Members of a new workers co-op popped a bottle of Fairtrade fizz to mark its registration as a company limited by guarantee. EthicalBay plans to build an online ethical marketplace, offering a co-operatively owned alternative to Amazon and eBay.
Battle lines are shaping up across American cities and suburbs today over urban density. On one side stand neighbors and developers who explain that convenient transit, walkable communities, environmental protection and continuing economic growth depend on welcoming more people-per-acre to our communities.
[I]n 1987, South Mountain Company was born as a democratically managed worker cooperative – one of more than 100 such enterprises now registered with the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Still based in Martha's Vineyard, it boasts 32 employees today – 21 of whom are owners, with the remainder on track to gain shares too.
Confrontation can be emotionally challenging. But as the past two years have shown us, the lack of confrontation was one of many problems faced in the Co-operative Group.
Look at this from the perspective of a human resources manager.
We invite you to join us in building a place to pool resources for the shared use and stewardship of the greater community—a space rooted in an ethic of radical collaboration between people of different backgrounds and across disciplines, creating a replicable model for future public spaces outside of the market and the state.
Jackson, Miss.: Not exactly the eco-capital of the world.
The austerity agenda is often presented as inevitable, which is really just a way for corporatists and conservatives to dismiss any discussion or debate.
After several months of research and community engagement, they’re considering a pilot program to showcase the innovative new model. “New model” because what Luhnau and Wilkat have proposed to the community might be a game-changer, but is (not surprisingly) as complex as the social problem it aims to address.
PORTLAND, Maine - A new grocery store opened in Portland Wednesday morning. It's not another chain store, but instead a community-owned model that's seen growth in other parts of the state in recent years.
Like Webb, Carl presumes that the only co-operatives that matter are consumer co-operatives, ignoring other forms such as worker co-operatives. Like Webb, too, he is more concerned with how co-operatives can be used as a political tool than in the real and immediate impact they have on people’s lives.
The worker cooperative is an old model that’s attracting new interest among the swelling precariat masses — youthful and idealistic, but with dwindling chances of findi
The concept of sustainability is ubiquitous, overbearing, and frustrating, as I explained earlier in “The sustainability question: W
Professor David Lippman has saved students a million dollars. David co-wrote two math textbooks and built iMathAS, a free, open-source math assessment and course platform. Nearly all of his work is licensed under a Creative Commons license, allowing others to access, reuse, and edit his work for free.
In June of 2014 the employees of three rural Maine businesses formed the Island Employee Cooperative, Inc and bought out the workplaces from a couple planning on retiring who had run the stores for over 40 years.
Sky Blue found his proper place in the world when he was 19, a college dropout who visited a Virginia commune called Twin Oaks. Fifteen years later, he’s still there, amid a thriving mini-society spread out over 450 acres of farmland, gardens, woods and small factories.
