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Thursday, 08 December 2011 22:51
There's Never Been a Better Time to Go Local
Thank you for visiting our website. I can thank you because you are here. Whether you’ve checked our directory, calendar of events, or visited this blog, we appreciate your interest and hope you’ve continued to discover plenty of useful content in every visit. But within the wide-ranging reach “Buy,” “Act,”…
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Monday, 07 November 2011 19:17
Healthy, Local Energy
Local First Utah Op-Ed Local First Utah’s blog often focuses on the human energy that propels our independent business community. But today I’m going to switch entrepreneurship for concrete kilowatts. You see, Utah’s energy system has some problems. Two of the gravest—air pollution and rapidly rising prices— have local solutions.…
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Sunday, 07 August 2011 20:50
Wall Street Journal: 'Local' Grows on Wal-Mart
Typically, I am inclined to provide a full analysis of an article on the local movement from the perspective of Local First Utah but authors Miguel Bustillo and David Kesmodel do an excellent job presenting the full scope of the trend with in this case with regard to Wal-Mart in…
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Monday, 23 May 2011 14:08
The Economics of Happiness in Review
Commentary: There is a skeptic living inside most of us that regards new or challenging information suspiciously. That skeptic regards a film like The Economics of Happiness rather strictly as a polemic, and proceeds about its business as usual, just doin’ what a skeptic does. But then, maybe our inner…
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011 19:40
Walked this Way: 2nd Annual Neighborhood Business Conference in Review
Getting Started: General Session On paper, Salt Lake City’s 2nd Annual Neighborhood Business Conference “Walk this Way” looks pretty great. Actually, printed on bright kelly green (or is that green-yellow?) with the Seal of Salt Lake faded into the background, it looks fantastic. Credit, here, is due to Kim Louie…
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Monday, 21 February 2011 14:43
Perspectives on the Emotions & Economics of Shopping Locally in Two Parts
PART 1: The Wall Street Journal posted in October, 2010, that the relentlessness of the economic downturn was keeping small business owners from being able to hire new people and spur economic growth. There is nothing about that statement that doesn’t make sense, but its repercussions seem to be far…
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