As you may have noticed, I try to keep this column focused on local shops and boutiques, designers and crafters, beauty and health services and products for men and women, and fashion-related events that take place in Pierce County and closely surrounding areas (It’s like using your powers for good instead of evil). The key word is local. Meeting so many small business owners, designers and workers over the years has further affirmed my ongoing “Go Local” efforts to keep community money in our community.
I’m also a proponent of reducing carbon footprints. I’m kicking it into full swing this spring by shouting from the rooftops when others are doing the same.
Six of the area’s hippest consign-buy-resale stores already consciously working on their carbon footprint by recycling fashions and reusing clothing are stepping it up even more. For every person who spends more than $25 at the six stores during Earth Day week, April 20-25, the stores will donate 5 percent of those sales to the PCC Farmland Trust, a nonprofit organization that helps retain farmland for farming and promotes farmers who use sustainable, organic growing practices. The trust has almost completed the purchase of the 100-acre Orting Valley Farm. Efforts such as this allow us to keep purchasing and eating locally grown food. And that puts money directly back into our local communities via farms and farmers. Besides, how can you go wrong in shopping if shopping helps farmers who are somewhat of an endangered species?
Participating stores include Proctor District’s megs & mo, Blooming Kids, Orange on Broadway, Vanity on Sixth, Re-Fine Clothier in Sanford and Son on Commerce, and urbanXchange on Pacific Avenue. That’s a full day of shop-hopping with the girls.
You’ve now been given a 10-day notice of this chance to be a do-gooder, so get out your Tacoma map and plot your course.
Related Web sites:
megsandmo.com
blooming-kids.com
myspace.com/refineclothier
myspace.com/melaniesvanity
myspace.com/orangeonbroadway
myspace.com/urbanxchangetacoma
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