Working Alone Together
By Pat Conaty, Grassroots Economic Organizing
For many, a permanent state of social economic uncertainty is the new normal.
Resilience Imperative
By Justin Ritchie, Pat Conaty, The Extraenvironmentalist
In Extraenvironmentalist #88 we discuss the Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy with co-authors Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty. We talk about ways to create a decentralized, cooperative steady-state economy that can work as an alternative to the highly globalized and financialized economic paradigm of today.
How Do Community Land Trusts Relate to the Commons?: Part 1
By Pat Conaty, The Commons Transition
CLTs are a strategy that removes land from the housing market without disconnecting residents from their interest in owning, maintaining, and improving buildings.
Co-operative Commonwealth: De-commodifying Land and Money Part 3
By Pat Conaty, The Commons Transition
Community Land Trusts, JAK, CoopHab and the WiR Co-operative Bank demonstrate today that there are viable ways to deliver access to land and money as a democratic commons that eliminates usury.
Co-operative Commonwealth: Decommodifying Land and Money, Part 2
By Pat Conaty, The Commons Transition
Usury is little discussed today but it is crucial in policy terms.
Co-operative Commonwealth: Decommodifying Land and Money, Part 1
By Pat Conaty, The Commons Transition
Access to land and the cost of that access are essential to the provision of affordable housing. Likewise, access to money, and the cost of that access, are issues fundamental to economic health.