Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - it's maybe not surprising that during WGDR's pledge drive week, Relocalizing Vermont's content will focus on the work local investments do in our community.

Please help keep this and other fine locally produced WGDR shows on the airthis week by calling to make a donation (800-646-9437) or donating online at wgdr.org.

9:00 - 10:00 am
Rich Grogan is the new executive director of Community Capital of Vermont The Barre-based financial institution lends small and medium amounts to low- and medium-income entrepreneurs. He'll explain why their particular lending model is important and tell some stories of Vermont businesses that have benefited from Community Capital's loans.
communitycapitalvt.org

Gwen Hallsmith has written about local money in her books Creating Wealth: Growing Local Communities with Local Currencies and Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense: A Handbook for Investors, Businesses, Finance Professionals, and Everybody Else. She'll co-host the program and talk about the latest that is happening in Vermont with the advocacy for a public bank.
https://www.newsociety.com/Books/C/Creating-Wealth
https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780989599535

10:00 - 10:30 am
We'll change up the usual format to play an interview with ecologist Tom Wessels, who is speaking Thursday night at the Plainfield Town Hall Opera House at 7 pm on "Self-organization, Co-evolution, Resiliency and Stability." It's about lessons for relocalizing and regionalizing that humans can learn from nature.

Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org

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