Where possible it's good to buy local. There is lots of reasons for this.
* Firstly you're more likely to know more about the goods and the conditions in which they're produced.
* Transport and fuel use. It often takes much more energy to transport the goods we use to us than it takes to produce the goods themselves. Fossil fuels are cheap financially but the hidden cost on the earth via pollution and mining them in the first place, means that we are subsidizing our lives with artificially cheap energy. Smaller-scale organic agriculture and local production will see a more healthy and more…
