…retail commercial activity within resilient communities will be growing and in some cases exceeding the activity seen before the depression. The reason? The effort these communities made in building locally viable open markets that promoted the wares of local producers.
"Increasingly, the energy we consume to heat and power our communities, will be produced locally. Unfortunately, many of the strategies we use to produce energy are vulnerable due to specialization. We are too dependent on specific forms of energy and the dedicated equipment used to utilize it. "