News and Events

• Did you know that a dollar spent at a locally owned business is likely to be respent several times before leaving town, generating several dollars worth of employment and other benefits for our community? This is why cities around the world have developed local economy programs!
  
  
• The Tradelocal Business Directory is now available!! This is a printed version of the local business database. Contact us if you want a copy More about the Directory.
  
  
• The Charlottesville Barter Network is now hosted at Tradelocal.org
  

• Search the Local Business Database
  Find the goods and services you need from a locally owned business.
  
  
• Add your business to the Database
  It's Free!!
  
  
• Tradelocal Business Directory:
  A printed version of the local business database. Look for it in area businesses like Mudhouse, Integral Yoga Natural Foods, and The Nook. Learn more about the Directory and view a mockup.

• What is Tradelocal?
  
  
• Why a Local Business Directory and Database?
  
  
• Why Support Local Business?
  An essay on the importance of supporting your local economy.
  
  
• Concious Cultural Evolution, Understanding Our Past, Choosing Our Future
  A book about local economy and social change by Tradelocal founder Alexis Zeigler.
  
  
• Cool Tradelocal T-shirts!
  
  
• How do I get involved?

• Tradelocal is proud to announce that the Charlottesville Barter Network is now being hosted on the Tradelocal Website.
  
  
• You are invited to see the resources that others have to offer, and to list your own goods and services. Never let an absence of money in your pocket stop you from trading with your neighbors!

• Articles about Local Economy
• Progressive Action Directory
• Monticello Avenue
  
• Coop America
• ShopForChange.com
• The Body Shop
• Directory of socially responsible businesses
  

• Encourage a shift in business activity toward local and sustainable capital, materials, labor and consumption.
• Educate our community about the environmental and social advantages of doing business locally.
• Inspire and empower citizens to use their energy and consumer pull to promote local business, economy, and culture.
  
  Supporting local business builds a more equitable and sustainable society. Goods produced by small businesses are processed with more labor and less energy. Money spent on local goods and services goes into the pockets of people who need it, instead of enriching transitional corporations.
  

"Monopoly...is a great enemy to good management"
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book I