Imagining a currency that values the health of the river

I am working with two currency experts who will fly down to talk to Warren Wilson College if they find the prospect of creating a currency as a way to value their existing non cash economy. On a related project I am working with a two spirit Cherokee on a memorial to Buncombe County’s first massacre.

That massacre, I recently discovered, was launched on what is now the land owned by our intergerational family and land based family business; glamping and two Airbnbs, and retreats.

I already knew that the farm was part of the site of a native village of the Cherokee’s ancestors who lived here for at least five thousand years. There was a archaeological dig that some indigenous feel made it impure in the part of the village on the campus. So we have the only village site that is intact. They like to have access those sites in order to commune with their ancestors. We are in conversation about how to make that easy for them.