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Valerie Vande Panne

Category: Next City

What Truth and Reconciliation Looks Like in Practice

Black Lives Matter protests have continued for months, in the wake of what feels like endless police violence. In fact,…

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7 Nov 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
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