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Short Circuit – strengthening local economies for security in an unstable world

By Richard Douthwaite 1996



Free download: Short Circuit

Buy the book: Hardcopies 20 Euros inc P & P from the Feasta website

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Summary: this book is not about peak oil per se, but how to re-localise your community’s economy. Highly practical in nature, it gives examples of many different ideas to create trading networks within your local community, so as to cushion yourself against global calamities.

A must-have especially as it’s free online.


Review:

“Richard Douthwaite proposes that each community build an independent local economy capable of supplying the goods and services its people would need should the mainstream economy collapse. He details the financial structures necessary for self-reliance, and describes the techniques already in use in pioneering communities across the industrialised world.â€

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We have had a further discussion on the themes raised by this book here:

Co-operatives, complementary currencies etc as recession proofing