Shopping regionally in every sense is going to be an important part of our green future, and we're starting to see the shift on a big scale.

It's reasonable to state that we're experiencing a kind of collective growing discomfort at the moment. As prices escalate and the newspapers are filled with sensationalist news of supply chain scarcities, the last couple of years have exposed the fragility and inadequacies of a world reliant upon globalisation to produce the important things…