This could be the new economy.

“Farmers markets, I began to realize, heal the edges of our uber-industrialized economy, allowing a less chemical-and fossil fuel- intensive economy to flourish.  They heal our relationships with each other as we reconfigure the buying and selling of food around fresh air and community.  Most importantly, they heal our spirits, because if something pays, it stays, and those of us at the market that morning sensed we were voting with our dollars for a kind of independence:  the right to farm. . . . . “This could be the new economy, ” I said. “Healthy, community-centered.”   -from Twelve by Twelve by William Powers

 

This is just one excerpt from Power’s book that I have underlined, in fact it is starting to resemble one of my text books from college.  For me, this is the kind of book where when I underline something, I also say, “yes!” out loud and scare my children, I tap my toes, I jump up out of my chair and pace around the room because I’ve been energized by the words, thoughts, and convictions of this man.  Please, put this book on your 2013 “books I must read” list!

 

This could be the new economy.