Brummet's Conscious Blog

Local Food Movement  “Launching this BC Centre for Agritech Innovation will improve productivity here in B.C., meaning more food will be grown closer to home, leading to lower costs associated with transporting food. Simply put, this centre makes us a global front-runner in agritech.” The quote above is taken from this really interesting article about the growing trend, and the need, of purchasing food from local producers or suppliers that stock locally grown produced goods. Our menu plan has a huge ecological impact, it can be a positive impact - however - if we choose to shop locally.  Imagine an item grown from far away has to get loaded on a truck and taken to storage, then loaded on a truck and driven 300 miles (or whatever the distance is) to another storage unit where it is repackaged and distributed to the various stores. Much of that fossil fuel cost is reduced simply by purchasing from locally produced goods.  The other aspect of this shopping habit is that you...

Conscious Consumerism  Conscious consumerism alone has a major impact on the local economy, your personal health, budget constraints and the environment. It involves looking at the power of each dollar spent and evaluating how it can make a difference while benefiting your family. Sign into your favorite social networking sites and join local buy and sell, advertise, entrepreneur and local event groups. Doing so will expose you to small and home-based entrepreneurs producing wonderful products at great prices. You may find artists who carve beautiful house address signs out of scraps they obtained from a woodwork shop operating just a few blocks from you, who purchased their materials from a local mill. Each of these small businesses hires local people and buys coffee for their staff room and gas from local stations. With this in mind, it is easy to see that buying local is one conscious consumer activity that supports a sustainable community.  You may find great prices on ite...

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Buy Local Creston  Buy Local & Shop Local & Food Hub campaigns are increasingly adding support to local communities around the world.  There are so many reasons why supporting local businesses and food producers is so very important.  The most important being that it stimulates the local economy, thereby ensuring employment and an array of services in your area.  It also reduces the amount of fossil fuels associated with travel and shipping, plus all the packaging that is now almost eliminated.  There are a lot of other benefits, but these examples easily show the positive impact just because consumers are making that conscious choice.  We have been lucky enough to be included in several different campaigns, from Buy BC, Shop Local and now the Buy Local Creston program. Dylan, a member of the team behind Buy Local Creston , notified me that I would find our listing near the bottom of the  https://buylocalcreston. ca/service/  page I l...

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Have you heard of the Step Up For Local campaign? If you haven't - check it out at:  https://stepupforlocal.ca/ This online campaign is rapidly gaining recognition for the support it offers for small businesses and reinforcing the concept of shopping locally.  Here's some information gleaned from their website: “ Through the efforts of many, Canadians for the most part flattened the curve ,” says Phil Otto, CEO of Revolve . “ Now we need to turn our attention to help the backbone of the Canadian economy – small businesses – survive both the pandemic and the imminent recession. Hence, Step Up for Local ” Less money leaves the community: 45 cents of every dollar spent at a locally owned business stays in the local economy vs. 14 cents spent at large chains. This creates tax revenue to fund healthcare, education, safer communities, streets and sidewalks.  Local businesses pay it forward: Not only are local businesses more likely to support other local businesses, they also c...