Tag: buy local
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The Illogic of “Buy Local” Bookstores
I recently linked an article about What Buy Local Gets Wrong. I quote Jason Soren's observation: "If you buy everything within that circumscribed area and exclude everything outside it, your community will be worse off than it would be if it bought from any willing seller." I came across this quote in a recent article…
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Local food is trendy, but is it really more eco-friendly?
USA Today: Local food is trendy, but is it really more eco-friendly? … Two new books, however, say local food isn't necessarily more eco-friendly, even though it travels fewer miles. They cite research showing long-distance transportation accounts for only about 4% of the greenhouse gas emissions in food production; most occur at the farm itself…