Benefits of buying local food.

http://food-hub.org/files/resources/Food%20Miles.pdf
Hey guys,
I found this article about the benefits of buying food locally on health and the environment and thought it was super interesting. The best are the last two pages with statistics and studies on health. It's only four pages, but pretty amazing. It's interesting because I think it is also valid when we're talking about the effects of using local materials in our designs vs. importing materials that are "inexpensive".

When we were talking on Tuesday about pre-fab vs. local it was said that it doesn't matter, whatever is inexpensive. But I think that "inexpensive" needs to be defined as something more than monetary value. Because importing "cost effective" materials, can costs us all a lot more than just money. It cost us additional pollution, it costs us the improvement of local economies, it costs us local knowledge that could be on the verge of dying out. I think the idea that each material or food that we consume has a much longer lifestyle that we all know exists, but choose to ignore, is a big problem.