Buying stuff 1: Where do you (or your parents) buy your food?
It's easiest to hop in the car and do a big shop in a hypermarket. But not everyone has a car. They depend on local shops and those same shops make jobs for local people - many more than the supermarkets do. They bring money into your local area instead of sucking it out. Local shops and markets may also mean locally grown foods from nearby farms. The more local any food is the better. Why?

• bringing foods from half way round the world and trucking it thousands of miles - 'food miles' - from where it's produced makes lots of air pollution.
• if your local shops really are local, you can walk to them. Better for you; better for the air because you're not burning fuel to get there.
• local food is usually fresher. It has little travelling to do to reach you. Fresh food is better for you.
• buying local supports your local community.

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