You shop locally--why not bank locally too?

Scanning the Internet over this morning's coffee, my mouth salivated at the mention of zucchini pancakes in a story in today's San Francisco Chronicle. But what really got my tummy growling was the story's buy-local perspective on belonging to a credit union:

While she flipped the zucchini pancakes, she laid out her best argument, "I say to people: So you shop at a farmer's market. You use alternative fuel or bike or take public transportation. But you still bank at Bank of America?" She laughed at the paradox of the small- is-beautiful crowd supporting a global corporation.

And for dessert:

"With banks, it's a business and all your money goes to make someone you don't know rich -- but with credit unions, all the money goes back into the community," Jessica explained. "It's people banding together to share the abundance."

Read Radical banking: You shop locally -- why not bank locally too?