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• “Main Street Can Fund Climate Action,” Newsweek, with Mark Sommer, August 19, 2021
• “The Quiet Revolution in Community Finance,” Nonprofit Quarterly, November 18, 2020

• “Global to Local: Who Has the Map,” Local Futures World Localization Day panel discussion, with Judy Wicks and Richard Heinberg, June 20, 2021
• Juneau Economic Development Council Alaska Innovation Summit, Keynote Presentation, April 8, 2021, and Summit Roundup/Key Takeaways, April 9, 2021
• “Sustainable Resolutions for 2021,” SouthEast Michigan Sustainable Business Forum, March 17, 2021
• “The ABCs of Local Investment,” Neighborhood Associates and Community Wealth Builders, February 25, 2021
• “Reboot, Revitalize and Rebel: Why the Future of Montgomery County Depends on Small Businesses,” Montgomery County Small Business Association, February 24, 2021
• “A Checklist for Neighborhood Local Investment Champions,” The Next Egg, February 24, 2021
• “Rebuilding Better – Local Investment Networks and the Post-COVID Economy,” TwispWorks, January 27, 2021
• “Building Local Economies,” Revalue Investing, December 8, 2020
• “Cutting Edge Local Investment Opportunities,” The Climate Economy Education Inc., November 17, 2020
• Women Shaping the New Economy Virtual Seminar, California Women’s Business Centers, October 30, 2020
• “Supporting the Local Economy,” The Climate Economy Education Inc., October 26, 2020
• “Rebooting Your Economy After COVID” webinar, The Local Crowd Monadnack, October 15, 2020
• “Building Local Economies,” Ashland Works, October 13, 2020
• “Using Pension Funds to Bolster Your Coop and Community,” 2020 Co-op Power Annual Climate Justice Summit, October 4, 2020
• Webinar on “Building Local Economies, Sustainable Otsego, September 16, 2020
• Money Answers Show live interview, September 14, 2020
• School for Humanity podcast, September 8, 2020
• Mastering Your Money radio show, with Ed Fulbright, NPR station MNCU, August 23, 2020
• The Dave Pamah Show, “How to Beat a Down Economy,” August 19, 2020
• Beyond50 Radio Show, with Daniel Davis, “How to Beat a Down Economy—and Revive Main Street—by Putting Your Money to Work Locally,” August 6, 2020 
• North Carolina Business Council virtual roundtable, “How to Sustain Small Businesses During Economic Crisis,” July 23, 2020
• Village Well Online Workshop, “The New Local – Building Resilient and Regenerative Places,” July 22, 2020
• TheNextEgg.org webinar, “The 12 Best Local Investments—and 8 Ways You Can Find Them,” July 21, 2020
• Progressive Radio Network All Together Now Show, “How to Put Your Money Where Your Life Is,” interview by Ellen LeCain, July 17, 2020
• Las Cruces City Council, “Economic Development Best Practices,” July 13, 2020 (Las Cruces Sun News article)
• Schumacher Center for a New Economics, with Judy Wicks, Jul 9, 2020
• Resilient Futures podcast, with Global Strategist Larry Quick, “Straight Talk in the COVID Economy: Local Community Economies,” July 2, 2020
• Future Seeds Podcast, “Your Future is Local,” July 2020
• School for Startups Entrepreneurship Radio Interview
• Yale School of Management Exchange, “Regenerative Finance:A Path to Economic Justice,” with Janice Shade, Founder, The Initiative for Capital, June 29, 2020
• American Voice Radio, Financial Survival Show, June 23, 2020
• Local Futures Economics of Happiness, World Localization Day, June 21, 2020
• “Making the Most for Main Street: A Discussion About Strong Local Economies,” Confluence Philanthropy 3rd Annual Advisors Forum and Climate Summit, June 2, 2020
• Connecticut Sustainable Business Council, “How to Invest Locally for COVID Reconstruction,” May 28, 2020
• Saskatchewan Economic Development Alliance Webinar, “Recovery Strategies for Long-Term Resilience,” May 28, 2020
• Climate Economy Action Network Metro East Region Webinar, “Community Resilience Through Local Investment and Funding Strategies,” May 27, 2020
• Canadian Urban Institute City Talks Webinar, “Cities in the Time of COVID-19: How Will We Bring Back Our Mainstreets,” May 19, 2020
• Author/Speaker/Radio Host Ellen Brown’s “It’s Our Money” show, “Time to Think Hard about Local Investment,” April 20, 2020

