More Legal Innovations for Beating the Bounds
There are a number of legal and organizational innovations transforming co-operatives these days, making them moreoriented to commoning and the common good than just marketplace success.
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Own a Home in Just Four Years? This Co-Op Program Keeps Workers in the Neighborhood
Alex Cedeño quit renting two years ago. Now, he has just two years left until he owns his own home. And it’s all thanks to his employer, Evergreen Cooperatives.
Co-operatives Need to Confront Climate Chaos
The challenges for 2015 are the same ones we’ve failed as a movement to find solutions to, or even act on, for a very long time: climate change and the neoliberal politics of austerity.
Cincinnati’s Experiment with an Economy that Works for Everyone
With the 2016 presidential campaigns underway, economic populism has taken center stage.
A North Carolina Textile Co-Op Gives Immigrant Workers a Stake in the Business
By the example that Opportunity Threads sets, other working people learn new possibilities about how they might end their exploitation and rebuild their lives.
The Ecological Land Co-op
The ELC is based on the idea that smallholdings provide an ideal context for diverse, desirable low-carbon, localised lifestyles that provide satisfying employment, a reliable, home-grown food supply, and a desperately needed model for true sustainability that is in harmony with the local ecology.
Building Hope in Times of Crisis
‘There is a big need for the solidarity movement in Greece. It started in late 2011 and has nearly doubled now to around 400 groups – even more if you add the more loosely networked ones,’ Christos Giovanopoulos says.
The Expanders: Groceries and Greywater
The Worker Coop Academy was open to co-ops at all different stages of development, so some of the participants were start-ups while some have existed as cooperatives for many years.
The Cooperative Principles, The Common Good, and Solidarity
There is a special beauty and power about co-operatives—worker, consumer, and producer.
16 Worker Coops Redefining the Cooperative Movement
The worker cooperative movement has hit a new stride. Here are some of the most interesting and innovative worker cooperatives around.
Open Co-ops
Imagine transparent, democratic and decentralised organising for everyone.
Community Energy in Ireland: Societal Aspects
What is holding Ireland back from becoming more sustainable?