Simple, Easy, Steps To Help You Get Local
November 9, 2007
Going Local.
It's a concept that is catching on quickly.
The reasons are simple.
You support local businesses by buying their products that often are organic.
The benefits are many.
Buying local means supporting local folk.
Less energy is used and fewer wasteful emissions are produced getting these local products to market.
The biggest problem for us consumers is where do you find all that good local stuff?
Well, now there is a resource that is simple, easy and fun to use.
And what is equally amazing is that it covers all the bases.
The people behind it are retailers, restaurants, growers and community groups.
The Get Local concept grew out of a think tank last fall.
The organizers were from the FarmFolk/CityFolk Society and your Local Farmers Market Society.
The net result?
A group of 40 organizations got together and out of it the idea for Get Local was born.
Their website is outstanding.
The opening page poses the questions, what, where and how.
Now that's getting it right.
Their website is so great because it answers all the questions we have about getting local and its simple design with great colours add up to one word - gorgeous.
It's a reference library of getting local.
Be sure to bookmark it and check it out.
Vancouver Gift Baskets With A Twist
An idea whose time has come.
An idea you can use for Christmas.
Gift baskets.
They make great gifts.
People love buying them and receiving them.
In fact, more than 50 million gift baskets are sold in North America every year.
But the gift baskets at Saul Good Gift Co. have a twist to them.
The twist?
Be environmentally friendly, buy local, use organic and natural products and think holistically about the business you're in.
Practice what you preach.
The result?
Eight outstanding gift baskets that are unique and are produced using Living Green concepts.
For example, all the packaging for the baskets comes from recycled materials which of course can be recycled again.
The gift boxes double as a shipping container and reduce waste by 66 per cent.
Now that's impressive.
But Saul Good has taken it one step further.
All products and brands are not just chosen for their superior quality but also for their social and environmental benefit.
And that's a good thing.
Buying local also is a good thing.
Studies show that local products have three times the economic impact, when compared with items purchased from distant businesses.
So if you want to make a difference and give a gift that makes a difference, order one of these baskets.
A lot of companies and people do.
As we said before it's an idea whose time has come.
Check out the gift baskets.
