BALE (Building A Local Economy) is a community resource center in South Royalton, VT.

We see our work—along with our many inspiring collaborators—as building new, localized, resilient models grounded in a new story of how we live on the Earth.

We are intentionally multi-issue in focus and multi-dimensional in our programmatic work.

At core, our vision is to build a sustainable culture that can foster the economic and ecological capacity in our communities to survive through mutual interdependence and communal care. How can we thrive as external forces (climate disruption, economic and systems instability, systemic scarcity) threaten our existence as a species?

Our work is focused on

appropriate scale

valuing the commons

and creating community-driven assets.

We know we have so much to learn, and seeing that tremendous creativity is awakening in this time, we focus on such things as gratitude, conscious living and valuing what is important to the human spirit.

Our Vision

Engage as many folks as possible in the deep reasons for addressing our failing climate and extreme economic inequality.
Offer intelligent programming that explores understanding of our historical moment and inspire efforts to be change agents in the way we live our lives.

Build a base of transformative leaders in the face of challenges we face.
AND, crucially, build the new models that sustain a resilient, community-driven experience of the world and our place in it.

Building A Local Economy

15 Years of Resilience Through Localization

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Celebrating 15 Years of Building Local Resilience