The entirety of Richard Douthwaite’s Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies for Security in an Unstable World - plus updates – can be found here.
Douthwaite looks at real-world examples of how people can take back some control over their local economies – specifically over money, banking, energy, and food. A constructive, positive, and hopeful book. It was written in 1996, so some of the details have dated – but the web version has updates, and the basic messages are still relevant and inspiring.
