The Small-Mart Revolution

The Small-Mart Revolution

Sep 23 2006

Author, attorney and economist Michael Shuman describes how small, local businesses are emerging as the most effective means of building community prosperity, creating opportunity and building a good quality of life.

He and Bill McKibben are co-authors of the new book "The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition" that describes how small businesses provide a better quality of life to many more people than we knew. Small businesses offer people the chance to contribute to their communities in so many fundamental and unexpected positive ways: by buying from locally-owned businesses - or by owning a local business - both are "Voting with Your Money"!

Produced by: Pierre Terre, 9/23/2006 Language: English Run Time: 29 min. 0 sec. Story Level 2 = Children may need to ask their parents about the meaning of the Story CC Developing Nations This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Developing Nations license.

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