The WIRE (Women in Rural Enterprise) annual conference is happening on 23rd April 09, right at the heart of the UK at Telford in Shropshire.WIRE is one of the oldest established networks for women in business in the UK.But it’s far from living in the past.With younger members coming onboard as many families move out of urban areas to the countryside, and with opportunities opening up for home-based businesses because of the Internet, WIRE is more relevant today than ever.The theme for this year’
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Most of us live in urban areas and depend, in no small measure, on the networks and amenities a city provides: its infrastructure, its creative hubs, its unique places. The impacts of the financial meltdown are likely to be felt quite differentially across regions and cities, Richard Florida writes, with some cities evincing a good capacity for reinvention and survival (and thrival!), while others may struggle and see a greater incidence in advanced industrialised countries of tent-cities. With
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