Posts tagged cooperatives
Electricity cooperatives have served rural America since 30s. In this renewable era, it's time to update and strengthen them
The Centre for Democratic Business knows that collaborative enterprises are not a "single species" - they’re an "ownership ecology"
The college, the workshop, the lending circle, the artists' guild... from Rome to Siberia and beyond, a short history of cooperation and mutuality
54% of young people can’t name a cooperative. But 66% want companies to act ethically with workers and consumers. Can these poll numbers come together?
The cost-of-living crisis is bringing out a lot of cooperative and collective innovation - especially in Wales
There's many models, digital and social, whereby communities can organise themselves. But do they dance? DisCO makes collectives funky
“We are a mirror for conventional companies - they do not see a very beautiful image". The wild success of the Mondragon cooperatives
From Kerala via Argentina to Bologna, platform cooperatives are thriving (and providing solid pathways to the good life)
Denmark has a grand tradition of cooperative farming - but Andelsgaarde wants to make it as easy as gym membership
A cooperative model of homes for students, collectively managed and at affordable rents. SEASALT in Brighton shows the way
Common Knowledge crafts digital tools that enable communities and causes to make radical changes
How do we eat out, post-Covid-19? "Community restaurants" could combine nutritious food with local food supplies
Groups can chat, work or trade. And if they pooled their data on their own cooperatively owned platform, they’d be so much more powerful
“Funky around the edges, humanly fermented, alive”. How the Park Slope Food Coop makes a commons (and great produce)
Learn, baby, learn! The DisCO Inferno has come to town (meaning Distributed Cooperative Organisations). You'll never work the same way again
At Stir To Action's "Playground for the New Economy" Festival, there were examples and inspirations aplenty
Open: 2019 brings together activists and coders - to explore how to collaborate at a big scale
The Commons Platform wants to build an alternative media infrastructure - but starting from values first
Defining the DNA of cooperation, from Open:Coop's Oliver Sylvester-Bradley
How to be a Network Entrepreneur: be ready to lose control, open up to discomfort, relate to those different from you