“The Pilsen cooperative, affectionately called PIHCO (Pilsen Housing Cooperative), arises due to the need for displacement of families in this neighborhood. Low-income families, workers, artists, businesspeople, were being displaced by condominiums, these ‘developers’ were buying homes and building new properties to rent them at higher prices,” explained Karen León, co-president of PIHCO.
With something like two million residents, Iztapalapa is the largest Mexico City borough. It’s also the poorest. The Utopías were promoted most significantly by Clara Brugada, who was Iztapalapa’s mayor before winning the election to be the next mayor of all of Mexico City
Baltimore has become what many consider to be ground zero in the emerging “solidarity economy” and the formation of worker-owned, cooperatively run businesses. There’s something important going on here, and there’s a lot that we can all learn from our fellow workers who are in the cooperative space—people who are living, breathing proof that there’s another way to run a business, that there’s another way to run our economy, and that there are other ways we can treat work and workers.
Date: July 25, 2024Time: 10 - 11:30AM Pacific / 11 AM - 12:30PM Mountain / 12 - 1:30PM Central / 1 - 2:30PM Eastern | 90 minLanguage: This webinar includes simultaneous interpretation from Kurdish to English and from Arabic to English.
We know communities across Canada need more housing – and by starting co-operatives, people can create the housing they need.
As people struggle to find a place to live that fits their budget, the stability and affordability that housing co-ops can offer is becoming more attractive. In a housing co-op, the focus isn’t on individual ownership or increasing property value, but on ensuring members have stable places to live that emphasize community. There just aren’t enough co-ops to meet the demand.
“They chose the name because they wanted it to reflect a turning of orientation towards how we interact with land,” says Co-op member Kay Drudge. “So caring better for the land, learning from the land, rather than just extracting resources from the land.”
The world is facing an acute climate and biodiversity crisis that requires not just a change in energy supply and infrastructure, but also widespread behavioural change. Different studies have shown that members of ecovillages have a lower than average carbon footprint. Vita et al. show, for example, that members of green grassroots initiatives in Italy, Germany, Romania, and Spain have a carbon footprint 16% lower than the average carbon footprint in the same geographical regions.
From the ashes of DCist…Help us launch The 51st!
February 2024 gave us all the worst kind of déjà vu when executives at WAMU abruptly shuttered DCist, fired 16 people, and took the site’s archive offline. Didn’t this all just happen? Didn’t it just come back? There’s literally still “DCist is back, baby” merch sitting on my desk.
