This a digital twist to the traditional farmers market. The site LocalFoodshop.co.uk helps customers find locally produced food and drink.
The site says:
The aim for Localfoodshop is to help you to identify your local suppliers of quality, fresh, seasonal produce. You buy direct, keeping your money in the local economy and supporting local farmers and artisan producers.
At Localfoodshop, 93% of the sale value goes straight to the producer. Compare this to the supermarkets! And the remaining 7% supports the social enterprise which runs the site, re-investing any profits back into the local food sector.
This looks like another step in the right direction whereby people can find things locally and so help local commerce and reduce the burden on the environment…
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Brilliant post on the emergence of a store created to be at the heart of the community, and aiming to make environmentally-aware shopping mainstream, desirable and convenient.
This builds on the whole ethos of provinding services locally2u, forget the words ‘eco’ or ‘green’ and ‘plastic bags made from 33% recycled material’, how about going back to the good old days of community shops where products are locally-grown and packaging is provided by the customer or only used as a necessity…
At Unpackaged, we’re not in the business of ‘greenwashing’, we’ll tell you honestly what we are doing now, as a small organisation, and what we hope to do in the future.
Apart from the teas, all of the products we source are certified organic
We always source fair trade products where possible
We do not sell any products that are air freighted
We give preference to suppliers who are cooperatives or social enterprises
We apply the principles of the waste hierarchy: reduce, reuse and recycle
We plan efficiently to minimise any transportation by ourselves and our suppliers
The Future
We are developing an extensive sustainability policy based on our triple bottom line which will be transparent, measurable and cover every aspect of our business. This will be published and we will provide regular updates on our progress, always striving to improve our performance and look for new and better ways to work. The policy will cover, in depth, the following elements of our business:
- Products
- Suppliers
- Use of any packaging
- Waste
- Energy consumption
- Transport
- Community involvement
More commentary can be found here at PSFK…
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Advent calendars have long helped build excitement and anticipation on the countdown to Christmas, typically revealing a pretty picture or piece of chocolate behind the cardboard door for each December day along the way.
Charles and Marie the German-American shopping site aim to blow all others out of the water this cristmas by delivering luxury gifts to one’s front door instead, Charles and Marie’s Holiday Calendar service delivers “a very, very large” gift box containing 24 wrapped gifts, one for each day through Christmas Eve.
The products contained are selected for Charles and Marie by euro design duo Alissia Melka-Teichroew—best known for her acrylic jewelry and her InsideOut Bar-ware collection—and Jan Habraken, of Flow Chair and Trestle Table fame. Planned scarcity is also part of the service, as the products included are available through the site only in this holiday package.
Pricing is EUR 1350 / USD 1800 for the luxe version, or EUR 500 / USD 600 for the more accessible Cosmopolitan Edition, with delivery available around the world…
Just need a big mantle piece to put this sucker on 
