The Story of Stuff

The New York Times today reported on a wonderful little web documentary called "The Story of Stuff" on consumer economics and how it is trashing our environment and destroying communities and cultures. On the Story of Stuff web site, they briefly list buying local as one of the ways to reform the system:

When you can, buy local products from local stores, which keeps more of our hard earned money in the community.

This inspired me to do a quick search on "buy local reduce waste" which turned up a great article on Bright Hub. Food for thought.