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December: Organize a Buy Local Month in Your City!
Organizing a Buy Local Day in your community is a great way to bring attention to the benefits of buying local rather than buying from big box stores. Click here for ideas about how to organize a Buy Local Day. They range from something very small scale, like getting your friends to hand out “buy local” flyers outside chain stores on a particular day to something larger scale like getting your city government to declare a particular day the official “buy local day” in your city. You can also promote buying local by ..
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Why Buy Local?
Big box stores like Wal-Mart are steamrolling their way into cities and towns throughout the country, pushing down wages and forcing small, local businesses to close because they can’t compete with these mega-companies’ predatory practices. But there’s something we can do! Let’s vote with our dollars in favor of locally owned, independent businesses and against the negative impacts of chain stores and big box stores on our communities! Why buy local? Local businesses produce more income, jobs, and tax receipts for local communities than big box stores do; Local businesses are more likely to ..
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Join the Organic Consumers Association's Campaign: BREAKING THE CHAINS
The Organic Consumers Association is trying to get one million people to join them in striving to Break the Chains by December, 2008. Urge your local businesses, community organizations, coffee houses, environmental groups, and churches to do the same! Click here to sign the Break the Chains pledge:
I pledge to Break the Chains whenever possible by:
*Buying Organic, Fair Trade, and Fair Made products.
*Boycotting Wal-Mart and the Big Box chains, as well as the big chain bookstores, restaurants, grocery stores, and ..
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