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Valerie Vande Panne

Category: environment

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

Cities Are Cutting the Salt from their Winter Road Diets

If you live in a place with both cars and snow, chances are you’ve witnessed first hand the annual salting…

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3 Feb 2020

We Are All on Native Land

With three news bureaus nationwide and a partnership with the Associated Press, Indian Country Today brings Native voices to mainstream…

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12 Nov 2019

More Joy Less Pain

Check out the trailer to the amazing documentary about Peter Gorman: and please come to the screening at the Tribeca…

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30 Sep 2019

Got Hunger?

Several U.S. cities have ambitious approaches to tackle food insecurity. But have they missed the most important part? As a…

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9 Sep 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

Can Cities Grant Nature the Right to Exist, and Thrive?

From preventing toxic algae blooms to banning aerial pesticide spraying, the fight for local control over environmental decisions elevates the…

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16 Aug 2019

The Case to Repair, and Not to Replace

The Right to Repair movement rejects the primacy of disposable culture and proprietary technology. How proposed legislation could notch a…

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17 Jun 2019

I spent a day with Rashida Tlaib

Photographers Eric Howard and Rosa Maria Zamarron were there too. We were there for In These Times, a socialist magazine out of…

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18 May 2019

Listen to me talk big box store redevelopment on NPR

Talking about the old Meijer store in Greenville, Michigan. Here is the article we’re discussing.

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4 Apr 2019

Is this the future of big box?

How Abandoned Big-Box Stores Can Bring Communities Together What do a BMX center, a church and an international marketplace have…

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11 Mar 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
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