My friend Patrick just introduced me to a very useful website today: Locallectual.com. It's a listing of companies that make and sell their products locally or domestically - perfect! Although it seems that there's not much listed for Salem, I fully intend on filling it up with business I find as I find them. I think this is a resource with a lot of potential, and we just need to support it to help it fulfill that potential.
Also, my apologies for the lack of posts lately: Shannon and I just moved into a new apartment, and getting everything settled with it has been a pain (like moving is). Also, my lovely, American-made nieces are in town, and I can't help but go visit them when I have free time, being as how they live in Idaho and I only get to see them once every couple of months. I'll hopefully have time in the near future to get back to it - we're going to be buying plenty with Spawn on the way!
But to make it up to you now, let me present you with the following:
Question of the day: if the only domestically-produced product option is less environmentally sustainable than product options produced by another country, should one buy the American option anyway?
Story behind the question: Shannon and I are big fans of rechargeable batteries. Although they're a little more expensive up front, they're cheaper in the long run and help us reduce the waste going out of our home. Being as how batteries are toxic waste and can't ethically be thrown away, and since reusing is better than recycling, we feel that even if they were more expensive and less convenient they'd still be worth it - so it's even better that they're cheaper and more convenient! However, we've been looking for rechargeables, and the only ones we can find are made in Japan. On the other hand, all the batteries made in the US are non-rechargeable. So which way to do we go?
May 05, 2010
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