Michael Shuman is research director for Cutting Edge Capital in Oakland, economic-development director for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and a fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. An economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur, Shuman has previously authored, coauthored, or edited seven books, including The Small-Mart Revolution (which won a bronze price from the Independent Publishers Association for best business book of 2006) and Going Local (1998). He has led community-based economic-development and local-food initiatives across the country. He has given an average of more than one invited talk per week for twenty-five years throughout the world and has written nearly 100 published articles for publications such as the The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Nation , The Weekly Standard , Foreign Policy , Parade, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. He lives in Silver Springs, Maryland.
Michael H. Shuman's Upcoming Events
Michael Shuman at Boulder Bookstore
1107 Pearl Street , Boulder CO
February 22, 2012, 7:00 pm
Michael Shuman will discuss his new book, "Local Dollars, Local Sense" at the Boulder Bookstore on February 22 at 7:00 PM.
Michael Shuman at Princeton Merchants Association
Carl Fields Center at Princeton University, Princeton NJ
March 13, 2012, 9:00 am
Michael Shuman will teach an all-day workshop titled, "Unlocking the Economic Power of Local: Creating Economic Strength and Resilience through Community Investing," at the Princeton Merchants Association Educational Workshop Series on March 13.
$75 per person for PMA member businesses • $100 per person for non-members Lunch is included in the registration fee.
Whether your food business is a for-profit, a co-op, or nonprofit, chances are good it’s way underfunded…or worse. Banks won’t extend loans. Wealthy “accredited” investors prefer big companies. Foundations like the idea of PRIs better than the practice. Where else can you turn? Well…there’s the other 99% of the public that’s “unaccredited” and historically regarded as off-limits to local business…
Drawing from his new book, “Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street,” Michael Shuman will explain a dozen, low-cost strategies local businesses are using to secure new capital from the general public. He will talk about specialized bank CD programs, prepurchase deals, new-generation cooperatives, internet sponsorship sites (like Kickstarter), P2P lenders (like Prosper and Kiva), community lending circles, investment clubs, municipal bond schemes, local revolving loan funds, direct public offerings, and local stock exchanges. He also will report on the latest news of a crowdfunding reform bill – sponsored by Tea-Party Republicans but endorsed by the Obama Administration – that is working its way through Congress and could literally make trillions of dollars of new capital available to local business.
Michael Shuman at 2012 Oregon Governor's Conference on Tourism
Red Lion Hotel on the River, 909 North Hayden Island Drive, Portland OR 97217
March 19, 2012, 8:30 am
Michael Shuman will speak at the 2012 annual Oregon GovernorÂ’s Conference on Tourism in Portland, Oregon on March 19.
Michael Shuman at the "Economics of Happiness" Conference
David Brower Center, Berkeley CA
March 23, 2012, 12:00 pm
Local Dollars, Local Sense author Michael Shuman will join other Post Carbon Institute Fellows Bill McKibben and Richard Heinberg at the Economics of Happiness Conference in Berkeley, California.
Energy analyst and physicist Amory Lovins will visit Phillips Academy on Monday, February 13 to discuss his new book “Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era.” The talk will begin at 8 p.m. in Kemper Auditorium on Chapel Avenue on the campus of Phillips Academy. This event is free and open to the public.
A proponent of environmentally safe and sustainable energy sources, Lovins's new book maps out a “new energy era” for the United States, one in which the private sector would lead a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy forms. According to the New York Times, “by most accounts, [Lovins] remains the best known freethinker in the energy and environmental policy world.”
According to Lovins, the U.S. could win the global clean energy race, securing a 2.6-fold bigger economy in 2050, with little or no dependence on oil, coal or nuclear energy. The transition, he argues, requires no new inventions, no act of congress, would cost $5 trillion less in net present value than business-as-usual, and be led by business for profit.
“The prevalent and incorrect assumption is that climate protection is expensive,” he has said. “All of our experience tells us it is a highly profitable enterprise.”
The MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” winner has advised firms and governments in more than fifty countries, as well as the United Nations. Among his many distinctions, he has been honored with a Mitchell Prize, a Right Livelihood award and the Onassis Foundation's first Delphi Prize in 1989 (considered one of the top environmental awards in the world). In 2009, Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.
Lovins attended Harvard and Oxford universities. After an academic post at Oxford, he became the British representative of Friends of the Earth. He has taught at a number of universities, including as a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, and most recently at Stanford UniversityÂ’s School of Engineering. He is the cofounder, chairman and chief scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy research organization based in Snowmass, Colo.
Amory Lovins at Phillips Exeter Academy
20 Main Street, Assembly Hall , Exeter NH 03833
February 14, 2012, 7:00 pm
Amory Lovins will speak at the Phillips Exeter Academy on February 14 at 7:00 PM. This presentation will be part of the school's O'Boyle Sustainability Lecture Series.
The event is free and open to the public. Amory's new book, "Reinventing Fire," will be available for sale at the event.
