Act Local School

Act Local School, a local, experimental project of Neighborhood Economics [1] in partnership with Warren Wilson College [2] and the Asheville Poverty Initiative [3] Planned start in March, 2024.

Snapshot of the 11 Democracy School classes

How to support the local farm to table economy

How Rural Health, Mission Hospital

Outdoor rec as a rural catalyst

How to invest in local businesses at lower than crowdfunding risk with greater upside

The history of settlement and power in the place where you live.

Workforce housing solutions so that people don’t have to drive 40 miles for a restaurant job

How to bridge the red blue divide

How to subvert redlining in your community with allies like Strongtowns chapters and a local board of realtors.

Links to this page

• Main Page ‎ (← links)
• Initial design of the Watershed Fund ‎ (← links)
• Project Equity ‎ (← links)
• MountainTrue ‎ (← links)
• Neighborhood Economics, AVL ‎ (← links)
• Silver tsunami in North Carolina ‎ (← links)
• Camp Grier ‎ (← links)
• Healing Local Economies ‎ (← links)
• Alison Lingane ‎ (← links)
• Resources for Act Local School ‎ (← links)
• Mtn. Biz Works ‎ (← links)
• Catalyst Fund ‎ (← links)
• Guidelines to ethical wild seed collections ‎ (← links)
• Asheville for all ‎ (← links)
• Missing middle ‎ (← links)
• Nimbys and Haw Creek ‎ (← links)
• Homelessness ‎ (← links)