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Michael Shuman is director of research for Cutting Edge Capital, director of research and economic development at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and a Fellow of Post Carbon Institute. He holds an AB with distinction in economics and international relations from Stanford University and a JD from Stanford Law School. He has led community-based economic-development efforts across the country and has authored or edited seven previous books, including The Small Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (2006) and Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age (1998).

In recent years, Michael has led community-based economic-development efforts in St. Lawrence County (NY), Hudson Valley (NY), Katahdin Region (ME), Martha’s Vineyard (MA), and Carbondale (CO), and served as a senior editor for the recently published Encyclopedia of Community. He has given an average of more than one invited talk per week for 25 years throughout the United States and the world.

Catalyst Cooperative is an employee-owned data engineering and analysis consultancy, specializing in energy system and utility financial data. Our current focus is on the US electricity and natural gas sectors. We primarily serve non-profit organizations, academic researchers, journalists, climate policy advocates, public policymakers, and occasionally smaller business users.

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Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles.

Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

The Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC) is a resource center for people wanting to join, start, and build intentional communities. Our Communities Directory features +1,200 intentional communities, including: ecovillages, cohousing, coliving, communes, shared homes, housing co-ops, and more. We host weekly networking and educational events, 5-week courses, classified advertisements, and an extensive bookstore and resource library on http://ic.org/

The Great Simplification is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Through conversations with experts and leaders hosted by Dr. Nate Hagens, we explore topics spanning ecology, economics, energy, geopolitics, human behavior, and monetary/financial systems. Our goal is to provide a simple educational resource for the complex energetic, physical, and social constraints ahead, and to inspire people to play a role in our collective future. Ultimately, we aim to normalize these conversations and, in doing so, change the initial conditions of future events.

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Ana Inés Heras is a National Researcher at the Council for Research and Technology in Argentina (CONICET). She holds this appointment by bridging the work of two institutions, namely the Universidad Nacional de San Martín and the Instituto para la Inclusión Social y el Desarrollo Humano. She is also a full professor at the University, teaching both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. With her partner David, she has raised five daughters and sons and is also a grandmother of four children. She coordinates the Co-ellaborative Research Program Aprendizaje de y en Autogestión. She is also a Board Member at the Community Economies Institute and participates in the Global Tapestry of Alternatives as well.