Values-driven Business

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Values-driven Business

• Economic tendencies towards decentralization
• Technological
• networked info economy
• distributed generation
• miniaturization
• Ecological economic biomimicry / ecosystem
  model of development / peak oil / distribution
  costs
• Social creativity base human-scale

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Community / Small Business
                                                                                                                                 

• The realm of cutting-edge alternatives in almost
  every sector
• Need for new stronger networks
• Local market power based on solid knowledge
• Import substitution
• Regenerative finance
• Necessity of empowering all sections of the
  community
• Community development Plans Indicators

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Localization

• LOIS vs. TINA
• Local First not buy local
• Multipliers
• Employment
• Stability / security
• Peak Oil / Corporate Mobility
• Quality of Life
• Efficiency

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What BALLE Networks Do

• Members of Local BALLE Networks have a direct
  stake in the future of their communities and
  bioregions and include local business owners,
  non-profit leaders, government representatives,
  and engaged citizens.

• Members of Local Networks work together to
• Support the growth and development of
  community-based business
• Encourage local purchasing by consumers and
  businesses
• Create opportunities for business leaders to
  network and share best practices
• Advocate public policies that strengthen
  independent local businesses and farms, promote
  economic equity, and protect the environment

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In order to support our Local Networks, BALLE

• Provides Local Networks with tools, business
  models and other resources
• Maintains an online marketplace of independent,
  community-based businesses
• Links Local Living Economies to share best
  practices
• Promotes Local Living Economies through media,
  public forums, and partnerships
• Develops pilot initiatives to strengthen Local
  Living Economies

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Principles of Local Living Economies

• Living economy communities produce and exchange
  locally as many products needed by their citizens
  as they reasonably can, while reaching out to
  other communities to trade in those products they
  cannot reasonably produce at home. These
  communities value their unique character and
  encourage cultural exchange and cooperation.
• Living economy public policies support
  decentralized ownership of businesses and farms,
  fair wages, taxes, and budget allocations, trade
  policies benefiting local economies, and
  stewardship of the natural environment.
• Living economy consumers appreciate the benefits
  of buying from living economy businesses and, if
  necessary, are willing to pay a price premium to
  secure those personal and community benefits.

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LLE Principles (cont)

• Living economy investors value businesses that
  are community stewards and as such accept a
  'living return' on their financial investments
  rather than a maximum return, recognizing the
  value derived from enjoying a healthy and vibrant
  community and sustainable global economy.
• Living economy media provide sources of news
  independent of corporate control, so that
  citizens can make informed decisions in the best
  interests of their communities and natural
  environment.
• Living economy businesses are primarily
  independent and locally owned, and value the
  needs and interests of all stakeholders, while
  building long-term profitability.

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LLE Businesses

• Source products from businesses with similar
  values, with a preference for local procurement
•  Provide employees a healthy workplace with
  meaningful living wage jobs
•  Offer customers personal service and useful
  safe, quality products
•  Work with suppliers to establish a fair exchange
  
•  Cooperate with other businesses in ways that
  balance their self-interest with their obligation
  to the community and future generations
•  Use their business practices to support an
  inclusive and healthy community, and to protect
  our natural environment
•  Yield a 'living return' to owners and investors

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Local First Campaigns

• Money spent local, stays local
• Local owners are local contributors
• Local owners offer stable employment
• Lower environmental impact
• Tax revenues go further
• Maintain uniqueness

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The Centrality of the Landscape

• The industrial age replaced the natural
  processes of the landscape with the global
  machinewhile regenerative design seeks now to
  replace the machine with landscape.
• John
  Tillman Lyle

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Energy Spatial Organization

• Energy the Landscape
• Eco-infrastructure going with nature
• The Eco-system Model eco-infill
• Integrating the Divided Economy
• Every place a locus of eco-production
• Buildings as producers not just
• consumers of energy