Michael H. Shuman 

Michael H. Shuman is director for research for Cutting Edge Capital, Business Development Director for Business Alliance for Local Living Economies and A Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He is the lead author of Community Food Enterprise: Local Success in a Global Marketplace, published by the Wallace Center at Winrock International. His new book, Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity, has just been published by Chelsea Green Publishing as one of Post Carbon Institute’s “Community Resilience Guides.” Shuman previously authored Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age and The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition. Michael has written nearly 100  articles appearing in the New York Times, Washington Post, Weekly Standard and others.