Act Local School

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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 for making biomedicinals, damaging wild harvest stops.

Farmers sell carbon easily

Silver tsunami in North Carolina Boomers needing to sell the family business because the kids went to college and didn’t come back.

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.


The tourism industry

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


How to bridge the red blue divide


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