Food

With some of the richest farmland in America, the Shenandoah Valley can again become the breadbasket of the East Coast as a center of the new organic, healthy food economy. This can help spur local services, cottage industries, and clean manufacturing.

Food Food

Energy

Clean energy right here in the Shenandoah Valley? With costs coming down, it's becoming do-able. And it could create good local jobs and even spur local manufacturing.

Energy Energy

Transportation

A century ago, Staunton enjoyed prosperity as a rail hub for passengers and freight. Combine our existing rail infrastructure with today’s national rail renaissance, and we can once again become a center for moving people and goods.

Transportation Transportation
The Power of Community

February Film: “The Power of Community”

Please join us on Tuesday, February 21 at 7 pm for “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil” at the Mockingbird Restaurant, 123 W. Beverley Street, in downtown Staunton.

Why Staunton and Augusta?

Beverley Street in Staunton

In the last 70 years, the hottest places to live and work in America were either big cities or their suburbs. But in the economy of the future, where the action will be less global and more local, … [Read More...]

Peak Oil, Warming, Recession

horsehead oil well

We are living in an unprecedented time of change, when our society is faced by a convergence of three crises that will change our lives forever -- climate change, peak oil, and global economic instability. Each one of these crises stems … [Read More...]

Re-Localize our Economy

Beverley Street in Staunton

While cheap fossil fuels have brought many benefits to modern society, they have also enabled a global economy that has destroyed the historic local wealth of America’s rural areas. Staunton and Augusta County are no … [Read More...]