Home | Mysite 1 Home Our Work About BALE News More Building A Local Economy is a community resource center in South Royalton Vermont that actively supports the emergence of a resilient engaged and vibrant local culture. By focusing on appropriate scale valuing the commons building bonds of authentic connection and facilitating creative collaboration we strive to celebrate and uplift our communitys capacity to meet the challenges of our times. Localization Sufficiency Resilience BALE Building A Local Economy sees its work along with many other inspiring collaborators as building new resilient models grounded in a new story of how we live on the Earth. We know we have so much to learn and seeing that so much creativity is awakening in this time we focus on such things as gratitude conscious living and valuing what is important to the human spirit which we know is not money and not scarcity.