LaSalle Gardens (Montreal) - Summer 2008
The Sustainable Development Corporation with ECO411 put forward the concepts of relational economy in this project which looks to demonstrate how Community Economic Development can thrive on 'indigenous' (derived from the Latin meaning 'self-generating') resources by helping communities recapture their food spending dollars in an Asset Based Community Ecological-Economic Development ABCDE model. Through the petitions of support for local economy, human ressource cataloguing and mapping (through the OGM) we will keep track of families looking to invest buying power in local distributors of essential goods, along with local grocery stores and restaurants who wish to embark in this evolved consumer association.

In a community of over 2000 citizens, we seeka participation of a 100 residences (signatories). This amount can recapture approximately 750,000 food spending dollars to re-channel in a frequent buyer's program that can implicate a % family discount plus share interest redeemable in products.

This project is coordinated by Douglas F. Jack. Technical support is provided by Olivier Kolmel. And new to our team we welcome Tara Mather, from University of Texas at Austin, who is operating as field agent.