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By leveraging bulk pricing, co-op members get competitive rates alongside support from knowledgeable and experienced organizers without any commitments unless or until an individual household accepts and signs their unique proposal. Plus, the solar installer that our co-op selected worked with a local credit union to offer financing options so that members without cash on hand can still participate.

To date, SUN alone has helped roughly 7,000 households across the U.S. go solar — all thanks to the gumption of two teenagers back in 2007.

In March, a little-known Oakland restaurant got some surprising news: It had won one of the food world’s highest-profile awards.

Every now and then, Jenny Silverman gets a check in the mail made out to the Dorchester Food Co-op, where she volunteers as board treasurer. The community- and worker-owned grocery store, a grassroots effort to increase access to nutritious and culturally relevant food, has been a decade in the making. Last week, the co-op held a pandemic-delayed groundbreaking ceremony.

Cala Farms and Agua Gorda are two of five Latino-led farms that have participated in Shared Ground Cooperative. Shared Ground, which operated out of the Twin Cities, assisted Rodrigo and Javier in finding some of their first markets by aggregating their products to sell larger quantities and a wider variety of products through different market streams such as retail and wholesale customers, local schools, and a community supported agriculture (CSA) subscription.

Workers at the REI Co-op in Berkeley, California are voting on union recognition on Aug. 3. They may soon become the second unionized REI after the SoHo, New York City location won their union election in March. The vote comes after many months of organizing, with workers asking REI on June 24 to voluntarily recognize their intent to organize with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5. 

Spokane Workers Cooperative LCA is the brainchild of Joel Williamson and Luke Baumgarten, who have founded five businesses in Spokane combined, including Williamson’s food cooperative Local Inland Northwest Cooperative Foods and Baumgarten’s coworking office company Fellow Coworking LLC.

With turbulent economic forces piling pressure on small financial institutions, consolidation is a growing trend in the US financial services sector. This has brought many mergers between credit unions – and another outcome is the record number of purchases of banks by credit unions.

In May, Woodbine hosted a regional gathering on “Autonomy and Survival” alongside Symbiosis, a network of grassroots organizations building a democratic and ecological society. Participants agreed to wear masks and take COVID-19 tests prior to attending to minimize the risk of transmitting the coronavirus.

The Hawai’i Free Store is a project of Eating in Public, a localized collective committed to establishing community infrastructure unreliant on State and capitalist systems. In this helpful guide, they speak on the benefits of creating autonomous systems of exchange and provide practical tips you can use to bring your very own free store to life.