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.
It is led by the father daughter team of Kevin Doyle Jones and B.J. Jones
Snapshot of the classes (subject to change)
How to subvert redlining in your community with allies like Strongtowns chapters and a local board of realtors.
How to support the local farm to table economy
Guaranteed from Seed becomes a standard making biomedicinals, wild harvest stops.
Silver tsunami in North Carolina
Rural Health, Mission Hospital
The history of settlement and power in the place where you live.
How to use giving to invest to become a more powerful giver, and how to do it in your trust circle, from Sunday School class to civic club to junior high ecology class.
Workforce housing solutions so that people don’t have to drive 40 miles for a restaurant job
How to bridge the red blue divide
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)