EconoUs2018 provides an exceptional opportunity to: connect with social innovation leaders from across Canada who share a passion for building strong, inclusive community economies; learn about strategies for generating positive local economic, social and environmental impacts; share your successes, challenges and questions on how to create inclusive communities, sustainable environments and local prosperity with an […]

A screening of the 40-minute documentary film by Centre for Local Prosperity Climate Change and the Human Prospect will screen at 7:30 pm. The film documents the vision created at the Centre for Local Prosperity's Climate Change & the Human Prospect: A Thinkers’ Retreat held at Thinkers Lodge in Pugwash, Nova Scotia in the fall of 2017. On the 60th Anniversary of […]

An import replacement strategy seeks to replace imported goods and services through local production.  Import replacement keeps money in the community. A key starting point is utilizing the procurement power of local public-sector anchor institutions for greater local procurement – spending a greater portion of their budgets back into the local economy. The Centre for […]