Tag: Business

  • Seed Grants Available for Co-ops

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    WBEX announces the availability of grants to anyone interested in forming or expanding a co-operative: The Ohio Cooperative Development Center (OCDC) at The Ohio State University South Centers is offering reimbursement seed grants to groups interested in exploring or growing a cooperative. Cooperatives are legal businesses that form when members of the group can do…

  • Local Cooperatives Purchase Electric Service Territory from Alliant Energy

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    The Lakefield Standard announces 12 local cooperatives have purchased the electric service territory in southern Minnesota from Alliant Energy. SMEC officials on Tuesday announced they have reached a definitive agreement to acquire territory from Alliant Energy. The transaction is contingent upon regulatory approval. Assuming the acquisition is approved by regulators, it is expected to close in 2014. …

  • Traditional Forms of Cooperation Basis for Modern Cooperatives in Sudan

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    In a recent editorial, the Sudan Vision supports using traditional forms of cooperation in their country as the basis for forming modern cooperatives: The cooperatives have been developed in a local context to solve problems that beset ordinary people, based on the traditional mutual work in the specific local environment. Cooperatives movement has its deep-rooted…

  • Parliamentary Enclosure And Open Fields – Wikepedia

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    The Orwell Quote got me curious about the Enclosure Acts.  I looked them up on Wikipedia and was shocked to learn that these acts extinguished the common rights of the peasantry in England and allowed landowners to consolidate and fence off plots of land.  The peasantry was compensated in some cases, although often with land…

  • Organic Groceries Delivered to Your Door

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    Ever thought about trying Green PolkaDot Box, the national door-to-door discount distribution service for organic and non-GMO foods, but just weren’t ready to commit to a full membership? Now’s your chance to take Green PolkaDot Box for a spin. For a limited time, Green PolkaDot Box is offering a $10 Trial Membership. To take advantage of…

  • Organic Farm Poised to Convert Farm Waste to Energy

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    The Advertiser announces that an organic farm intends to produce power for the national grid by using a digester to convert farm waste to energy: Home Farm, at Newby Wiske, which is the northern base for Riverford Organic Farms, has applied to Hambleton District Council to install a sunken and domed 200kW anaerobic digester as part of…

  • Evolutionary Reconstruction of the American Economy

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    I remember commenting to a co-worker, a few years back, that our company’s projected growth of 15% year over year was an inflated and impossible target.  The “growth” the firm was touting wasn’t coming from increased sales but from cuts.  In order to show profitability, service staff was reduced, billing was centralized in states with…

  • Cooperatives Cont’d. – The Emilia Romagna Cooperatives in Italy

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    If you are interested in an alternative econonic model to the traditional corporate capitalism practiced in the US, you’ll find this presentation informative and uplifting.  It highlights the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy which is one of the richest in Europe. Emilia-Romagna is also one of the most cooperative regions in the world. Nearly two out…

  • New Economic System Needed and Growing

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    On the Popular Resistance blog, Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese insist that a new economic system is needed to create a democratized economy: People are realizing that they cannot make it in the current Wall Street dominated corporate capitalist economy.  It is not designed for most people to make it. Rather it is designed for a small…

  • GRITtv Spotlights Cooperatives in the Month of July

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    For the month of July, GRITtv will spotlight a few cooperatives that are growing an alternative economy. This week they are airing Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young of the documentary Shift Change which explores existing cooperatives in the U.S.  “Cooperatives in the United States have existed more or less under the radar. Taking many forms: worker cooperatives, housing…