A few years ago, when I was working at The Food Conspiracy Co-Op in Tucson, a customer of mine wished me a Happy Interdependence Day. He then smiled and said, “…because we all need each other.” That message has stayed with me these past few years and has offered me...

The average American’s shopping cart holds stories perpetuating a rather profound misery — sweatshop labor, factory farmed animals, genetically modified monocultures that leach into nearby water — yet we are removed from these realities as we shop. Most people shop...

There are many things I love about the local movement, and one is the spirit of goodwill that tends to show up with it.The word  community” begins to creep in to “commerce.” This particularly happens when people start getting to know each other over time — being...