• Local Dollars, Local Sense:  How to Move Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity (Chelsea Green, 2012).
• The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (Berrett-Koehler, 2006)
• Encyclopedia of Community (Sage, 2004) (senior co-editor)
• Local Rights and Global Wrongs:  The Legality of Municipal Foreign Policies (forthcoming)
• Going Local:  Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age (Free Press, 1998; paperback by Routledge, 2000)
• Towards A Global Village (London:  Pluto, 1994).
• Technology for the Common Good (Washington: IPS, 1993) (co‑ editor).
• Conditions of Peace:  An Inquiry (New York:  Talman, 1992) (co‑editor).
• Security Without War:  A Post‑Cold War Foreign Policy  (Boulder: Westview, 1993) (lead co‑author).
• Citizen Diplomats:  Pathfinders in Soviet‑American Relations (New York: Continuum, 1987) (co-author).

Book Chapters

• “The Competitiveness of Local Living Economies,” in Daniel Lerch, ed.,  The Post-Carbon Reader (Chelsea Green, 2010).
• “Relocalizing Business,” in Eric Assadourian, ed., Worldwatch State of the World 2010 (Norton, 2010).
• “Local Living Economies,” in The Encyclopedia of Sustainability (Great Barrington, MA:  Berkshire, 2010)
• “Reshaping Communities for Rural Development & Food Systems,” in Sustainable Economic Community Development (Kellogg Foundation).
• “Foreword,” in Fran McManus & Wendy Rickard, eds., Cooking Fresh from the Mid-Atlantic (New Jersey:  NOFA, forthcoming).
• “Foreword,” in Green Buying Guide for the Northeast (Mothers & Others, 1999).
• “Foreword,” in Fran McManus, ed., Eating Fresh from the Organic Garden State (New Jersey:  NOFA, 1997).
• “Ten Steps to Community Self-Reliance,” in Trent Schroyer, ed., A World That Works (New York:  Bootstrap, 1997).
• “Lilliputian Power: A World Economy As If Community Mattered,” in Marcus Arruda, John Cavanagh, and Daphne Wysham, eds., Beyond Bretton‑Woods (London: Pluto Press, 1994).
• “Introduction,” in Richard Caplan and John Feffer, eds., State of the Union 1994 (Boulder: Westview, 1994).
• “A Separate Peace Movement,” in Michael Shuman & Julia Sweig, eds., Conditions of Peace:  An Inquiry (New York: Talman, 1991).
• “Participatory Peace Policies,” in Chester Hartman & Dan Smith, eds., Paradigms Lost (London:  Pluto Press, 1991).
• “Participatory Foreign Policy,” in Dan Levitan, ed., Horrendous Death, Health, and Well‑Being (New York:  McGraw‑Hill, 1990).
• “Effectiveness of the New Diplomats,” in Craig Comstock and Don Carlson, eds., Citizen Summitry (New York:  St. Martin’s Press, 1986) (co‑author).
• “Acting Globally through Your Locality,” in Citizen Summitry, ibid.

• Growing the Berea (KY) Economy from the Inside Out (City of Berea, 2012), along with a dozen similar economic-leakage analyses in places noted earlier.
• The 25% Shift:  The Benefits of Local Food for North East Ohio (Park Works, 2010) (senior co-author), along with a half-dozen similar food studies in places noted earlier.
• Community Food Enterprise (Wallace Center, 2010) (senior co-author).
• Buy Annapolis:  A Guide to Locally Owned Business (ProgressivePubs, 2002).
• Rebuilding Effective Government:  Local-Level Initiatives in Transition (United Nations Development Programme, 2001), (co-editor).
• Chesapeake Friendly Chicken: Reinventing the Delmarva Poultry Industry (Chesapeake Bay Foundation, December 2000).
• Financing A Community-Friendly Food System (Kellogg Foundation, 2000).
• Urban Agriculture, Greenprint #1 (Village Foundation, September 1999).
• 111 Visionary Program Officers:  A Who’s Who of Progressive Foundations (ProgressivePubs, 1999).
• Progressive Directory of Organizations in Washington (Progressive Resources, 1997).
• Community‑Based Development Initiatives (Hague: Towns and Development, 1992).
• Having International Affairs Your Way:  A Five‑Step Briefing Manual for Citizen Diplomats (CID, January 1986).
• Living without Harvard:  A Critique of the Harvard Nuclear Study Group”  (CID, November 1983).
• Building Municipal Foreign Policies:  An Action Handbook , Center for Innovative Diplomacy, 1987.
• Pacific Northwest Model Energy Plan, Natural Resources Defense Council, 1981 (co‑author).

