If we want to conserve energy and learn how to live on a sustainable scale, we should look to small towns and communities where low-growth or no-growth economies are supporting a high quality of life and housing treasuries of knowledge revealing what it means to have wealth without growth. Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, is such a place. It is therefore a good place to launch this series of stories, anecdotes and examples from here, there and everywhere that will explore the social dimensions of small-scale economies and community-based wealth.
