When presented with the prospect of providing two Keene State College students majoring in American studies with paid internships at the Hannah Grimes Center, the American Studies Program pursued this opportunity with great enthusiasm. This is especially so given the attention that various types of “engaged learning” continues to receive within conversations about Higher Education [...]
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Michael Antonucci, Associate Professor, American Studies
Posted in Collaboration, Local Economies on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Meet Monadnock LLE Intern Samantha Fournier
Posted in Collaboration, Food & Farms, Local Economies on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Samantha Fournier, Keene State College Student I am thankful to have been given this opportunity to work with the Hannah Grimes Center during the spring semester of my senior year. Majoring in American Studies and minoring in History and Sociology, I came to Keene State College “hungry” for knowledge. Upon my arrival in the [...]
Meet Kyle Michaud, Monadnock Local Living Economy Intern
Posted in Collaboration, Food & Farms, Local Economies on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Kyle Michaud, Keene State College Student The earth is going through some really rough times right now. Never before have we had to deal with this much disease, “natural” disasters, and as a nation, our economy and environment is under severe stress as we continue to kill it slowly with too much emphasis on [...]
Monadnock Buy Local Hosts Ongoing Online Monadnock Local Living Economy Discussions
Posted in Collaboration, Local Economies, Systems Thinking on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Join us on Facebook, where each month Monadnock Buy Local will focus on a different building block of our Local Living Economy– highlighting the businesses, organizations & individuals who are making these components stronger and more resilient in our region. Read more about this project – Our Local Living Economy: Connecting the Dots Building Blocks: [...]
The Self-Organized Economy
Posted in Local Economies, Systems Thinking, tagged Biomimicry, Coevolution, Self-organization, Tom Wessels on February 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
By Tom Wessels, Core Faculty at Antioch University New England I stand atop New Hampshire’s Mount Pisgah looking east toward Mount Monadnock and see what appears to be an expansive wilderness. Within the hundreds of square miles that stretch before me there is only one thing suggesting the presence of people—a lone, white farmhouse nestled [...]
Visualizing Our Local Living Economy
Posted in Local Economies, Vision & Mission on November 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a tool to help us visualize our Monadnock Local Living Economy: Building a Plenitude Economy (via BALLE & the Center for a New American Dream) New Dream Mini-Views: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy from Center for a New American Dream on Vimeo.
Local Living Economies Book Discussion
Posted in Local Economies, tagged Michael Shuman, Small-Mart Revolution on June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In preparation for the CONNECT Event with Keynote Speaker Michael Shuman, the Hannah Grimes Center will host The Small-Mart Revolution book discussion. The Small-Mart Revolution details dozens of specific strategies small and home-based businesses are using to successfully out-compete the world’s largest companies. And it shows how consumers, investors, policymakers, and organizers can effectively revitalize [...]
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