The Wise Economy Telescope: first week of May, 2021

Formerly Wise Fool Digest, which sounds like the aftermath of an ill-advised lunch

Hi, all. I decided to make some modifications to this newsletter to make it easier to read… and a little less…yeah.

In addition to the name change, you’ll notice that I’ve limited each post to a couple of sentences here. If you’re interested in that topic, you’ll find a more extensive article at the link titled, “Tell me more!” If you’re not, then you can quickly move on to the next thing, or the updates on the Wise Economy Network, or something good on TV, or whatever.

Do check the Updates section at the end this week, because there’s a couple of things that might be particularly useful for you.

This week’s three leading Local Economy Revolution Indicators

Reasons to be a little bit optimistic about local news - and about local communities

This article from Poynter gave me a little dose of happy.  It documents some early experiments in strengthening local media, which I’m more and more concluding has an essential role in resilient and healthy local communities.  The innovations …