Among today's indie retail advocates is Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and author of Big-Box Swindle. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), with the help of Mitchell, has developed a program, the New Rules Project, to help bring fresh new policy solutions to communities and states to ensure that they are designing rules as if community matters. David Morris writes about the dilemma today’s communities face, commenting, “Some view the decline in the importance of territorial communities as an inevitable consequence of modernity: localism will naturally have diminished importance in an age of globalism. But this theory of the inevitable decline of community implies that public policy has been neutral on the issue. It has not.” ILSR agrees and the New Rules Project has been set in motion because the old rules don’t work. They undermine local economies, subvert democracy, weaken our nation’s sense of community and ignore the costs of our decisions for future generations.