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Valerie Vande Panne

Tag: AlterNet (page 2)

It’s Time to Meet Regenerative Fiber

Do you know where your clothes came from? No, not the store, the label, or the brand. Or China, India,…

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2 Mar 2018

ECONOMY The Tech Moguls Driving Mass Layoffs in the Economy Want Universal Basic Income as a Cure—Should Progressives Be Cheering?

Driverless cars! IBM Watson! News-writing robots! Amazon Go! The future is here, friends, and it apparently excludes humans. People are preparing for the…

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28 Feb 2018

Is higher education worth the price tag?

If you want a higher education in the United States, you need to have money. The average cost of a college…

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22 Feb 2018

Dark Communities are Healthier Communities

Have you ever seen the Milky Way? The very galaxy we are a part of? I have. But I had…

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14 Feb 2018

Congestion Pricing: Regressive tax or saving grace?

Cab driver Doug Schifter committed suicide last week, severely distraught due to the crushing weight of the gig economy. Uber,…

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14 Feb 2018

Smart cities look to their citizens, not multi-national corporations

U.S. cities, it seems, sometimes are setting themselves up for decay, with big tax giveaways, ever-rising prices and systems that put the bulk of…

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7 Feb 2018

Why we must think long-term

Whenever the conversation turns to our country’s current situation and immediate future, people say we’re screwed. I hear that over…

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11 Jan 2018

Five big myths sold by the defenders of capitalism

I’ve been writing about the economic and environmental realities of marginalized communities for some time, primarily from the perspective of…

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10 Jan 2018

7 Good Things That Happen Every Time You Decide to Buy Local

Live longer, live healthier, and live more peacefully. My latest at AlterNet.

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18 Sep 2017

Get Ready for Medicinal Mushrooms

To treat cluster headaches; addiction to alcohol, cocaine, and tobacco; and for anxiety and depression. Read about it here.

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11 Apr 2017

The Secret History of Cocaine

A visit to The Coca Museum in La Paz, Bolivia, for AlterNet.

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27 May 2016
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