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.

A variety of projects are discussed including: creating a small-business venture capital fund in New Mexico; launching a community-owned company in Salisbury (MD) called Bay Friendly Chicken; organizing university-government-business collaborations in St. Lawrence County (NY) and in the Katahdin Region (ME) to study opportunities for import replacement; analyzing the impact of devolution in the former Soviet Union for the United Nations Development Programme; preparing a buy-local guide and coupon book for Annapolis (MD); developing a web site (CommunityFood.com) to support marketing by family farmers; serving as a senior editor for a forthcoming Encyclopedia of Community; and building the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).

The E. F. Schumacher Society, named after the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, is an educational non-profit organization founded in 1980. The Society links people, land and community by building local economies.