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The importance of telling your story, because we need the stories (opens the original)
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Ground News: A Canadian Innovation Helping the World See the Full Story https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ground-news-canadian-innovation-helping-world-see-full-ted-ritzer This LinkedIn newsletter story showcases how aerospace and nanotechnology engineers created a platform to help readers break through algorithmic echo chambers and evaluate media bias from multiple perspectives. It illustrates how bringing non-traditional, interdisciplinary problem-solvers
Tell Your Story. You, yes, you (opens the original)
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About 15 years ago, during my first go round with podcasting, a colleague of mine started pestering me that I needed to interview her city manager. I really didn’t want to. She was nice enough, but her town had a reputation for being rich and, well, kind of snooty. Not the kind of place, face value, that I wantted to highlight. Eventually, I gave in and took my little voice recorder to their city hall. Grumbling about the waste of my time. I was wrong about that.I learned that this small city’s
Communities really are investing in their own. Here are a few. (opens the original)
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“Community Investment, Collaboration, and Celebrating Our Own” | NGIN Newsletterhttps://mailchi.mp/newgrowth.org/get-active-with-ngin-17664593?e=f2d6c0e27fThis newsletter introduces a field guide on Community Investment Vehicles (CIVs), highlighting their emergence as a powerful tool for community-owned real estate. It directly supports the essay’s point that community ownership strategies are critical for building local wealth, preventing displacement, and creating shared ownership models.“The
Rethinking Economic Development Through Community Ownership (opens the original)
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We’re used to thinking about economic development as a game of hunting big game. You bag the giant factory, you bring home the bacon. It’s an exhausting, high-stakes game that leaves most communities empty-handed, and even the winners often find themselves held hostage by the very corporations they courted. Despite that, we keep jumping when they ring the bell. But there’s a sea change underway, one that recognizes that real resilience doesn’t come from a single, massive employer. It comes from
More than strong backs: building public problem-solving. (opens the original)
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This is a pretty upstream concept that I am working on with some planning collaborators, but I think it’s got the potential to show how online tools can facilitate the kind of public debate and deliberation that our typical three-minutes-at-a-microphone-misery sessions have spectacularly failed to build. Right now, we are looking at using the first strategy here (the “Cascading Consensus”) to frame up a set of alternatives, and then the third strategy (the “Principles First”) to create a clear s
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