Businesses

# BUSINESSES

Locally-owned businesses are often seen as the beneficiaries of localization efforts, but they also have an active role to play. Choices they make, for example, about the products they sell, the energy they use, and the waste they create can either support local well-being, or further degrade it. By making those choices more transparent, localization makes businesses more accountable, enabling us to reward those that make good decisions and avoid those that don’t.

* [ ] Start a "Buy Local" campaign.Expand Action

* [ ] Support local farms through your food purchases.Expand Action

* [ ] Start a community bank.Expand Action

* [ ] Start a community composting project.Expand Action

* [ ] Start or join a small business loyalty program.Expand Action

* [ ] Participate in local business alliances.Expand Action

* [ ] Share business resources and services.Expand Action

* [ ] Ship goods long-distance by sailboat.Expand Action Create a community coworking space.Expand Action * [ ] Create a zero-waste business.Expand Action

* [ ] Start a worker-owned cooperative.Expand Action

* [ ] Transition to a worker-owned cooperative.Expand Action

* [ ] Start a food cooperative.Expand Action

* [ ] Divest from destructive industries.Expand Action

* [ ] Use cargo bikes and bike couriers.Expand Action

* [ ] Policy action: Stop big banks from financing destruction.Expand Action

* [ ] Policy action: Eliminate single-use plastic.