Greetings from the GEO Collective
14 Ways to Help Build the Solidarity Economy with GEO
GEO's Collective members send Season's Greetings and Many Thanks for your Support! Here are 14 Ways You Can Help Even More.
Dec 6
Intentional Communities and Solidarity Economics
The Fall GEO Theme seeks to deepen awareness and understanding of the strong connections between solidarity economic activists and members of intentional communities through the common work they are doing. There are a variety of intentional communities:
Aug 26
Advancing the Development of Worker Co-ops (ADWC) 2013
Focus: Self-financing and Inter-cooperative Financing for Worker Co-ops
The topics presented at the ADWC pre-conference to the 2013 ECWD (Updated with 2 New Articles)
Jun 24
GEO 14: The Anniversary Issue
Still truckin' after three decades!
Thirty years later, the GEO Newsletter continues its ongoing work to catalyze worker co-ops and the solidarity economy.
May 4

Recent Articles

Major Mondragon Co-operative Faltering
General Council delcares Fagor Electrodomesticos "not viable"
on Nov 4
Who Can You Trust to Cope With Climate Disasters?
An Interview Series with Keith McHenry
by Len Krimerman on Oct 16
The Valley Alliance of Worker Co-operatives: Exploring the Potential of Co-op Led Development
Preface, 2013
by Adam Trott, by Erbin Crowell on Oct 14
ZEGG-Forum and the Johari Window
The Johari Window and its relevance for ZEGG-Forum work.
by Ina Meyer-Stoll and Achim Ecker on Aug 27
Active Communities
by Michael Kenny on Aug 27
Ganas Community
by SolidarityNYC on Aug 27
Communities Self-Insure for Cooperative Healthcare
by Mira Luna on Aug 27
The Richness of Giving
by Elizabeth Barette on Aug 27
Dancing Rabbit EcoVillage Presentation by Tony Sirna
by Jai Jai Noire on Aug 27
Ganas: Community as Crucible
Daring to Create a Different Kind of Culture
by David Sheen on Aug 27
Growing Cultures of Deep Cooperation
Communities, Solidarity, and Transformational Learning
by Michael Johnson on Aug 27
A Species-Deep Diversity in the Ecovillage
by Jim Schenk on Aug 27
Community, Economics, and Solidarity
Overview for Section I
by Michael Johnson on Aug 27
Community, Economics, and Solidarity
Overview for Section I
by Michael Johnson on Aug 27
The (nineteen-)SIXTIES: Lessons learned, a world transformed
A Book Review / Essay
by Bonnie Shulman on Aug 24
more articles

Blog and Gleanings

Cooperative Networking & Problem Solving (Blog entry)
Dec 9 This keynote address by Robin Seydel from the 2011 California Cooperative Conference deserves to be widely seen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
Research on viability of Worker Co-ops by Erik Olsen (Gleaning)
Dec 9 The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the conjecture that WCs suffer a competitivedisadvantage relative to CFs is not supported by...
Discussion of Some Basics of Solidarity Economics (Gleaning)
Dec 8 People of Shambhala interviews  Michael Johnson, a co-founder of SolidarityNYC and GEO editor, about what he describes as “a very positive,” “non-...
Movements Moving Together, Part 1 (Blog entry)
Dec 6 Some time ago, Paul Hawken accurately proclaimed “a blessed unrest” pulsating across the planet. Few folks were seeing such rich possibilities for a...
How To Convert a Corporation to a Co-op: A New Strategy for Building the New Economy (Blog entry)
Dec 5 By Mike Leung This article deals with the conversion of an existing business to a worker-owned cooperative. Specifically, it lays out a basic...
Occupy Sandy activist on People-Powered Recovery (Gleaning)
Dec 4 Sofia Gallisa Muriente talks about her experience with people-powered disaster relief during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.  Click here to make a...
Wondering about empathy, Part 1 (Blog entry)
Dec 1 Proposition: first, experience; then, words and stories.I walk in the door and speak to Larry. Next Frieda is coming out of the kitchen and calling...
Financing the New Family Farm (Gleaning)
Nov 29 In this video, Rick Juliusson--farmer and owner of Free-Range Consulting--discusses issues concerning financing, ownership and governance of...
A New Direction for the Catholic Church!? #2 (Blog entry)
Nov 26 Pope Francis just released his first encyclical, "The Joy of the Gospel." And indeed, Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, the new...
Yes, a new populist movement is sweeping the country (Blog entry)
Nov 25 By Michael PeckA new socio-political populist movement is sweeping America in reaction to the 2008 financial tsunami of deregulated, greed-based...
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