submitted to The Madisonian, December 5, 2011
Check out the new blog, www.sustainablysadie.blogspot.com for my suggestions and tips for sustainable living. My husband and I have a long-term goal to someday be 100% self-sustained. There are many ways to live a sustainable life, and there are some realities that prevent a 100% self-sustained lifestyle. I mean, we love our coffee. We have a coffee business and coffee will not grow here in Montana. We love Montana. Therefore, we know that we will have to work so much to pay for coffee shipped from the equator—where the stuff grows.
I strongly believe in the Buy Local movement, so much so that I chair the Buy Local committee of the GRVCCA and work hard at marketing and informing the public of the importance of supporting local businesses. Check out the Ruby Valley Buy Local Gift Guide…find it at your local merchant or print your own pdf copy from the chamber website, www.rubyvalleychamber.com. I’ve gotten some great, positive feedback: “I didn’t know you could get half this stuff in the Ruby Valley…” and that is what Buy Local is all about. Informing the public and other business owners of what is available locally. Supporting the local economy will help to sustain that economy. And what we, Buy Local and local merchants, business owners, what we need is feedback. We need your ideas, wants, desires. We need you to email, post suggestions, make phone calls (at reasonable hours!). We need to hear from you!
Post sustainably ideas at the new blog, or email sustainablysadie@hotmail.com . Check out the Ruby Valley Buy Local blog, www.rubyvalleybuylocal.com. Look for us on Facebook. Working together, we can sustain our local economy – maintaining community cohesion and building a place where we can encourage kids to stay after graduation.
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