LocalMart is a marketplace for locally produced, sustainable goods and services, using an alternative currency for payment, and having the objective of creating sustainable local economies. It's goal is to set up many local affiliates worldwide where providers (vendors) can produce, and customers can purchase, within their own or other affiliates, sustainable goods and services to suit a very wide variety of needs.
    LocalMart is set up for ecommerce, but is by no means limited to this. The use of its own MartMoney currency (always easily convertible back to dollars) makes it easy to conduct unlimited in-person transactions, all without any fees and without credit cards, debit cards, cash or checks.
    This store is organized in two ways (as can be seen in the "Categories" box to the left.) One is a heirarchy by country, state or region, sub regions, and then the local affiliates. For example, LocalMart-Berkeley is an affiliate based in USA/California/San Francisco Bay Area/East Bay/Berkeley, and all Berkeley based products and services are found there. The other heirarchy is a list of all products and services for all affiliates, so if a customer wished to search in all U.S. affiliates for a category such as gardening books, this method could be used. Whereas the basic philosophy of LocalMart is promote commerce within your own local affiliate, it is also useful to be able to search for products and services offered in other LocalMart affiliates as well.
    For more information about the background and operation of LocalMart, click on this link: LocalMart Information.