Community Newspaper Becomes Reader-Owned Cooperative
By Nithin Coca, Shareable
Reader-owners will, collaboratively, determine the future of the publication. It is uncharted territory, but one that readers, staff and editors are all eager to begin.
Tag: cooperatives
The Funky Beauty of the Park Slope Food Co-op
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
The Park Slope Food Co-op is a landmark achievement of what can be achieved through commoning in a co-operative organizational structure.
Imagine a Future of Distributed Cooperatives, or DisCOs
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
DisCOs, by contrast, start from a different set of premises about humanity. They regard we humans as a cooperative species whose members need and want to engage with others, personally. Earned trust among people and open collaboration can then achieve some remarkable things.
Against the Ecosystem
By Josh Davis, Grassroots Economic Organizing
Lately, I’ve been mulling over what I think is a better metaphor for the cooperative movement, or rather, a better metaphor for what I hope to see the cooperative movement become: not an ecosystem, but an organism. Not a collection of disparate entities occupying the same space, each working for its own survival, but rather a single entity with many parts and pieces that play different roles in the functioning and health of the larger whole; a whole which in turn supports each of its constituent parts.
Last Night A Distributed Cooperative Organization Saved My Life: A Brief Introduction to DisCOs
By Stacco Troncoso, Ann Marie Utratel, Hackernoon
So, what do we mean by a DisCO? It stands for Distributed Cooperative Organizations, and it’s a set of organisational tools and practices for groups of people who want to work together in a cooperative, commons-oriented, and feminist economic form.
Co-ops Need Leaders, Too
By Nathan Schneider, P2P Blog
I frequently encounter a notion, among those drawn to cooperatives, that a cooperative should be an amorphous, faceless collective in which old-world skills and norms of leadership can be discarded.
Spanish Cities Make the Case for How Cooperatives Can Address Urban Ills
By Nithin Coca, Shareable
Whether it is growing congestion due to ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft, rising housing costs due to Airbnb, or increasing agitation from gig workers being forced to work longer hours for less pay, cities are at the forefront of the battle to control the exploitative platform economy.
How Jackson, MI is Making the Economy Work for the People
By Steve Rushton, Occupy.com
Jackson, Mississippi, will be “the most radical city on the planet," Chokwe Antar Lumumba, the city's mayor, pledged at the People's Summit in Chicago, where he spoke last July after his landslide election win.
Girona, Spain: Cooperative Breaks the Mould to Provide Renewable Energy
By Transformative Cities Staff, Transformative Cities
In January 2011 Som Energia started to apply for the necessary permits and soon after entered the market as a non-profit cooperative committed to producing 100% renewable energy from hydroelectric, solar, biomass and wind power.
What a Society Designed for Well-Being Looks Like
By Tabita Green, YES! magazine
Instead of focusing only on piecemeal solutions for various forms of social ills, we must consider that the real and lasting solution is a new economy designed for all people, not only for the ruling corporate elite.
Everything for Everyone
By Michel Bauwens, Nathan Schneider, Commons Transition
Cooperatives are a way of introducing people to a radical vision of the commons that also includes familiar stuff like Visa, Associated Press, and the credit union down the street. But I wouldn’t claim cooperatives are sufficient. They’re a starting point, a gateway to more diverse and widespread commoning.
Japan Cooperative Alliance Aims to Give Unified Voice to Diverse Sector
By Nithin Coca, Shareable
How can cooperatives work together? In Japan, cooperatives have banded together to form the Japan Cooperative Alliance (JCA), an umbrella organization that seeks to promote inter-cooperative collaborations, lobby for pro-cooperative policies, and provide better information and education about cooperatives to the general public.