Eight Acupuncture Points for
Transforming Capitalism
I'm just returning from the annual BALLE conference in Oakland. BALLE
(the Business Association for Local Living Economies), is the
fastest-growing network of sustainable and value-based enterprises in North America.
It was founded some fourteen years ago, but the origins of this networked
grassroots movement go back to the 1990s, when Judy Wicks, the founder of the
White Dog Café in Philadelphia, decided to source and manage her café 100
percent locally and sustainably, using socially just practices. People loved it
and it became a legendary success. But instead of turning her winning formula
into a regional or national brand, chain, and eventually an empire, she decided
to reinvest her profits in the health and well-being of her local community.
She set up a foundation through which she taught everything she had learned to
her competitors, using her money to help suppliers upgrade in order to serve
all the cafés and restaurants in the region.
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