Easy Peasy Tip: Shop Local First
By tinychoices | September 22, 2007
Think about how you can incorporate locally-made goods into your shopping list– whether it’s purchasing apples from a nearby farm, hand lotion whipped up in your town, or a muffin baked fresh at the bakery down the street– the less a product travels, the less pollution and waste it creates. Keeping it closer to home also creates a stronger local economy and gives your local businesses a foothold against the big corporate chains.
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Having worked at a locally owned store and having a really bad experience there, it reminds me that I would love to see you ladies do something on environmental justice.
I love talking about environmental justice! tinychoices will get right on that.
i have become a really big local thinker since reading plenty. not that i’m going to challenge myself to become a full-on localvore/locavore, especially with fall about to start, but i can at least utilize one or two of the four great bakeries within walking distance, right? there’s a lot of great stuff in chicago, and if i make the effort to buy my media at a local store like reckless records, why not do the same for my bread?
And cupcakes! Don’t forget about the local cupcakes.
I’m a huge fan of buying local and when I have the need (or a strong desire, as we are way to loose with the word “need”) to buy something mainstream and generally made far far away (like steel wool or a microplane zester) I try to purchase it from a locally owned store. That being said, workers at my corner store are not neccesarily treated better than workers at a loarge corporate chain, in fact, sometimes they’re exploited even more. Just throwing it out there - as if shopping with awareness wasn’t difficult enough.
And don’t forget about Pennsylvania:
Buy Fresh, Buy Local!
http://www.buylocalpa.org/splash.html