place-based (local) economics

Founded in 2010, SCF is run as a community benefit society, a type of co-operative, whereby the farm business is owned by roughly 400 members of the public and counting.

A Venezuelan cooperative network that recently received the “Alternative Nobel Prize” tells its story.

A look at a multi-stakeholder cooperative with a worker-owner member class and bylaws that state neutrality toward union formation.

Yavor Tarinski’s Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society challenges your mind on the most significant questions such as direct democracy, de-growth, solidarity economy, and libertarian municipalism.

Across the world, a quiet revolution is emerging. Countless grassroots groups, civil society organizations and individuals are coming together to forge a more hopeful path to the future: away from the destructive global consumer culture, towards healthy communities grounded in strong local economies.

Employee ownership, particularly in the form of worker cooperatives, offers a solution for business transitions.

Grocery co-ops have grown during the pandemic, with overall sales increasing 10% during 2020, a year full of supply and social disruptions.

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.

An interview with Gene Homicki, co-founder and CEO of myTurn, an online platform for managing libraries of things.