{"product_id":"rescuing-your-local-economy-francis-p-koster-ed-d-9781530496471","title":"Rescuing Your Local Economy: Success Stories for Sustainable Communities","description":"This book is a collection of stories about communities that have made a significant positive impact on their local economy by using easily duplicated strategies you can do in your own town. You can: -Make slight improvements to well established practices, like new business \"incubators\", and change their emphasis, resulting in significantly more bang for the buck. -Use new digital tools to enable groups of small local business people to band together and get large customers. -Make changes to traditional \"gift cards\" and increase local sales. - Increase the amount invested in local business by area residents. -Improve profitability of local companies, reduce lay-offs, and rapidly increase company size by helping companies increase the number of \"worker-owners\". -Repurpose abandoned or underused old factory buildings by simple alterations of the property tax code to allow their use to produce food 12 months a year, locally. - Stem the outflow of community dollars by producing more food and energy locally in ways that both lower costs to the consumer and create local jobs. -Profitably salvage waste from landfills, sewage treatment plants, and abandon buildings. -Break the local \"cycle of poverty\" by improving the quality of local schools, while improving the health of students and lowering crime rates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francis P. Koster Ed D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1530496470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781530496471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.55d","brand":"Francis P. Koster Ed D.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46739040239871,"sku":"9781530496471","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8d72d16b-cd02-4bb8-948e-d154584464e5.jpg?v=1743277026","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rescuing-your-local-economy-francis-p-koster-ed-d-9781530496471","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}