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"We have entered the endgame in our traditional, historical relationship with the natural world."
-–James Gustave Speth, RED SKY AT MORNING (2004)
  
  
 

What You Can Do to Shop Local - Food & Beverages
You have the power to make the world a better place because of what you buy (and what you don't buy).

FOOD AND BEVERAGES

  • People's Food Co-Op - 436 S. Burdick, Kalamazoo - www.peoplesfoodco-op.org - a consumer-owned cooperative grocery store, bringing a full array of natural products and healtful foods to the community at reasonable prices. Local products are helpfully labeled as such.
  • Bank Street Farmers' Market - 1204 Bank Street, Kalamazoo - Open Saturdays in May & November; Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays June thru October from 6 am to 6 pm. A variety of farm products (some of it organic), baked goods, plants, artwork. Lively and sociable.
  • Something's Brewing - 120 W. South St., Kalamazoo - Kalamazoo's first and oldest coffee shop. Always fair-traded coffees and teas--not always certified as such.
  • Water Street Coffee Joint - 315 E Water St & Oakwood Shopping Plaza, Kalamazoo. Organic, fair-traded coffee available sporadically--available as iced coffee all summer. Water Street has finally switched from styrofoam cups to biodegradable coated paper (and now gives credit for bringing your own cup).
  • Sawall Health Foods - 2965 Oakland Dr, Kalamazoo - Since 1936 SW Michigan's largest most complete health food market.
  • Rocket Star Cafe - 1502 W Michigan, Kalamazoo just east of the WMU campus. Always fair-traded coffee (credit for your own cup).
  • Global Infusion -143 Diamond St. S.E, Grand Rapids - globalinfusion.com - An eclectic marketplace of herbal, local and Fair Trade goods. Featuring an extensive tea and coffee bar.
  • Nature Connection - 359 S Kalamazoo Mall. Local artists.
  • Natural Health Food Center - 4610 W Main, Kalamazoo. Organic foods.

ORGANIC FARMS

  
   
  
  • To inform citizens about the dire consequences of climate change and species extinction, and how these problems are being addressed at local, national, and international levels;
  • To convince citizens that they must act now, on behalf of all peoples and all species, for what affects even the least visible of earth’s creatures affects us all;
  • To help citizens concerned about climate change and species extinction support one another and participate in local, national, and international efforts to slow climate change and species extinction and reduce their harmful effects.
       
We must change our lives and convince other people to do the same.