Localizing our economy and lives offers many benefits, including:

• Creates worthwhile jobs and economic opportunities in our communities
• Strengthens the local economy by bringing back production and keeping money circulating locally
• Reduces our dependence on distant places for essential goods and services
• Reduces energy consumed and CO₂ emitted in transporting goods and people
• Brings the community together and reinvigorates the sense of place and comraderie
• Fosters an appreciation and respect of ecological systems favoring protection and restoration
• Makes the economy more manageable as opposed to relying on the vast global marketplace
• Refocuses our lives on family, friends, and community instead of place-less networks
• Encourages cooperation with neighbors rather than competing for constant gain