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It’s time for everyone who cares about our troubled country to face the depth of the systemic crisis we now confront as a nation. We must step back from the daily fray and ask: How do we actually get on a path to the kind of society—and world—we’d like now and for future generations?

During recent Kwanzaa celebrations there was a call for collective economics.

We’re looking for new team members at Sol! Do you like biking? Feel passionate about a democratic workplace? Excited about being part of a start-up and the first pedicab cooperative? Read on!

HOST A DAWN INTERN AT YOUR COOPERATIVE?

The Democracy at Work Network (DAWN) peer advisor training program is starting its sixth year!  We again have a fantastic group of experienced worker-owners from around the country. Part of their training will be an internship where they can practice providing peer advice in a real-life setting.

Creative Commons is seeking a Director of Development to lead development on behalf of the organization. We are laying the foundations for the next phase of our work, and need you to not only help us raise funds, but shape how we do it.

I think Buen Vivir is a proposal aimed at making visible and expressible aspects of reality that are ignored by the dominant paradigm. It is a proposal from a radical and spiritual perspective of ecology, and is logically incompatible with development and industrialization.

Overcoming many obstacles in a shaken Kenya, we had an amazing launch today of the third community currency in Kenya! Kangemi-Pesa is also tradeable with Gatina-Pesa their neighboring community, who came out in force to support the program along with the area chief.

Today we ask: what’s the difference between worker cooperatives and ESOPs?[...]

We are pleased to announce the release of Beyond Business as Usual: Putting Cooperation to Work in Austin, TX. This groundbreaking report explores the history, current impact, and potential of the cooperative economy in Austin.

Good Jobs First seeks a full-time, graduate-level intern for our Washington, D.C. office. Good Jobs First is a national resource center that works with community, labor, and environmental organizations; economic development officials; and public policymakers to promote corporate and government accountability in economic development.

The transformation to fair and sustainable regional economies requires place-based, citizen-driven tools. The principles behind these tools are universal, but their effective application will be shaped by the landscape, the people, the history, and the culture of each particular region.

One of the convictions behind this booklet is that the language used in contemporary Canada to discuss co-operatives has become somewhat stale, rigid, and superficial. Co-operatives are highly adaptable and complex institutions; their essence cannot easily be captured by any simple formula or list of characteristics.