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Strategies for Change

February 13, 2023

Entrepatios: Cooperative housing thrives in Spain

Entrepatios, a cohousing building in Madrid, is now home to 17 families and boasts the title of the first zero carbon footprint housing cooperative in the city.

December 12, 2022

The Job Guarantee and the Solidarity Economy

Prof. Pavlina Tcherneva discusses the benefits of creating a Job Guarantee program, and the role cooperative and community enterprises could play.

August 18, 2022

The Café That’s Upending Capitalism

Cafe Euphoria isn’t just another co-op. Its trans and gender-nonconforming owners are pursuing a vision of radical equality.

July 11, 2022

A Roadmap For High-Trust Communities

Here's a short clip introducing Microsolidarity as a roadmap for high-trust communities.

April 14, 2022

Is Entrepreneurship Intrinsically Capitalist?

Worker cooperatives must develop a workplace culture that emphasizes innovation, creativity, product or market leadership, competitiveness, and risk-taking.

January 20, 2022

Rwanda's Cooperatives of Trust

How cooperatives have helped rebuild the infrastructure and trust of Rwandans after the 1994 genocide.

January 10, 2022

Lessons from Venezuela's Social Economy

Michael Lebowitz shares his perspective on the social economic models in Venezuela and Yugoslavia. Lebowitz highlights the importance of self-actualization through protagonism and how the most successful of these models focused on solidarity over self-interest.

October 18, 2021

Reinventing Commons Governance in Modern Times

I gave the following remarks about commons governance on September 27 as part of the U!REKA Lab Lecture Series.

October 7, 2021

To Win or To Deliberate…That Is the Question

In this blog I argue that root democracy, a central notion of the Growing Democracy Project, is the driving force of democratic deliberation: 1) wanting to hear and understand the other, especially when there is a conflict of any kind; and 2) being willing to disclose what is happening for you and what you want, especially in the context of a difficult problem.

September 6, 2021

The Landscape of Co-op Development

Applying the concept of rugged fitness landscapes to cooperative growth and development.