Category: New Economy

  • Documenting the most Striking and Inspiring Cooperatives in Five Continents

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    They say the best way to learn is to teach.  It couldn’t be more true.  Writing a blog post is the process of condensing a lot of information into an easily digestible form.  As a result, I’m learning right along with my readers.  Here’s something I didn’t know: Cooperatives are not a marginal phenomenon: More…

  • Are you interested in starting a coop?

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    From the large amount of material coming into my feed daily, it appears more and more grassroots organizations are springing up around the country dedicated to building a robust cooperative sector.  United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives is just such an organization. The USFWC was founded in 2004 when a core of worker co-op members…

  • Covilli Brand Organics inaugurates health clinic for workers

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    Fair Trade makes a difference in the lives of workers.

  • Alternative Economy Promotes Gender Equality in Northern Syria

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    There is so little positive news coming out of Syria these days that I was surprised and heartened when I found this article published in Kurdishquestion.com.  Although it specifically covers the efforts in Rojava, a region in Northern Syria, to establish grassroots assemblies and cooperatives, it speaks to the larger question of how to democratise all…

  • This Week’s New Economy News

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    There are a lot of interesting and exciting things happening on the new economy front this week.  This from New Zealand: Jan. 24 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand’s top 30 cooperatives contribute more than $42.3 billion per annum to the economy in revenue, a new report has found. The report, by industry body Cooperative Business New…

  • Natural Dyes Save Lives

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    Conventional textile manufacturing is poisonous to its workers and to the land, but there are alternatives. A new crop of small businesses is investing in organic farming, natural dyes and a transparent supply chain that encourages shoppers to think about the effect of their purchases — and they’re selling their products online and in a…

  • Great News On the Co-op Front

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    Wallaces Farmer posted an article on the USDA’s recently released annual report on co-operatives. USDA recently released its annual report on cooperatives, saying the nation’s top 100 co-ops again set a record for net income in 2015. Net income for the nation’s agricultural cooperatives soared by 14% last year, according to data released Oct. 5…

  • Attacks of the “Killer Algorithms”

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    Reposted From The Medical Quack Blog: The 401k Plan, is one of the products that consumers buy that Americans don’t know the price and they don’t know the quality.  Once again we return to the world of complexities and so how did it get that way?  Models and software that execute algorithms and formulas that manage…

  • Consumer Cooperative Movement on Iron Range

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    Cindy Kujala, a staff writer for the Community Information Network, writes about the consumer cooperative movement on the Iron Range in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s: The consumer cooperative movement on the Range was initially developed almost entirely by Finnish immigrant groups and although second and third generation Americans of other ethnic groups eventually contributed to the…