Category Archives: Buying local
Your water usage doesn’t hold water
Dear DumbAgent, My extreme-recycling, hybrid-driving, local-produce buying girlfriend keeps scolding me for wasting water when I leave the tap water running or wait for the shower to warm up. She says I’m ruining the environment and wasting precious water. I wanted to research the veracity of these statements, but most people I ask seem to [...]
Myths about Green
Fortune Magazine has a feature on Myths and Truths about going green. Some highlights include: Myth: Bottled Water is Safer than Tap Water (Reality: Tap water is subject to stricter government standards.) Myth: Buying Local food is better for the environment (We refer you here and here for more about this.) Myth: It’s Better to [...]
Keeping Protectionism Local
In this era of globalization, where the world is flat and everyone is a mouse click away, people have been buying closer and closer to home. People buy goods that are produced nearby in order to help their local community and reduce their carbon footprint. As we have mentioned in the past, we believe this [...]
Buy Global, Not Local
Having mentioned in the past that Buying Local is not a realistic manner of saving the environment, we are greatly pleased to see our points of view reaffirmed in a paper by Hiroko Shimizu and Pierre Desrochers entitled: “Yes We Have No Bananas: A Critique of the ‘Food Miles’ Perspective” They take many examples, and [...]
More Reasons Not to Buy Local
Last week we published our Top 5 reasons not to go local, but we could not go without mentioning a couple others. More reasons are always found for going local, and we felt these points needed to be addressed. We also added some other points in favor of interstate and international trade. 6. You can [...]
