Matt Bauer - Chair/Founder - President BetterWorld Telecom
Andrew Gowder - Vice Chair Pratt-Thomas and Walker, PA
Jenny Wiedower - Secretary - Navy Yard Community Association
Ken Adcock - Brainstorm Design
David Anderson - Chernoff Newman
Megan Barkes - Michauex Conservancy
Bryan Cordell - SC Sustainability Institute
Lowell Grosse - Charleston Coffee Roasters
Karalee Nielsen - Revolutionary Food Group
Andrea Schneck - Plum Elements
STAFF
Jamee Haley, Executive Director
Alan Moore, Program Director - Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
Lowcountry Local First is committed to building a network of small businesses that allows all business owners to participate on the same level. Retail, manufacturing and agricultural businesses will unite with the same mission - to promote and preserve their local economy through the promotion of their goods and services.
We are an alliance that educates the public on the importance of supporting the local economy, and encourages businesses and consumers to be environmentally sustainable and socially responsible. We are one of over 60 chapters of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) www.livingeconomies.org.We envision a sustainable global economy as a network of Local Living Economies, building long-term economic empowerment and prosperity in communities through local business ownership, economic justice, cultural diversity and a healthy natural environment. Independent businesses create wealth by engaging local people in the production, marketing, and consumption of goods, they pay taxes, and reinvest in our communities.We educate the public to:
• Reduce material and energy costs
• Recycle and reuse waste
• Buy and sell locally.
• Support local agriculture
