Mark Maynard | localism

Is the Bank of Ann Arbor’s “non-local banker campaign” a hypocritical, pointelss mess of faux-localism?

By Mark | October 21, 2012

For the past few months, those of us who live in and around Ann Arbor have been subjected to a relentlessly pervasive advertising campaign featuring a balding, sunken-chested, Clearasil-colored cartoon banker with an often furrowed brow, and standard issue “nerd” glasses. He started showing up on billboards a little over a month ago. At first, [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Marketing, Observations, Uncategorized | Also tagged advertising, advertising campaign, analingus, Bank of America, Bank of Ann Arbor, banking, Banksy, billboards, Bongz And Thongz, Clear Channel, cool, culture jamming, Dustin Krcatovich, Encore Records, FM Dust, GG Allin, Half Ass, hipster, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Iggy Pop, illustration, J.J. Sedelmaier, Jeremy Wheeler, JPMorgan Chase, local business, local economy, localwashing, Mani Osteria, Matthew Altruda, Mayer Hawthorne, Nate Higley, Nike, non-local banker, Saagara, Saturday Night Live, social media, Sonic Lunch, TV Funhouse, VG Kids, viral marketing, Wal-Mart, what's cool and what's not | 112 Comments

The emergence of Local Economy Centers

By Mark | June 6, 2012

I didn’t have an opportunity to meet her at the recent BALLE conference in Grand Rapids, but, as luck would have it, I was able to dial in to a conference call during my lunch hour a couple of days ago, and ask a few questions of Kelley Rajala, the woman who runs the Sonoma [...]

Posted in entrepreneurism, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Retail, Shadow Art Fair, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged alternative currency, Amy's Kitchen, BALLE, Bethesda, biomimicry, Business Allianc, business incubators, California, Cleveland, co-working, Dave Feldman, employee ownership, Evergreen Cooperative, Kelley Rajala, Livability Project, Local Economy Centers, Local Economy Institute, Made Local Marketplace, Maryland, ownership, permaculture, Santa Rosa, Share Exchange, Slow Money, social justice, Sonoma Country Share Exchange, time bank, Transition Town, Transition US | 6 Comments

Zingerman’s: This is Ownership

By Mark | June 4, 2012

The following video, if I’m not mistaken, was produced to coincide with the recent BALLE conference in Grand Rapids, which, to a great degree, revolved around the subject of employee ownership. In this video, Paul Saginaw explains why, ten years after the launch of Zingerman’s Delicatessen, he and his co-founder, Ari Weinzweig, decided upon an [...]

Posted in entrepreneurism, Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized | Also tagged Ari Weinzweig, BALLE, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, business models, liquidity, ownership, Paul Saginaw, scaling, Zingerman's, Zingerman's Community of Businesses | 11 Comments

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