue reading
Filed under Local Economies, Politics, Ways To Co-Create
Slow Money: A Fast Growing Idea
Slow Money is the name of a book, a movement, and an idea whose time has come. The subtitle of the book ” investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered” explains the heart of the movement which is only … Continue reading
Filed under Local Economies, Local Food
The dirty tricks behind local-washing: How national corporations are co-opting the idea of “local”
HSBC, one of the biggest banks on the planet, has taken to calling itself “the world’s local bank.” Winn-Dixie, a 500-outlet supermarket chain, recently launched a new ad campaign under the tagline “Local flavor since 1956.” The International Council of … Continue reading
Filed under Local Economies, Local Food, News
Indie producers, meet MOOM
Indie producers unite this Friday at the ungodly hour of 8am for the first meeting of MOOM. (8am, Friday July 10, 2009, Barnies Coffee in Baldwin Park | Facebook event page What is MOOM? Indie producers coming in to talk … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Get Involved, Music
A Locavore’s Fourth: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Really Fresh Produce
The folks at Kitchen Gardeners International might not call it a duty, exactly. But the group — one of the organizations whose efforts led to the planting of a kitchen garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. this spring — argues that … Continue reading
Filed under Farming & Gardening, Local Economies, Local Food
