The following is theologian Willie James Jennings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_James_Jennings. on why people of faith should show up at zoning meetings. It was delivered at Fuller Seminary, an evangelical seminary, when the overall topic was how do we get diverse people to come to church. Jennings said, people of faith need to…

My statement at the Buncombe County Tourism Development Board on why they need to fund affordable housing for service workers This is action I am taking next week to get involved with the story I wrote https://kevindoylejones.medium.com/making-ashevilles-tourism-millions-work-for-the-people-who-are-doing-the-work-6d0e7100ea94 last week Good morning ladies and gentlemen of the Tourism Development Authority. My…

Ben Williamson, like a lot of people in Asheville, was not happy with how tourists and the tourism industry had taken over the city, thanks in large part to a tax on hotel occupancy which results in tens of millions of dollars being spent annually on advertising to get people…

I’m meeting today with two top researchers, thought leaders in the impact dao space. I want to know if you can use impactdaos as the backbone of a network connecting several different community commercial real estate projects that create community ownership in BIPOC neighborhoods. The four funds are already sharing and pooling a new funding vehicle that gets them the catalytic, patient, risk taking, flexible, capital their projects are missing.

Pandemic causing a Darwinian shift in adaptability. The new Messenger RNA vaccines are a major step forward in responding to viruses; they use the body’s own machinery, the RNA that carries messages, to teach a cell to make a protein that’s like the virus and start the body’s immune response. It’s much faster and with the prospect of more pandemics pretty clear means we can react faster, collectively than we could before.

Creating a new, transformed economy means changing the way American Christians have seen the land and their own identity, and the primacy of private property. The best thing I saw this week was Willie James Jennings keynote at our Neighborhood Economics conference. White colonizers crimes were committed by their tragically…

Vertical farms solve a problem but their problems have not been solved. Vertical farms still have unsolved problems. There is not enough land to grow fruits and vegetables at scale; the Salinas Valley is full and hugely per acre. Vertical farms could solve that, potentially. Below is a starry eyed…

The trouble I was up to this morning It started with this post The meeting Monday at Moments cafe in Swannanoa on replacing the Black Mountain News will present the plans of Fred McCormick, for five years the news reporter for the paper, who took on feature writing when they…

Freedom of the press, $2 The meeting Monday at Moments cafe in Swannanoa on replacing the Black Mountain News will present the plans of Fred McCormick, for five years the news reporter for the paper, who took on feature writing when they let that staffer go, and then managing editor…