Buy Local - Corporate America and the Co-opting of 'Local'
Source: Louisville Eccentric Observer (LEO) www.leoweekly.
Excerpt from article:Hoping to capitalize on growing public enthusiasm for all things local, some of the world's biggest corporations are brashly laying claim to the word "local." Article by: Stacy Mitchell, Louisville Eccentric Observer
Made in Minnesota Gift Guide
Source: MN 2020
Nearly 400 local businesses are listed in several categories -- such as restaurants, arts and crafts, bath and bed, jewelry, pets, books-movies-music and more. Shop local and support your local merchant and artist.
Eating locally, helping globally
Source: recordnet.com
Local food and knowing the farmer who grew your food is refreshing and reassuring in the midst of our anonymous food system. Eating from your local foodshed is easier in some places, but there is so much room to increase the amount we buy from local producers.
Small Business in 2008 - by Michael Steele
Source: Townhall.com
This goes back to turning support towards a more local economy. Stimulating the growth of "home-grown" business in Anytown, USA. will be essential to America's future economically.
Justice for All
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Katrina Pacey, Barrister and Solicitor Pivot Legal LLP / Pivot Legal Society - pivotlegal.com, pivotlegal.org
Creating Real Prosperity in the Global South
Source: YES! Magazine
There's only one thing worse for the poor in the Global South, we're told, than a job in a sweatshop: It's the alternative—no job. That's basically what New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof argued recently.