Quotes About Local

Great thing about asking a real cab hack for directions is they'll know where you want to go. Bad thing is they give it to you in cabbie. Lots of turn left by the hobo peeing on the cat sorta stuff.

Two economists recently concluded, after studying the issue, that the entire concept of food miles is 'a profoundly flawed sustainability indicator'. Getting food from the farmer to the shop causes just 4 per cent of all its lifetime emissions. Ten times as much carbon is emitted in refrigerating British food as in air-freighting it from abroad, and fifty times as much is emitted by the customer travelling to the shops.

Hamilton was keen to shoot authentic local colour to give the film an American flavour, especially specific details that could not be faked in Europe. The later part of the film was set in Kentucky, but Hamilton found plenty to shoot in Florida. He was particularly proud of one shot of a certain food shop, 'This was too good an opportunity to miss. God is smiling on me. Of course, it's years later that Kentucky Fried Chicken is everywhere!

That's what they call the pub. Your pub is your local, and we have a local. And you have to go. It's the law.

Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles....If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.

Concentrating on local foods means thinking of fruit invariably as the product of an orchard, and winter squash as the fruit of an early-winter farm. It's a strategy that will keep grocery money in the neighborhood, where it gets recycled into your own school system and local businesses. The green spaces surrounding your town stay green, and farmers who live nearby get to grow more food next year, for you.

But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can't stop talking about them.

48-point type, a letter size that big-city newspapers probably reserve for special occasions such as Armageddon. Out here in the heartland, we are not waiting that long. Our local paper's stance on the great big headline letters is: You got 'em, you use 'em.

If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.

But if a story has all the elements, it will be legend around here, where we love our neighbors so much we can't stop talking about them. It gets to be

Obviously other ones did exist such as basketball, but not in Lee County. Any sport that's not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they've invented flavors.

eating home-cooked meals from whole, in-season ingredients obtained from the most local source available is eating well, in every sense. Good for the habitat, good for the body.

Business. I'm an accountant. Once a year I have to come to Japan for some of the firm's local clients." It was a good cover story. No one ever asks follow-up questions when you tell them you're an accountant. They're afraid you might answer.

A Fed, a local, and a consultant.

UR LOCAL's under construction. Better watch out, traffic fines double.

But rather than citing the serious attitude of local officialdom, as before, he stressed how he had "wound everyone up, the way it's supposed to be done.

to raise the cultural level of the laboring masses and rear them in a socialist manner, promote a literature in the local languages, appoint local people who are most closely connected with the proletariat to the Soviet organizations and draw them into the work of administering the territory.

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

It was Klan custom, for instance, to append a Kl to many words. (Thus would two Klansmen hold a Klonversation in the local Klavern.)

Whitehead was not an expert, an official, an authority. He was a local. That was his great strength.

Seeing other cultures is the best way to learn which things you thought were universal but are actually local.

Los habitantes de Cuévano suelen mirar a su alrededor y después concluir: —Modestia aparte, somos la Atenas de por aquí.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

No one is as cautious as an elderly mocker, especially when he knows how sensitive the local press and rotary club are.