The buy local movement has plenty of appeal, but the philosophy often extends more readily to tomatoes than tablets.
Smaller businesses are benefiting from social media tactics, too, and in fact, many say the shop local movement owes its success to online marketing.
But Perry brushed off the idea on Friday, telling CNN Chief National Correspondent John King that while national conservatives may be making noise in the race against Dewhurst, the local movement will stand for the lieutenant governor.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the buy-local movement, said Yonkers, is our nation's deep reliance on an industrial agricultural system, and a population accustomed to having all types of food available at all times, no matter what the season.
Hazelton has led the way in the local ordinance movement and has been in one court or another most of the time since 2006.
The label is promoted by the local food movement, and though it has only been in use since 2011, it is already used by more than 50 restaurants in the region surrounding Paris.
Teicher notes the liquidation of Borders in 2011, but also credits the ongoing "buy local" movement and independents' growing comfort with modern technology, whether for more efficient inventory systems or more effective online promotion.
Others are drawn, as part of the local-food movement, to hunting their own meat.
And the local-food movement's aims, of course, contradict those of the Fairtrade movement, by discouraging rich-country consumers from buying poor-country produce.
But since the local-food movement looks suspiciously like old-fashioned protectionism masquerading as concern for the environment, helping poor countries is presumably not the point.
Robert Santelli, the executive director of The GRAMMY Museum, and Smokey Robinson, the legendary Motown singer, will facilitate the workshop with performances by Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, one of the original Freedom Singers in the 1960s who traveled around the country carrying stories in song of local Civil Rights Movement campaigns to national audiences.
WHITEHOUSE: Music That Inspired the Movement Student Workshop
Unbeknownst to her, she was at the forefront of a local flower-eating movement.
The MST said it would not comment on the arrest of Mr Rainha as he "had not participated in any of the national, state or local meetings of the movement" for years.
As well as making a speech on climate change, he will attend a meeting of Italian business leaders and a reception to promote the "slow food" movement of local sourcing and organic production.
Most importantly, local governments are adopting the movement due to its rapid ability to catalyze change and get the community out onto the street.
The movement aims to promote local goods and enhance uniqueness, particularly in heritage and culture.
BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Tyne | Border town wins 'slow' accolade
This is especially true of the open data movement happening at the local, state and federal government levels.
Even though some of the anti-Belo NGOs, like the Xingu River Movement, are indeed local, they may face the problem of being too local.
Before OWS Zuccotti Park was removed by authorities, the local residents who had given the movement its political support was threatening to withdraw it because of the sound of drums.
The initial BOLO list said the cases "involve various local organizations in the Tea Party movement" that were applying for tax-exempt status under sections 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4) of the tax code.
The company is part of a growing movement to use low cost local resources rather then potentially un-reliable and increasingly costly foreign resources.
FORBES: Outsourcing the Outsourced: New Ziptask platform looks to disrupt outsourcing industry
Mr Brunerie is said to have a number of links to far-right organisations, standing as a local election candidate for the National Republican Movement (MNR), an offshoot of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front.
Spanning from California to Texas, and focusing, thanks to Pyles, on the latter, it the movement was motivated by using local ingredients and drawing on the region's diverse culinary influences to showcase what true local tucker involves.
In Bolivia's local elections, exit polls suggested that the Movement to Socialism of Evo Morales, the president, had won at least five of the nine regions, but failed to dislodge the opposition in three eastern regions.
She said she knew "the importance of connecting the concerns of local communities with those of the wider Labour movement" and was "brought up in a family where practical politics was part of everyday life, both through the trade unions and in local councils".
Intense discussions have been continuing in an attempt to achieve some movement on the issues before the forthcoming local government and General Elections move the focus away from finding agreement.
And in August, Ron Lieber wrote in the New York Times about options for the fed-up like peer-to-peer lending and the Slow Money movement, where locavore types invest in local food producers.
FORBES: Sick Of Wall Street Scandals? Then Invest Like Warren Buffett--In Local Entrepreneurs
These projects will improve local and regional connectivity, providing for the safe and efficient movement of people, goods and services.
Coastal sorts take their cues on the subject from Alice Waters, the owner of a famous restaurant in Berkeley, who has started a movement for food that is not only organic and local but altogether more soulful and sensual.
ECONOMIST: California is now divided more east-west than north-south
One movement, the Mai Mai, is made up of local ethnic groups and links up with former Rwandan soldiers, former Zairean army soldiers and some Burundian Hutus.
应用推荐