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28 Feb 12
Simon Gough“@davidbarrie Re-localization: about locals, about people who like being in 1 place & interacting with neighbors @RWW http://t.co/oNWYfhxY”
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11 Nov 08
danthe economic crash as a chance to get our house in order.
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13 Oct 08
Andy BrudtkuhlRe-localization is about locals. It is about people who like being in one place and interacting with neighbors. This does not make it a closed world. Local shopkeepers/restaurants/cafes welcome the stranger/traveler/tourist with their credit card. Realtors, plumbers and all kinds of small businesses welcome the newcomer, who may put down roots here and become a regular customer.
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28 Apr 08
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22 Mar 08
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People increasingly look for reasons to avoid traveling, knowing we will get crowds, intrusive security, a bland sameness everywhere, crumbling infrastructure that could be dangerous and to top it all a smidgeon of guilt about our carbon footprint. When travel looks like fun, it is “off the beaten track”,
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The work from home generation increasingly takes a world without commuting to Dilbert cubicles for granted;
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Consumers increasingly value local and hand-made as special, for which they are willing to pay a premium; consumers want the opposite of mass-produced.
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Taken together, these trends are being referred to as re-localization. An alternative name is Local 2.0. The difference is subtle but real.
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The big focus is on location based services.
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12 Mar 08
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11 Mar 08
Howard SilvermanWe have now passed the high water mark of this long distance,
mass culture; the trend now is towards “re-localization”, where we are
less dependent on the two dominant grids of the 20th Century - electric
grid and interstate highways - as we rely incr -
10 Mar 08
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