What a stunning picture they paint of the impact of food dollars feeding Wall Street.
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
It's time to bring agriculture back into our lives in the 21st century, and the town of Hastings Minnesota, is taking a step towards this, as the town council is about to vote and allow the citizenry to keep chickens as pets and food sources.
4-part series premiering on: Thursday March 19, 2009 at 8 pm on CBC-TV
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.
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.
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.
In the long run, solutions need to merge economic, social and environmental concerns
Katrina Pacey, Barrister and Solicitor Pivot Legal LLP / Pivot Legal Society - pivotlegal.com, pivotlegal.org
Local businesses creating vibrant, unique and thriving communities here in Utah.
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.