Amy Cortese is an award-winning journalist and a compelling advocate for communities seeking to create a thriving local economy. Scouring the country, Cortese discovers the pioneers who are creating new models for funding locally owned businesses—from Slow Money to “crowd funding” to local stock exchanges.
Recorded at TEDxMaui 2012, held on January 22, 2012 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
If you are interested in learning more about locavesting in Hawaii, check out http://HiLocalExchange.org – mentioned in Amy’s presentation and book. Do also read her book. I use the e-version since there are lots of foot notes and references that I can just click on to get more info.
Also, one of the other seminal thinker/writers in this field, Michael Shuman has just come out with a new book: “Local Dollars, Local Sense”. Amy Cortese’s recommendation is one of the blurbs. It provides a good update to what is going on with the local exchange movement including what we are up to in Hawaii.
Since it was published the JOBSAct has passed! It has both good stuff and bad stuff relative to locavesting. There is an analysis at my blog http://CoolProjectsMaui.com.