Milwukee's Growing Power sees 25% increase in business in the last 6 months

[underpants]

Cathie Malone and Marguerite Tousignant leave Growing Power in Milwaukee on Friday, Dec. 5, 2008, with food from its market basket program, which sells cheaper fruits and vegetables. Business has increased 25 percent over the last six months.
(AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)

http://www.growingpower.org/
Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities. Growing Power implements this mission by providing hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.

[burythehatchet]

1. every every everything must localize. Finance, food production, energy production

The big challenge will be to develop technologies and processes that support an economy on that scale.

[formercia]

2. Yup.

The days of the vertically integrated corporate monster are numbered.

Economics of scale have turned into destruction on an unprecedented scale.