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Local & Loving It
One writer’s quest to help her community by celebrating birthdays closer to home
By Natalie Ermann Russell
Natalie Ermann Russell is the editor of a new magazine about eating locally in Central Virginia, Edible Blue Ridge
“In my house, the “New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2007 word of the year, locavore (someone dedicated to buying local foods), was lexicological inspiration: Why not stay local with all the other stuff we buy, too?
There are good reasons for buying local. It reduces the need for shipping, which reduces pollution, and it supports the local community. “A study we did found that for every $100 spent in a chain store, $14 went back into the local economy. For a locally owned business, it was $45,” says Stacy Mitchell, author of “Big-Box Swindle” and researcher with the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. “Locally owned businesses buy a lot of services from other local businesses. So by buying from one local business, you’re not only supporting that business, you’re supporting other local businesses.”
Read more about the importance of buying locally here.
The local food movement is also important to our local economy. Defined as a “collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies – one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place”, the local food movement is important to our local economy and social structure.
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