The Buy Local Movement has gained a lot of ground over the past few years. The Occupy Wall Street movement speaks to a lot of the same issues (and frustrations) as the Buy Local Movement. Our economic ...

Planning to cook up a steaming pot of chili on a brisk fall night, you open a can of organic kidney beans and stamped on top is “Product of China.” It begs the question: Can food from so far away ...

Few textile and manufacturing facilities remain in North America, but organisations like Fibershed are working to help companies develop 'buy local' sourcing networks. The California-based non-profit ...

Sister publication Gifts & Decorative Accessories recently spoke with experienced retailer Carol Schroeder, co-owner of Orange Tree Imports in Madison, Wis., who shares advice on how to price products ...

SALFIT, West Bank -- Order a Coke to wash down some hummus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank these days and chances are the waiter will shake his head disapprovingly -- or worse, mutter "shame, shame" ...

One of the more impressive feats of the buy local movement in Utah has to be The Community Co-Op, an organization started up by the Crossroads Urban Center years ago that has transformed into a ...

"That's expertise we can now share." Brancel adds there are hundreds of farmers, processors and others who've been involved in Wisconsin's buy local movement without ever receiving a taxpayer-funded ...