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posted 29 March 2008 by Paula | link to this

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Paula Hay has forged her career on the cutting edge of graphic communications technologies, beginning with the digital print revolution of the early 1990s and later through the explosive growth of the World Wide Web. During that time she took a variety of roles facilitating the digitization and Web integration of publishing workflows. Her design work has been featured in a number of online galleries and has served as part of the undergraduate technical writing curriculum at Penn State University.

Paula founded Rabbit Mountain, LLC, in 2006, a small web and graphic design firm located in historic Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.

Paula has been working since 2001 to advance localism in a variety of capacities, including publishing the now-defunct webzine Adaptation: evolving into the post-hydrocarbon century and participation in 2005’s Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma conference in New York City. Locally she works with businesses and activists, serves on the Board of Voices of Central Pennsylvania, and is listed as a graphic design resource with Penn State University’s Small Business Development Center.

Paula will receive her BA in journalism and a post-baccalaureate certificate in technical communications, both with distinction, from Penn State University in 2008.

Paula is especially interested in the use of the internet to promote “buy local” campaigns at the metro and community level. If you are interested in collaborating, please don’t hesitate to contact Paula by email or by telephone at 814-321-2368. 

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Why local preference?

Consumers around the world are making a shift to locally-sourced purchasing out of a desire for environmental sustainability, community self-reliance and meaningful economic relationships. Local foods, locally-made goods, local banking and investing — even local energy production — are quickly becoming their preferred alternative to a globalized economy.

Headlines are part of the larger Rabbit Mountain links collection archived at Ma.gnolia.com. If you visit Ma.gnolia, be sure to check out the relocalization group there as well.