Entrepreneurship Meets the Post Disaster Economy: Get Ready for an Unforgettable Experience An unprecedented assembly of investment funds are going to gather in Asheville in a little over a month, all focused on helping local entrepreneurs succeed and become job creators. There will be sessions to help entrepreneurs learn how to best tell the story […] The post The Post Disaster Economy appeared first on Neighborhood Economics.| Neighborhood Economics
Sometimes a church can do a better job of solving the problem of post-disaster emergency housing than either a city government or a federal agency. That was the situation in Asheville when Grace Covenant Presbyterian stepped in to solve the problem for the hundreds of people who lost their homes–apartments, trailers, or houses –thanks to […] The post Church Leads Relief for the Unhoused after the Hurricane appeared first on Neighborhood Economics.| Neighborhood Economics
I can’t tell you how excited we are that so many of you are coming to Asheville Neighborhood Economics April 1 & 2. I have to tell you, I’m also so very sad that we are going to end up having to tell you all in just a few weeks that the event is completely […] The post Asheville’s April Entrepreneur Event Content is Coming Together appeared first on Neighborhood Economics.| Neighborhood Economics
A colleague has created a data set that shows where the relief money in the Asheville bioregion is going to provide relief and restoration from the impact of Hurricane Helene. Thanks to Tiffani Hart, who leads Ashevillerelief.org, we can see that much money from state and federal funds is going to each CDFI for these […]| Neighborhood Economics
Sweden may have inflicted Greta Thunberg and her environmental hectoring on the world, but Canada is now making its own contribution to children’s activism. Ontario climate zealots have launched a court battle – with seven children and youth named as applicants – alleging the province’s modest rollback of its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets violates their Charter rights. Exploiting children is bad enough, but in this devastating critique, retired litigation lawyer Andrew Ro...| C2C Journal
In its drive to stop climate change, the Justin Trudeau government in 2022 mandated that Canada get to a “net-zero” power grid by 2035, a time-frame subsequently extended to 2050. But is that feasible? In this exclusive analysis, nuclear physicist Jim Mason crunches the numbers to determine what would be required to replace electricity from fossil fuels with zero-emitting power. It turns out it would take so long and cost so much – hundreds of billions of dollars – that the policy is ...| C2C Journal
