Tag: Cooperatives

  • Development Through Cooperatives

    Development Through Cooperatives

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  • A cooperative for the 21st Century

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    This post is focused on a segment of a more far ranging article in DieM25 regarding the platform economy and unionization in the European Union. We focus on how, in Germany, a group of food delivery riders set up the Kolyma2 collective that has been able to successfully operate on a local level with the…

  • East Side Freedom Library On-Line Launch of “Grocery Activism”

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    Video premiere on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Craig Upright will join East Side Freedom Library’s Peter Rachleff in conversation on Thursday, June 4 at 7:00 p.m. for the launch of his new book, Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota. The event is part of the Ramsey County Historical Society’s History Revealed…

  • The Transvida Cooperative

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    This article on the RioOnWatch site really caught my attention. It shows how even the poorest communities can benefit by forming a cooperative. Cooperativa Transvida Promotes Recycling and Environmental Awareness In 2011, then engaged in various projects through her church, Oliveira saw a group of residents picking through trash in the community in search of…

  • The Cooperative Movement

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    Although this article is about the case for establishing energy cooperatives in rural Pakistan, it has a lot of great information about cooperatives in general. Mr. Ali was kind enough to give me permission to post his article in full. You can read more of his articles at The News.  February 1, 2020 The cooperative…

  • Coop Helps Improve Environment

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    Some of you may have already heard of Fertile Ground out of Oklahoma. I feel like I’ve come across that name before. In any case the company came up in my news feed when an Oklahoma City station aired a segment about them. It seems the company that had been contracted by three local cities…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Honey Cooperatives Help Afghan Women

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    I ran across this inspiring article from the Deccan Chronical on how honey cooperatives are helping Afghan women, in a formerly Taliban region, take control of their lives. In the mountainous central province of Bamiyan, one of the country’s least developed but most liberal regions, beekeeping complements its only other commercial crop, potatoes, and gives rural…