Local challenge

We are now 5 days into our eat and buy local.  So far so good.  Thought we would have a problem with toilet paper, but Seventh Generation is a Vermont company.  Had to start to think of alternatives to TP, but luckily was able to stop before any implementation.  This eat and buy local is a really cool experiment that I hope we can incorporated into our life.  We are definitely saving money in that impulse buying is gone.  By having to consider where or how something is made causes you to pause for a moment to consider do I really need this item.  A new term thanks to Radical Homemakers

Extractive Economy - What we have now

Life Serving Economy -
1. Respect and care for the community of life
2.  Ecological integrity
3.  Social and economic justice
4.  Democracy (true), nonviolence and peace

"our wealth is sunshine and water, not fossil fuels or other nonrenewable resources, embrace the principles of social justice and non-exploitation, and agree that our exchange of dollars must not come at the expense of someone else, whether they are local or on the other side of the planet."

Hope to see any readers at Shelter this Saturday.