links for 2007-03-09

• Friend of Nature? Let’s See Those Shoes. - New York Times
  "Just as food products are labeled with calorie and nutritional information, consumer products are beginning to bear details about their environmental impact, like the amount of greenhouse gases produced in making, transporting and selling them."
  (tags: environment manufacturing retail green_economy consumption business)
• Local currencies: a grassroots response to globalization | Gristmill: The environmental news blog
  "Local currencies are... [designed] to aid the goals of sustainability, as they strengthen the regional economy, favoring locally owned enterprises, local manufacturing, and local jobs, and reducing the region's dependence on the global economy."
  (tags: green_economy sustainability business finance money alternatives local_currency)
• The E. F. Schumacher Society • Local Currencies
  List of local currencies in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
  (tags: finance business local_currency green_economy sustainability money)
• Local Currencies in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding Money, Building Local Economies, Renewing Community
  An argument for the use of local currencies.
  (tags: local_currency finance business sustainability green_economy)
• Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional Economies
  On the use of local currencies as a tool for building sustainable regional economies.
  (tags: local_currency green_economy sustainability business finance money)
• As the Climate Heats Up, Lawyers Sharpen Their Wits - New York Times
  Climate change "seems well on its way to becoming the next big thing in environmental law.... The biggest growth area for climate lawyers involves new emission-management tools... and the markets that trade them."
  (tags: green_economy carbon_trading law environment)
• www.myspace.com/rebuildingtherightsofstatues
  (tags: beijing punk myspace)