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Valerie Vande Panne

Valerie Vande Panne is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Local Peace Economy, a project of the Independent Media Institute. She is an independent journalist whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Columbia Journalism Review, the Guardian, Politico, and many other publications.

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Humanity can’t recycle its way out of consumption problems

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Capitalism has warped our understanding of community — and it’s making us vulnerable to manipulation

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How native Hawaiians are taking internet access into their own hands

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, a shopper leaves the Gap store in Freeport, Maine. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File) (AP)

Fashion is quietly a major fossil fuel industry—could a sustainable revolution be around the corner?

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Demonstrators wave flags as they participate in a march the day after the governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello, resigned from his charge in San Juan, on July 25, 2019. (Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images)

Out of the ashes of Puerto Rico’s economy emerges a promising currency for all

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Think outside the Amazon delivery box

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The Amazon logo is seen on a computer in this photo illustration in Washington, DC, on July 10, 2019. (Photo by Alastair Pike / AFP) (Photo credit should read ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP/Getty Images) (Alastair Pike/Getty Images)

It’s prime time to boycott Amazon

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A man uses a mobile phone in front of an electronic stock indicator of a securities firm in Tokyo, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) (AP)

Local currencies work! There are already thousands of BerkShares in circulation

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Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP/Paul Sancya)

The battle for the rights of nature heats up in the Great Lakes

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A man sells bread rings and donuts at a flea market in the port of Piraeus, near Athens, Sunday, June 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (Thanassis Stavrakis)

Tired of spending money on the things you need? Then try joining a truly free market

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Time really is money with increasingly popular cooperative time banks

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Roddy Piper as John Nada in "They Live" (Alive Films)

Is your life ruled by screens? I tried out sunglasses that block what’s on them

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Algae floats on the surface of Lake Erie's Maumee Bay in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP/Paul Sancya)

A clean water revolution is happening in the U.S.

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Fight for your right… to repair

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A picture taken in the plant of GDE recycling company (Guy Dauphin Environnement) in Rocquancourt, northwestern France on October 11, 2016 shows recyclable waste. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images) (Afp/getty Images)

E-waste is a growing problem — here’s what you can do to curb it

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Nationwide, communities are discontinuing recycling programs

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Universal basic income: Why a so-called “solution” for disappearing jobs makes serfs of us all

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Feeling overworked and unfulfilled in Coastal America? Here’s what you can do in Middle America

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Demonstrators opposing the repeal of a tax on large companies such as Amazon and Starbucks in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

7 economic terms that are often used to trick people out of their money

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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2014, file photo, the City of Toledo water intake crib is surrounded by algae in Lake Erie, off the shore of Curtice, Ohio. Groups working to solve Lake Erie’s algae outbreaks agree that a key step will be targeting areas that are sending much of the algae-feeding phosphorus into the lake. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File) (AP)

Can community rights save the Great Lakes?

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Outraged by ICE’s treatment of children? How to close your wallet to companies that profit from it

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10 tips to ease the guilty gas consumer conscience

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Mudgirls: Meet the women building their own sustainable homes

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Ever notice how wonderful small businesses are at the mercy of a few greedy credit card companies?

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