Comments on: Why mainstream community economic development? Because it works. http://reconomy.org/why-mainstream-community-economic-development-because-it-works/ Community-led economic change. Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:51:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3 By: Changing the Rules Of The Game To Help Build New Local Economies : Conscious Life News http://reconomy.org/why-mainstream-community-economic-development-because-it-works/#comment-90664 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 04:51:03 +0000 http://reconomy.org/?p=4825#comment-90664 […] Community economic development – Typically the economic development plans of local governments are focused on generating “inward investment”.Community economic development offers a refreshingly different focus, strategy and set of policy req… […]

]]> By: Changing the rules of the game to help build new local economies | VantageWire http://reconomy.org/why-mainstream-community-economic-development-because-it-works/#comment-90657 Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:46:30 +0000 http://reconomy.org/?p=4825#comment-90657 […] Community economic development – Typically the economic development plans of local governments are focused on generating “inward investment”. Community economic development offers a refreshingly different focus, strategy and set of policy req… […]

]]> By: Reconomy Project update, March & April 2013 |  REconomy http://reconomy.org/why-mainstream-community-economic-development-because-it-works/#comment-15761 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:24:38 +0000 http://reconomy.org/?p=4825#comment-15761 […] We’re particularly excited about this Economic Evaluation work as it helps provide the hard evidence in favour of re-localising our economies. Others are busy working to build this evidence base too, for example, Karen Leach of Localise West Midlands recently helped illustrate that Community Economic Development works. […]

]]> By: Graham T http://reconomy.org/why-mainstream-community-economic-development-because-it-works/#comment-11569 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:47:31 +0000 http://reconomy.org/?p=4825#comment-11569 Great work Karen. Derby Carbon Initiative is doing its best to mainstream this sort of sustainable resilient economic thinking by engaging with local authorities and the local LEP (known as D2N2).

LEPs, being new and supposedly engaging with businesses, councils, NGOs like chambers of commerce etc, represent an opportunity (39 of them around the country), but the 20th Century-minded folk involved with them, who don’t yet realise that the future is resource-constrained and climate impacted, may take some persuasion of your/our approaches !

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