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August 7, 2025

The Role of Solidarity Finance in Sustainable Local Development in Ecuador

This study explores the role of solidarity finance in promoting local development and the empowerment of marginalized communities through financial inclusion and access to community credits. It focuses on how solidarity-based financial mechanisms provide accessible credit with fewer barriers, fostering productive activities and economic resilience.

August 4, 2025

An Important New Book on the Praxis of Social Ecology

Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond, from Pluto Press, offers a compelling synthesis of ethnographic research, journalism and political analysis, combining the author's field research and her own activist experiences in a highly engaging and superbly accessible manner.

July 28, 2025

All About the Soft Chaos Cooperative

In this episode, Squinky and Jess from Soft Chaos dive into the world of worker co-ops and how collective ownership fuels their bold, genre-defying work. Get a behind-the-scenes look at how they create deeply personal, experimental games and interactive art that push the boundaries of play.

July 24, 2025

A Localism Manifesto

I argue for giving every community—left, right, and center—more freedom to craft their own policies without central government interference. Nearly a century ago, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote about the importance of 50 state laboratories for democracy through federalism. I would prefer we think about the 36,000 laboratories in our cities, towns, and villages.

July 21, 2025

What It's Like to Work at a Tech Worker Co-op

Catalyst Cooperative is an all-remote, 8-person, tech worker cooperative based in North America. The coop was founded in 2017 with the mission to make US energy system data more accessible. Catalyst's main objectives are to curate the free, open-source Public Utilities Data Liberation project (PUDL) and help clients navigate a myriad of energy or environmental data needs.

July 17, 2025

B Corps Are One Piece of a Complex Puzzle

B Lab’s research suggests that certification has at least struck a chord with consumers. While worker co-ops seem to perpetually struggle with a lack of “awareness” around the model, one in three consumers in Canada and the US reportedly understand the B Corp label.

July 14, 2025

What It’s Like to Farm as a Co-op

In this video farm tour, we visit Ferme Coopérative Tourne-Sol, a thriving co-op farm just outside Montreal, Quebec. Farmers Dan Brisebois and Emily Board walk us through their seed-growing operation, discuss how their worker co-op farm was founded, and share how it functions today.

July 10, 2025

Systems are breaking—And that’s our opportunity

We can position ourselves as the seeds of the next system, or more realistically, as the scaffolding of survival in a world of cascading crises.

July 7, 2025

Cecosesola and the Art of Commoning within Capitalist Markets

Cecosesola is a remarkable federation of Venezuelan cooperatives that artfully manages multiple ventures as commons while deeply immersed within a system of capitalist markets. 

July 3, 2025

Drivers of Higher Care Quality at Home Care Cooperatives

Increasing the prevalence of perceived quality drivers through the expansion of home care cooperatives, the adoption of cooperatives’ practices by traditional agencies, and the implementation of industry-wide policies that facilitate them may significantly improve care quality across the home care sector.