Category: Local Economy

  • the communities we serve

    the communities we serve

    The last delivery of fresh goods arrived at the Burnham Co-op yesterday, apparently the price markdowns start on Thursday. The store closes in 3 days time, on Saturday at 10pm. Then there’s nothing until Sainsbury’s open a store here in “October” (no date specified). The stock started being run down a few weeks ago. Now,…

  • Take Back Control

    Take Back Control

    EDF group is Électricité de France S.A., a French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state. There was a point in time when conservative voices thought this kind of important national infrastructure should be owned by the British state on behalf of the public, with any profits remaining in the United Kingdom.…

  • Community Wealth Building

    This morning I’ve been thinking about the ‘Preston Model’ and how this model of ‘new municipalism’ might inform bioregional praxis – with special attention to how it might work out here on the Dengie. In my workshop on bioregionalism at the UK Permaculture Convergence in September  I briefly mentioned the Preston Model as a possible…