tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517520529701406341.post286324234348257553..comments2023-05-20T03:34:23.694-04:00Comments on MY BELEW MARBLE: Speaking of My Home Town...blockdoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14760388151980733921noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1517520529701406341.post-5307505844983411502007-09-15T08:38:00.000-04:002007-09-15T08:38:00.000-04:00This is a really important topic. I will help you ...This is a really important topic. I will help you any way I can from here...I think I have some links I can pass on at least.<BR/><BR/>For the past couple years, we have made a conscious effort to do all our Christmas shopping at locally owned businesses. It has been SO much more pleasant shopping that way. The gifts are better quality usually, it points people to the businesses and I feel better about my purchases.<BR/>I haven't shopped at WalMart in years. I'm not guiltless though, because my in laws shop for stuff for us there all the time-ugh! Diapers, those sorts of things for the kids.<BR/>There has been a good thread on another arts group I frequent and theres been an excellent discussion about consumerism in general and how our current disposable culture had led us astray.<BR/>We don't need planned obsolescence in our products, concepts like that.<BR/>Our crises of energy and pollution and everything else depressing won't resolve until we start getting the average American to care and demand change with the way they spend their dollars.sp8cemunkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11530091773628526319noreply@blogger.com