Startup! | A Local Living Economy Business School

Let’s make something new!

STARTUP!
A Local Living Economy Business School

What is the school about?

At Startup! You can learn how to develop a profitable and rewarding business that contributes to a strong local economy and livable planet.

Our learning environment encourages mutual respect, nurturing of new ideas, collaboration and mutual risk-taking. We believe developing these skills will be essential in the new economy.

Each instructor is a shareholder and is compensated by the success of their classes and students. As well, our instructors contribute a portion of their earnings to a sustainable business model fund. The fund is utilized to provide early start-up capital to our student entrepreneurs.

What is a Local Living Economy?

The concept of a Local Living Economy is an important one. Who cares about your community’s economy? You do! A Local Living Economy is defined by what you and your fellow citizens can imagine it to be. Some characteristics of a Local Living Economy could include:

Sustainable domestic sources of energy are available to everyone;

Jobs that provide sufficient opportunity and wages to take care of our families and ourselves;

Food that is healthy, safe and affordable is available to everyone;

An economy that contributes to a healthy environment and livable planet. Healthy environment, healthy people, healthy planet.

Authors and sources of Local Living Economies ideas and actions;
Living Economies
About the Local Living Economy Movement and Resources

Why should you consider joining the Local Living Economies movement?

A Local Living Economy ensures your family’s, community and business future. From this point of view profit is not the only reason to be in business. We aim for a richer legacy where our businesses contribute to creating a livable planet.

For entrepreneurs discovering how to create a local living economy can be profitable and rewarding. There are many opportunities to change our local economy from basic needs like energy, food, health services, housing to restaurants that specialize in serving fresh low C02 all natural foods or recycling fuel efficient cars modified to accept alternative fuels. Some of these business opportunities will be transformational changing the way we live.

Our vision

New trade practices, products or services that contribute to a local living economy are launched.

Our five year goals:

Identify and launch one business model or trade practice that serves as a catalyst for a local living economy;

Develop eight business models that contribute to a local living economy and can be propagated quickly in any of these areas, education, health, transportation, housing, energy and food security.

Let’s make something new!