HOW TO TAKE POWER Paul Glover author is founder of Ithaca HOURS local currency, Citizen Planners of Los Angeles, Philadelphia Orchard Project, League of Uninsured Voters, Health Democracy, and a dozen more organizations. He also started successful campaigns to prevent highways, shopping malls and suburbanization. These have been the subject of over 2,000 new stories nationally and globally. Author of several books, editor of several newspapers and newsletters, Glover has taught urban studies at Temple University, and now consults for community economic development. __________________________________________________________ "No one in the world has done a better job in defining local solutions-that are simple, empowering, and fun-- for seemingly intractable global problems than Paul Glover. He offers powerful, proven, and participatory tools for communities to begin solving their piece of the national... crisis." --Michael Shuman, author of "Going Local," "Technology for the Common Good," "The SmallMart Revolution," and other books. He is co-director of the Institute for Policy Studies. “One of our best bioregional writers.” --Kirkpatrick Sale, author of Human Scale, Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision, The Green Revolution, Rebels Against the Future, The Conquest of Paradise, Power Shift, and SDS “[This] is the latest in long list of things he has done that seem too hard for anyone to pull off. He once walked from Boston to San Diego, a trip that took six and a half months. In Ithaca, which is all hills and valleys, he rode his bicycle everywhere, in all weather.” --New York Times “The growth of such exciting new community schemes as Ithaca’s HOURS... Illustrates the way the corporate economy has marginalized so many that these people have erected alternative economic schemes. As masses of people are abandoned to joblessness, these will become key ingredients in survival strategies for hundreds of millions. While creating these survival schemes we must dismantle the powers of the global corporations that have made such changes necessary.” --The Nation
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