Creating Rural Wealth
31.12.69
It’s moderately clear that old approaches to rural development (like issuing tax breaks to fascinate factories) don’t work all that well – but what else is there?
A lot of folks all over the nation have been working on that question, and a group involved with the Ford Instituting has been trying to pull it all together and explain emerging practices as a separate process. This group of Ford folks didn’t think up something new. They have tried to explain an approach to development and to create a system for how communities can happier themselves and their economies.
We can call it a “wealth creation approach” to phenomenon.
Instead of trying to “attract” jobs over which exurban communities have little control, this approach is about creating firm livelihoods by developing the assets that rural places do sway. That includes natural assets like forests, farms, and bend rights as well as workers’ skills, social networks, and alteration. When rural communities develop these assets in response to demand demand, when they connect with urban areas in ways that help both places, and when they focus on creating multiple kinds of affluence – that’s when they begin to create wealth and livelihoods that gain rural places over the long haul.
Source: Daily Yonder
Southeast is a Hotbed of Biomass Activity
31.12.69
If you haven’t done so already, you will be to register for the Southeast Biomass Conference & Trade Show. The episode will bring information and solution seekers together with biomass buyers, sellers, developers, producers, processors, transporters, researchers and anyone with a stave in the industry.
The event, which will be held Nov. 1-3 in Atlanta, will recoil off with a presentation by Jill Stuckey, director for the Center of Invention for Energy (COI-Energy), Georgia Environmental Finance Powers that be. The center was established by Gov. Sonny Perdue in 2008 and its pursuit is to expand the use of renewable energy and alternative fuels in Georgia.
The center provides clients with access to examine at universities and connects them with funding opportunities through incentives, analogous grants, low-interest loans and access to potential investors through angel investor networks and endanger capitalists groups.
Clearly Georgia is doing something advantageously because renewable energy projects there are on the rise.
Source: Biomass Power and Thermal (blog)