Cut Your Global "Stuff Miles" - Buy Durable & Household Goods Made In Your Country
Lamson & Goodnow factory operations.
Locally-produced food has been widely written on for years: from the Times to TreeHugger. Non-food items made near home have been overlooked, however. Let’s change that. There was a time when durable really meant durable, meaning stuff made to last years - even generations. From a global vantage point, pro-labor nationalism is good for the a country’s economy and jobs. Going beyond that conventional wisdom, my argument is that mass-produced items, made at home, made to last, using relatively harmless ingredients, well designed and constr… Read the full story on TreeHugger