Tag: Buy Local
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10 Businesses Going Green in the Realm of Romance
Valentine's Day is all about romancing your sweetheart. These companies show the planet some love too.
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10 Great Examples of Winter-Friendly Bike Gear
Fair weather cyclists be warned: Winter cycling gear here is so great you may be tempted to get your bike out of winter hibernation. Or how about the perfect holiday gift?
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Black Friday and Buy Nothing Day Roundup, Or Why It Should Be Jdimytai Damour Day
Is shopping so important that people have to die or get pepper sprayed?
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Why Is Black Friday Coming to Canada?
We don't have a holiday Friday and Thanksgiving was weeks ago here. What's this all about?
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Bristol Prints Own Money, Including Banksy-notes and Eco Themes, to Spur Local Buying
The British city of Bristol hopes to promote local business with their own high-security scrip featuring local designs
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Winter Coat Turns into a Sleeping Bag for the Homeless
Read how a Detroit student designer has created a non-profit company to make sleeping bag/coats for the homeless.
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Ibex's Wool Will Be 100% American, Grown To Sewn
The clothing manufacturer plans to source, fabricate and sew its Shak Lite wool garments completely within the USA
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Green America’s Top Green Businesses of 2011
The People's Choice for Green Businesses of the Year select 10 best shops, goods and services
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Adivasi Body: Delicious on Skin, Nose and Globe
The bath and body goodies hail from my hometown in Connecticut, handmade in small batches making it a pretty local treat for anyone in the NYC metro-area.
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'Tis it the Season To Avoid Green Guides?
Piers Fawkes of PSFK asks "What has happened to the environmental movement?"
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Forget Cyber Monday, It's Green Gift Monday
If you are going to spend money today, do it for a good cause and on a green gift.
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One In Five Canadians Crossing the Border To Get Into the Black Friday/ Cyber Monday Madness
It's one thing to drive to the mall, but one fifth of Canadian shoppers are driving to another country. That's crazy.
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Forget Black Friday, Remember Small Business Saturday
Small business is the heartbeat of local communities and the engine of the US economy.
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Reoccupy Main Street: Small Business is the 99%
This holiday season, invest your time and money in family, neighborhood and community.
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Three Options For Black Friday
Not up for camping at the Best Buy? We have three less costly and more comfortable options.
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This Black Friday, Occupy Main Street; Shop At A Local, Small Independent Merchant
Lets declare a day of non-action, of unoccupying the big box stores. Instead, let's support our local, green neighborhood shops that need our custom.
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Rockaway Beach Rocks Locavore Eats in Thrifty Spaces
On this rainy start to the weekend -- and Fall -- I needed a little pick-me-up, some sunniness in the face of gray. I pulled out my iPhoto album and found the fix: sweet, summer
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Local Colorado Brewery Transports Kegs via Tricycle
When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save
