With bad economic times again driving many decisions about state resources, other states are sure to watch Arizona's experiment closely.
With few resources other than their own grit, the 286 unionized workers took on a multibillion-dollar corporation not known for backing down in its fights with unions.
Lesotho, in particular, had few economic resources other than its labour, which it traditionally sent over the border into South Africa to work in the mines.
But if America does not explore for and produce our ample oil and gas resources, other nations with weaker environmental standards will.
Article seven of Antarctica's Protocol on Environmental Protection stipulates that activity relating to mineral resources, other than scientific research, is prohibited.
At the same time, a global mutual credit movement of Local Exchange Trading Systems LETSS) and Time Banks is generating value from community resources other than cash.
Article VII of a new Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty states simply, "Any activity relating to mineral resources, other than scientific research, shall be prohibited".
Although service is normally sweet and friendly in Thailand, for example, the less experienced Seychellois, living in a poor country with few resources other than tourism and not wonderfully paid, are sometimes unhelpful or glum.
This is not colonialism; I'm an individual, not a country, I haven't taken land that belongs to any other country, and I'm not extracting resources other than sunshine and sand.
Using resources other than money is vital: At Casserole Club we believe that rather than give money you can give something that people really value... home cooked delicious food delivered by a friendly neighbour, for instance.
If this is true, not only will Hinkley C leave us with a gigantic bill and nothing to show for it, it will also have stymied – through the misallocation of both financial and political resources – other contributions to the low-carbon economy, in the form of renewable power and energy-saving technologies, which could be deployed immediately with minimal risk of failure.
