
{"id":5457,"date":"2009-04-09T06:46:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5457"},"modified":"2009-04-09T06:46:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:46:58","slug":"task-force-focuses-on-carrboro%e2%80%99s-local-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/04\/09\/task-force-focuses-on-carrboro%e2%80%99s-local-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Task force focuses on Carrboro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s local economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan Dickson<br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Local Living Economy Task Force hopes to launch educational campaigns for consumers and entrepreneurs, hold events to engage citizens in the local economy and create a coalition of local businesses, task force representatives reported to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday.  <\/p>\n<p>The board created the task force in March of last year to help Carrboro achieve a locally owned, operated and supported economy. Members were appointed in May to serve a period of 18 months and were charged with investigating strategies by which the town could help foster the development of a sustainable, locally owned and run economy. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sammy Slade, chair of the task force, said it is creating a business directory and a list of business resources to be posted on the town website to provide consumers and entrepreneurs with information they can use to buy local and maintain local businesses. <\/p>\n<p>An educational campaign targeting consumers would offer reasons to buy local, tying the Carrboro economy into the economic crisis and providing information on the benefits of shopping local, Slade said. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, the task force plans several ongoing events, as well as an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Honor Junk\u00e2\u20ac\u009d event, which would encourage reuse, recycling, repairing and reselling.<br \/>\nFor entrepreneurs, task force members would also like to hold a town business workshop. According to Slade, task force surveys of local businesses indicated strong interest in such a workshop. <\/p>\n<p>The task force will report to the board again in November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Local Living Economy Task Force hopes to launch educational campaigns for consumers and entrepreneurs, hold events to engage citizens in the local economy and create a coalition of local businesses, task force representatives reported to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday. The board created the task force in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-5457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-carrboro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5458,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions\/5458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}