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A voice for Swannanoa
Swannanoa: Building an Accessible Housing Fund & Community Voice The Challenge • Housing crisis: One in six neighbors lost their homes or had them rendered uninhabitable. • Lack of representation: The Chamber and realtors dominate the small area plan; Latino residents were excluded or invited only as token members. Because homes were historically priced $100,000 below the county average and…
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Racial justice, fighting displacement & community health
Those three areas are the focus of our conference in Chicago, Sept 29-30 and October 1. I’m excited to say that another major national foundation has come on board to work with Neighborhood Economics on its Chicago conference, with a focus on racial justice and community health. This is going to have deep local content from groups shifting the system. I’m flying there tomorrow for 10 days to…
Stories with card decks
I am working on a story series, with my wife and business partner of 50 years, Rosa Lee Harden. That series will be in our Neighborhood Economics newsletter and we will have a shared Substack where out takes, etc are posted. On this blog, that I’ve been writing in for 14 years I am going to experiment with using the iconic “who are the people in your neighborhood” cards I had built a decade or…
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Starting a new story series
Neighborhood Economics is starting a more frequent publishing model , beginning with a story series called This Shit Works, and Why it matters. Since I have handed off overall content curation to Tim Soerens, our younger business partner, I will go back to covering the beat, of the places where somebody has figured out a solution that helps create assets held by folks in neighborhoods where…
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Creating a bioregional economy
I got into a dialogue with Readwise, which feeds on what I read, in email, medium, twitter, blue sky and the web. It doesn’t mine Substack exactly. I asked it how to apply bioregional principles and the idea of maintaining and regenerating natural systems locally in your own bioregion, several practical steps and approaches emerge from your highlights: Cultivate Relationships Between People and…
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An economy of reciprocity based in abundance
I had the opportunity to go last week, with Rosa Lee, to the Ostrom workshop at the University of Illinois to explain the post disaster economy I see sprouting through several initiatives in and around Swannanoa where we live that was also the epicenter of Hurricane Helene. Our neighborhood, called Swannana-nowhere in the Asheville region before the storm has now been on the front page of the…
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Partnerships emerging as conference approaches
with Neighborhood Economics less than three weeks away its the interconnections and partnerships that are standing out to me. One amazing partnership coming together under the leadership of Andrea Duvall of the distributor Mother Earth Foods brings together a data focused tech startup doing logistics, a $1 million dollar grant from the Red Cross who realize our local farm to table growers needs a…
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the currency knits the ecosystem
Mapping Mapping ATiffani is building a map that will be the content format for a spring event in Asheville next year. She will probably be using a water cycle metaphor Dave Gray offered.
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Trial of Ostrom talk intro
At the epicenter of Helene, we discovered each other, and found surprising abundance That’s the story of the aftermath of the hurricane that devastated Swannanoa. Because we found ourselves with a commons that had arisen spontaneously. We have decided to try to create infrastructure of this mini utopia from vanishing as they all do in Solnits book. Describe book. The result: people are open to…
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The disaster bonus
A summary of a talk I am giving on our work in Swannanoa, epicenter of Helene Game changing innovative finance to create regeneration across race class and neighborhood, tribal and white is gaining momentum; individual projects and collaborative low cost rapid partnership at ad hoc times that would never have happened before. Because so much was broken in Swannanoa by Helene, it has become a…
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Restoration of scoured riparian ways
I asked Chatgpt to show me case studies of Ecosystem restoration in scoured riparian zones—areas adjacent to rivers that have experienced erosion or degradation—has been successfully implemented in various regions. Notable case studies include: 1. Southwestern United States The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has documented multiple riparian and watershed restoration projects in the southwestern…
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Growing Resilience: How Asheville’s Garden Network Combines Food Security with Climate Justice In the heart of Asheville’s historic Shiloh neighborhood, a groundbreaking initiative is reimagining how communities can build climate resilience while ensuring food security. At the intersection of innovative financing, community empowerment, and environmental justice, this project could create a…
Asheville’s community garden network combines food security with climate resilience.
In the heart of Asheville’s historic Burton Street neighborhood, a groundbreaking initiative is reimagining how communities can finance and implement climate solutions while building lasting resilience. At the intersection of innovative financing, community empowerment, and environmental justice, this project is creating a blueprint for sustainable community development. This is a food security…
The new regenerative economy
The New Regenerative Economy: Beyond Impact Investing In the shadow of mounting climate crisis and social inequality, a radical reimagining of investment is emerging from the ground up. This isn’t another impact investing narrative about “doing well while doing good” – it’s a fundamental shift in how we think about returns, time horizons, and the very purpose of capital. The Limits of…
Can we create a Resilience Corps on the Swannanoa?
A Vision for Community-Driven Disaster Response In the wake of increasingly frequent climate disasters, a promising initiative is taking root in Swannanoa, North Carolina. Drawing inspiration from successful post-Katrina recovery efforts in New Orleans, we’re helping those working to establish a professional Resilience Corps that builds upon the extraordinary efficiency of existing mutual aid…
The Invisible Fund that funds mothers is nested in an ecosystem
Western North Carolina’s economy was built on exploitation – from the forced labor that carved the deadly Old Fort Tunnel through our mountains to the systematic taking of Cherokee lands and resources. At The Invisible Fund, we’re working to right these historical wrongs by investing in entrepreneurs who remain invisible to traditional aid funders, yet form the backbone of our community’s…
The Invisible Fund invests in mothers
The Invisible Fund: Building Community Wealth Through Mother-Led Enterprise The Invisible Fund confronts Western North Carolina’s legacy of economic exploitation while building pathways to collective prosperity. Our region’s wealth was built through systems of forced labor—from the convict leasing that supplied “free” labor for the railroad’s deadly Old Fort Tunnel construction to the systematic…
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