<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for While global markets crater, a Vermont town unites around food]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Ariane Lotti http://www.grist.org/article/a-new-vision-of-credit-crunch/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:26:38 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/a-new-vision-of-credit-crunch/1 just some thoughts

excellent post, Tom.

A piece like this is an important step in starting to change the discourse and narrative around this financial crisis that is so focused on loss and inability.

I wonder why this narrative is so lacking and how we as a community committed to sustainability, etc can strategize to make it more of a dominant narrative and so that the people in power support investment in bottom-up community development.

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excellent post, Tom.

A piece like this is an important step in starting to change the discourse and narrative around this financial crisis that is so focused on loss and inability.

I wonder why this narrative is so lacking and how we as a community committed to sustainability, etc can strategize to make it more of a dominant narrative and so that the people in power support investment in bottom-up community development.

]]> Comment #2 by Rebecca T of HonestMeat http://www.grist.org/article/a-new-vision-of-credit-crunch/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:06:20 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/a-new-vision-of-credit-crunch/2 We can do it without them

What's interesting is that this story illustrates that government does NOT need to be involved to spur innovation, local lending, and job creation.  I have seen too many good ideas hindered by government grants because they build their foundation on free money that ultimately disappears.  Instead, when you pull together vision, might, and community investment, you avoid starting with an unsustainable model.  I don't want the government throwing money at our rural communities.  It would be better if they just stopped subsidizing the businesses that are destroying them (i.e. prisons, mountain-top removal mines, nuclear waste depositories, pig CAFOs, etc.)

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What's interesting is that this story illustrates that government does NOT need to be involved to spur innovation, local lending, and job creation.  I have seen too many good ideas hindered by government grants because they build their foundation on free money that ultimately disappears.  Instead, when you pull together vision, might, and community investment, you avoid starting with an unsustainable model.  I don't want the government throwing money at our rural communities.  It would be better if they just stopped subsidizing the businesses that are destroying them (i.e. prisons, mountain-top removal mines, nuclear waste depositories, pig CAFOs, etc.)

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