• “Local Stock Exchanges and National Stimulus,” in Community Development Investment Review (SF Federal Reserve), 5:2, 2009, pp. 81-84.
• “Profits for Justice” (with Merrian Fuller), The Nation, 24 January 2005, pp. 13-21.
• “The End of Globalization?”  Utne Reader, Summer 2002.
• “My Fellow Lefties:  Stop It with the America-Bashing,” Weekly Standard, 18 February 2002, pp. 13-14.
• “Why I Won’t Sign,” The Progressive, November 2001, p. 27.
• “Amazing Shrinking Machines,” New Village Journal, Issue 2, 2000, pp. 17-32.
• “Who’s Who in Philanthropy:  Lifting the Veil of Secrecy,” Chronicle on Philanthropy, 4 November 1999, p. 73.
• “Community Entrepreneurship,” Shelterforce, September/October 1999, pp. 10-13/
• “Community Corporations:  Engines for a New Place-Based Economics,” The Responsive Community, 3:9, Summer 1999,   pp. 50-57.
• “What’s Wrong with Green Funding in America?,” Orion Afield, Summer 1999, pp. 32-35.
• “Cheesehead Economics,” Yes!  Journal of Positive Futures, Spring 1999, pp. 30-31.
• “Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age,” Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter, January-February 1999, pp. 1-7.
• “Food for Thought:  Buying Local Makes Good Economic Sense,” Newsletter of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, Winter 1999,  p. 3.
• “Progressive Philanthropy Should Cast a Wider Net,” Chronicle on Philanthropy, 5 November 1998, plus follow-up letters (Dec. 3 and Dec. 17) and author’s reply (Jan. 14).
• “Going Local:  Devolution for Progressives,” The Nation, 12 October 1998,  pp. 11-15.
• “Cheesehead Economics and Local Ownership,” Orion Afield, Autumn 1998, p. 17.
• “Why Progressive Funds Give Too Little to Too Many,” The Nation, 12/18 January 1998, plus letters in March 23 issue.
• “Force for Peace,” The Nation, July 17/24 1995, p. 77.
• “GATTzilla v. Communities,” Cornell International Law Journal, Winter 1995.
• “Local Foreign Policy v. Courts,” Foreign Policy, Spring 1992.  Response to letters in Autumn 1992 issue.
• “What the Founders Really Intended,” Intergovernmental Perspective, Summer 1990.
• “Grantees Bill of Rights,” Foundation News, March‑April 1989.
• “Alternative Security,” In Context, January 1989 (co‑ authored with Hal Harvey).
• “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally,” Nuclear Times, May‑June 1987.
• “Soviet‑American Citizen Exchange Initiatives,” Nuclear Times, November‑December 1986.
• “Local Foreign Policies,” Foreign Policy, Winter 1986‑ 87.
• “The Environmental Catastrophe of Nuclear War,” Not Man Apart, December 1983 (co‑authored with Jim Harding).
• “The Mouse that Roared,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 1981.  Also see “Response” in April 1981 issue.

• 2006: Bronze Prize for Best Business Book, Independent Publishers’ Association
• 1988: Public Service Award, San Francisco State Univ.
• 1987-90: Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellow
• 1986: MacArthur Foundation Research & Writing Fellow
• 1981: Eugene Rabinowitch Essay Award for “How to Prevent Nuclear War” (best of 800 submissions)
• 1980: Hilmer Oehlmann Award for Legal Brief Writing, Stanford Law School