On Tuesday morning, Sept. 26 I will be conducting a brief telephone interview with Michael Shuman, board member of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, BALLE. He has agreed to answer questions related to Peak Oil Impacts. If anyone from the task force or PPO would like to contribute questions before Tuesday morning, I would be happy to ask them on your behalf. Please either post them here as a comment or e-mail me at gotsoulradio [at] riseup.net

The following is Michael's bio from the BALLE website www.livingeconomies.org

Michael Shuman, an attorney and economist, is vice president for enterprise development for the Training & Development Corporation (TDC). He has written, co-written, or edited six books, including Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in the Global Age, and, most recently, The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition. Shuman promotes the concepts in Going Local and The Small-Mart Revolution through a variety of projects, including: creating a small-business venture capital fund in New Mexico; launching a community-owned company in Salisbury, MD, called Bay-Friendly Chicken; organizing university-government-business collaborations in St. Lawrence County NY and in the Katahdin Region of Maine to study opportunities for import replacement; analyzing the impact of devolution in the former Soviet Union for the United Nations Development Programme; preparing a buy-local guide and coupon book for Annapolis, MD; developing a website to support marketing by family farmers; serving as a senior editor for the Encyclopedia of Community; and building the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE).