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When MySpace Meets your Local Producer: Fresh Food Makes a Tech Leap

Posted 3 weeks 1 day ago by Linsey Knerl

Frugal Living, Technology, Food and Drink

MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn are familiar (and often tired) ways to reach out to others with similar interests and goals. So why am I not surprised to see Social Networking hit the local farmer’s market? Check out the newest way to connect with your farmer down the road.

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Local Currencies

Posted 45 weeks 2 days ago by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance, Frugal Living, Life Hacks

Gold and Silver Coins

Because the advantages of trade (lower prices) fall into the hands of the person making the decision (the buyer), there's a constant tendency to move toward freer trade, unless there's some sort of institutional pressure in the opposite direction. Local currencies are one way to institutionalize a preference for buying local.

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Trade versus localization

Posted 45 weeks 5 days ago by Philip Brewer

Lifestyle, Green Living, Food and Drink, Consumer Affairs

Scene at a farmers market

Localization--eating locally grown foods and buying locally produced goods--has become trendy just lately. For the past twenty years, though, globalization has been the dominate force. The tension between trade and localization is not a new one.

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Possible Backlash Against Cheap Imports?

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Shopping

Is there a backlash against cheap Chinese imports coming? I, for one, secretly hope so.

We've known that it can't last forever, haven't we? This spending spree that Americans have been partaking in - between our big TVs, our cheap clothes and Target shoes, even many ingredients in our food - it has to end. Our trade deficit with China was long ago recognized as a problem, but not one that Americans were willing to really do anything about - as long as both of our economies kept growing, we felt, we should just keep doing what we're doing.

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