Community-Based Economics

Perhaps one... begins to see the difference between a small local business that must share the fate of the local community and a large absentee corporation that is set up to escape the fate of the local community by ruining the local community.

So far as I can see, the idea of a local economy rests upon only two principles: neighborhood and subsistence. In a viable neighborhood, neighbors ask themselves what they can do or provide for one another, and they find answers that they and their place can afford.

—Wendell Berry

Local purchasing is better for the environment and better for the working conditions of those who are making what we purchase.