S7 E12: Reimagined Economies
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Composting Capital and Liberating Land
- In the East Bay Hills outside Oakland, a group of organizations is working to "compost capital" and "liberate land."
- The area was a logging town in the 1860s, and all the old-growth trees were cut down in about six years.
- Desiree Fontenot, co-director of Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, is leading a walk through the 43-acre property.
- Movement Generation is a grassroots group based in the Bay Area that promotes a just transition to a regenerative economy.
- The property is part of the legacy of land theft through the Homestead Act of the 1860s.
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