Shop Local For Christmas With These Cool Ideas

Why is shopping local important? It supports our communities, keeps our community unique, creates more job, reduces environmental impact...and that's just the beginning. In fact, Huffington Post reports that money spent at the local level generates 3.5x more wealth for the local economy. So this Christmas and Hanukkah, will you pledge to purchase at least one gift locally?

For those in Georgia, there are myriad ideas - from small-batch chocolate at Krog Street's Xocolatl (The chef's chocolate box is pictured above) to books from local authors like Jonah McDonald who penned Hiking Atlanta's Hidden Forests.

The options are endless, but we've collected several for you in our Christmas Exchange Idea List...just look for the local options at the top!

PS. Here's the link to the HuffPost stats I mentioned above. Photo courtesy of Xocolatl.