E-Reserves Final Readings

 "Conserving Communities" talks about how large corporations look to take advantage of local communities.  Large corporations often move into small communities in order to create a new market for product, and something like that can have harsh effects on things like family-sized businesses.  That's not only a problem for the small businesses themselves, but also can effect the sense of community that the small business creates within a nearby area.  Not only that, but large corporations often can see a demographic like farmers as unimportant.  That's incredibly shocking to me that one could think that, as farmers are the backbone of both local and national industries and provide for a large portion of the nations produce and overall food production.  Large corporations coming in and making farmers seem unimportant can have especially harsh effects on local markets that these farmers often provide a large portion of food for.

    The "Global to Local" article gives possible solutions for people to use to fight back against some of what globalization stands for.  The CSA program portion of this article particularly stood out to me.  This relates to the first article, as creating/joining a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) program can create new local prosperity.  This makes it harder overall for companies to come in and take over vacant land, which CSA programs can instead use to produce more local food.  It creates a heavy sense of local community as well, increasing the overall sense of community and prosperity within a local environment. This article is highly relatable, as most of where I live contains agriculture that's kept local, and its created a good sense of community.