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Valerie Vande Panne

Category: Alternative Economies

Is Unschooling the Way to Decolonize Education?

We are midway through 2020, and struggling through a pandemic-fueled economic crash exacerbated by the federal government’s inadequate “stimulus” efforts.…

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14 Jul 2020

To Combat Widespread Job Loss, Stay Local & Look to Import Replacement

Amid the grim reality of COVID-19, one of the rare feel-good storylines has been a local business that changes its…

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21 Apr 2020

Foraging, and Forging, Connections in Cities

Urban foraging can feed the hungry, prevent wildfires, reduce the use of herbicides, restore ancestral memory and inspire action to…

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17 Dec 2019

Fashion Is Quietly a Major Fossil Fuel Industry—Could a Sustainable Revolution Be Around the Corner?

New York City is the fashion capital of the world. Its streets are peppered with influencers on Instagram photoshoots, its…

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5 Sep 2019

Local Currency: The BerkShare grows strong

Back in the 1990s, a couple of farmers and a deli owner in Western Massachusetts were denied loans, despite their…

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1 Jun 2019

The Paper on the Street

How street newspapers in cities empower the people who experience homelessness. In 2011, when Michael Thistle, 60, became homeless after…

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28 May 2019

Cooperative Acupuncture in the Heartland

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA–In a nondescript strip mall that could be just about anywhere in America, Cait Cain has set up nine…

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2 May 2019

Fight for your right to repair

You might remember, not that long ago, your town had a camera repair shop. It was probably a mom-and-pop place,…

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27 Feb 2019

Universal Basic Income is a Scam to Further Entrench Us in Capitalism

Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a much-touted solution to our increasingly tech-driven society, proposed by everyone from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to conservative libertarian…

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15 Jan 2019

Money Circles: The most important financial tool you’ve probably never heard of

Nkem Khumbah immigrated to the United States from Cameroon in 1990. The seventh of eight children, he came for an education…

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2 Dec 2018

How Minneapolis African Americans use their money in nonviolent protest

In 1960, black families in Minnesota made about 74% of what white families made. Today, they make about half of what…

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10 Oct 2017
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