(publicity) Woody Tasch Interview with All Sides
All Sides Interview, OH
February 15, 2012, 11:00 am
Woody Tasch will have a 40 minute interview with WOSU AM's "All Sides" on February 15 at 11:00 AM.
Amory Lovins at Yale University
Burke Auditorium, Kroon Hall | 195 Prospect Street, New Haven CT
February 15, 2012, 4:00 pm
Amory Lovins, co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, will be at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies to discuss his book Reinventing Fire on Wednesday, February 15.
Reinventing Fire maps business-led pathways for the U.S. to phase out fossil fuels and win the global clean energy race. Building on Rocky Mountain Institute’s 30 years of research and fieldwork, Lovins contends that by 2050 the U.S. economy (2.6-fold bigger than it is currently) could exist without oil, coal, nuclear energy – or any new inventions. Further, this economy could cost $5 trillion less in net present value than business-as-usual, conservatively valuing all externalities at zero; it could emit 82 percent to 86 percent less fossil carbon than in 2000, and the transition could be led by business for profit with no Act of Congress.
The talk, co-hosted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, begins at 4:00 PM in Kroon HallÂ’s Burke Auditorium at 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, Conn.; it is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in Kroon HallÂ’s Knobloch Environment Center.
Amory Lovins is co-founder, chairman, and chief scientist of Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent nonprofit think-and-do-tank. An advisor to major firms and governments in over 50 countries for the past four decades, he is the recipient of the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, 11 honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, National Design, and World Technology Awards. In 2009, Time named him one of the worldÂ’s 100 most influential people, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers.
For more information on the event, contact Susanne Stahl at 203.432.5594 or Susanne.Stahl@yale.edu.
(publicity) Michael Phillips Interview with Diane Brandon, Naturally Vibrant Living
Naturally Vibrant Living,
February 15, 2012, 4:00 pm
(publicity) Mat Stein Interview with Destiny Survival Radio
Destiny Survival Radio,
February 16, 2012, 11:00 am
Mat Stein will speak to John on Destiny Survival Radio on February 16 at 11:00 AM PT.
(publicity) Mat Stein Interview with Dia Nunez on The H2O Network
THE H2O Network,
February 16, 2012, 3:00 pm
Amory Lovins at Xconomy
Draper Laboratory Hill Building, Cambridge MA
February 16, 2012, 6:30 pm
Dramatically reducing the nation’s hunger for fossil fuels might lower our impact on the environment and increase energy security. But it also could mean disrupting a large part of the foundation of global economies—and it isn’t possible without a dramatic shift in lifestyles and humankind’s entire approach to the planet. That might not seem remotely feasible. But it is just that kind of mind-bending transformation Amory Lovins, cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, has in mind. He believes it is time to take concerted action, and, as Rmi puts it, "speed the transformation from pervasive waste to elegant frugality, from causing scarcity by inattention to creating abundance by design, from liquidating energy capital to living better on energy income."
Enter Reinventing Fire, a major initiative by the Rocky Mountain Institute and a new book by Lovins. We hope you will join us for this special evening as Lovins gets up close and personal in a chat with Flagship Ventures general partner Jim Matheson, and brings us up to date on his latest thinking about energy, the environment, and the economy.
Schedule: Registration & Networking: 6:00 - 7:00 pm Chat: 7:00 - 7:50 pm Networking reception: 7:50 - 8:30 pm
Tickets are transferable but not refundable. To inquire about press registration, email events@xconomy.com.
David Gumpert at Harvard Law School
1563 Massachusetts Ave , Cambridge MA 02138
February 16, 2012, 7:15 pm
Who says movies can't change the world? Or at least the contents of our refrigerators. Last September saw the release of local filmmaker Kristin Canty's documentary Farmageddon, which explored the health benefits of raw milk and the safety regulations restricting its consumption. Now Harvard Law School is hosting a public debate on the issue that will include Fred Pritzker, of the Pritzker & Olson Law Firm and Dr. Heidi Kassenborg, Director, Dairy & Food Inspection Division, Minnesota Department of Agriculture on one side, and David Gumpert, author of The Raw Milk Revolution and Sally Fallon Morell, President of the Weston A. Price Foundation, on the udder, er, other.
Woody Tasch at Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association, Granville Ohio
February 17, 2012, 10:00 am
Woody Tasch will present a pre-conference workshop at the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association on February 17, 2012. The details for this workshop have not yet been finalized.
Michael Shuman is research director for Cutting Edge Capital in Oakland, economic-development director for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and a fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. An economist, attorney, author, and entrepreneur, Shuman has previously authored, coauthored, or edited seven books, including The Small-Mart Revolution (which won a bronze price from the Independent Publishers Association for best business book of 2006) and Going Local (1998). He has led community-based economic-development and local-food initiatives across the country. He has given an average of more than one invited talk per week for twenty-five years throughout the world and has written nearly 100 published articles for publications such as the The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Nation , The Weekly Standard , Foreign Policy , Parade, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. He lives in Silver Springs, Maryland. 
