Local Shopping Fights Global Warming

“…Hundreds of new neighborhood businesses that have opened in the last few years in what might be both the beginnings of a revival of small retail and one of the more important strategies we have for countering global warming….”

Here’s a wonderful article in Grist about how shopping as locally as possible is an overlooked approach to reducing global warming. Author Stacy Mitchell of The New Rules Project (http://www.NewRules.org) is an expert on the impact of Indie businesses on both local economies and on community-building, sustainability, and other applicable subjects.

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-19-neighborhood-stores-strategy-for-fighting-global-warming

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