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Championing the Local 1 – Building vibrant local economies

This Conversation is aimed at helping community groups realise their ambitions 

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Location: Online

Organisation: Scottish Ecological Design Association

Building vibrant local economies is the first in the CHAMPIONING THE LOCAL series of SEDA Land Conversations.

Scottish Ecological Design Association (SEDA) will explore alternative business models, including co-operatives, social enterprises and employee-owned businesses, and how they can make LVC’s possible, as well as the best scale at which such issues can be addressed – local, regional or national.

At present, Scotland has plenty of micro examples of Inclusive and Democratic Business Models (IDBMs). This talk will look at ways of scaling these up, and rolling them out across the country, in areas such as food, renewable energy and retrofit.

One aim is to highlight the interconnectedness of all these issues, and how thinking about them together brings wider benefits, with different sectors learning from each other.

This Conversation will include inspirational models, using these as a springboard for a broader discussion of the subject, addressing obstacles along the way and how to overcome them.

Championing the Local 1 — Scottish Ecological Design Association

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