{"id":135,"date":"2004-02-20T21:02:45","date_gmt":"2004-02-21T04:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smallchangenews.org\/wordpress\/?p=135"},"modified":"2004-02-20T21:02:45","modified_gmt":"2004-02-21T04:02:45","slug":"sustainable-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/02\/20\/sustainable-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--107733256546666812--><\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of local\/global marriage that I&#8217;ve been suggesting can be an alternative to local <i>versus<\/i> global.  More evidence that we need not &#8220;organize&#8221; or &#8220;build&#8221; new, local, sustainable economies from scratch.  We need only to surface what is already happening.  Google is global (and marketplace), but its users are local (and can be responsible):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the Kelsey Group research firm, last year saw a doubling of internet searchers seeking local merchants. One of the popular tools is the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.google.com\/location\">GoogleLocalLocator<\/a> where you search my merchant type and zip code or address &#8211; with links and maps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmeetingdesign.com\/index.php\">SmartMeetingDesign<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the kind of local\/global marriage that I&#8217;ve been suggesting can be an alternative to local versus global. More evidence that we need not &#8220;organize&#8221; or &#8220;build&#8221; new, local, sustainable economies from scratch. We need only to surface what is already happening. Google is global (and marketplace), but its users are local (and can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/02\/20\/sustainable-union\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sustainable Union&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","tag-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}