Building a more local, green and fair economy on the Seacoast
Seacoast Local is a proud member of
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA)
New England Local Economy Network (NELEN)
Small Business Resources
The Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
New Hampshire Innovation and Commercialization
Center (NH-ICC)
Dover Chamber of Commerce
Hampton Chamber of Commerce
Exeter Chamber of Commerce
Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce
Rochester Chamber of Commerce
Somersworth Chamber of Commerce
Seacoast Chamber Alliance
Seacoast Business Expo
SCORE
Green Alliance
Alpha Loft
Seacoast Forward
Local Policy
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)
Civic Economics
Carsey Institute
New Economy Coalition
The American Sustainable Business Council
The Center for the New American Dream
International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
Food (Local Organizations)
Seacoast Eat Local
Seacoast Growers’ Association
Slow Food Seacoast
Slow Food UNH
Chef’s Collaborative
Great Works Regional Land Trust
Granite State FISH
Food Solutions New England
NH Farm to School
UNH Cooperative Extension
NH Community Seafood
Greater Seacoast Permaculture Group
Food (Regional/National Organizations)
Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA)
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Local Investing
LION
No Small Potatoes Investment Club
Slow Money
The Carrot Project
NH Community Loan Fund
Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
RSF Social Finance
Locavesting
Move Your Money
Bank Transfer Day, November 5th
Environment & Sustainability
UNH Sustainability Center
New England Grassroots Environmental Fund
Reconnecting America
350.org
The Gund Institute
Some of our Favorite Books:
Small is Beautiful – A collection of essays by the noted British economist E.F. Schumacher that provides a “study of economics as if people mattered.”
A Sand County Almanac – Essays by environmentalist Aldo Leopold in which he discusses his concept of the Land Ethic – extending the moral boundaries of ethics to include the land, and the animals and plants that grow upon it.
Big-Box Swindle – A detailed study by Stacey Mitchell that identifies the hidden costs borne by society by large retailers and the need for public policies that support smaller, independent businesses.
Deep Economy – An investigation of how smaller-scale sustainable economies offer the promise of greater community and environmental well-being, by the environmentalist and journalist Bill McKibben
Locavesting – A book on the growing interest in local investing and the pioneering local investing models that are popping up around the country, by journalist Amy Cortese
Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity – Local economy pioneer Michael Shuman shows investors, including the nearly 99% who are unaccredited, how to put their money into building local businesses and resilient regional economies-and profit in the process.