Ever wonder how a person comes to live in an ecovillage?
I want to tell you my story about how I came to live at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. Hang on to your hat; my story has twists and turns and some serendipitous coincidences…
About 30 years ago I came across a book called Ecotopia.
Tucked away off River Road, a cluster of modest homes is part of a bold experiment that supporters and participants hope could prove one approach to tackling Montana’s housing affordability woes: cooperative ownership.
First published in 2014, Jessica Gordon Nembhard’s Collective Courage quickly became an important tool for understanding the history of cooperative economic enterprises in the African American community. This now-classic work recounts how African Americans benefited greatly from cooperative ownership and democratic economic participation throughout the nation’s history.
Imagine working tirelessly, day in and day out, only to see your earnings diminish while the company you work for thrives. This is the harsh reality for many gig workers in Ghana, who are struggling under the weight of exploitation by Bolt Food, the dominant delivery company. But the BF Couriers Association is fighting back.
Anticipating winter, we feast on, and preserve, the harvest
Eating communally has a long history at DR, and it remains a strongly held belief that kitchen co-ops are an important aspect of integrating new people into village life and fulfilling an ongoing social need for connection between village members.
In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets that exist in their place. It’s the Kryptonite to the corporate model that extracts wealth from communities. Instead, they’re anchoring capital and resources locally to directly invest in that place and its people – from land to money and finance.
