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place-based (local) economics

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.

December 20, 2021

How to Start a Library of Things

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

November 22, 2021

Community Owned Real Estate

Ebony Gustave interviews East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Executive Director Noni Sessions for the Cooperative Journal podcast.

November 15, 2021

How Sister Midnight Aims to Create a Music Venue Powered by its Community

Sister Midnight is an independent label that recently became a Community Benefit Society and has begun to raise funds to buy The Ravensbourne Arms, which they plan to convert into a community-owned music venue and pub.

November 11, 2021

Mapping the US Solidarity City

Professor Maliha Safri discusser her research into post-capitalist economic organizing in NYC, and how people of color are forming and participating in a majority of the postcapitalist practices we studied in NYC.

July 1, 2021

Rethinking the Farming Economy

A Vermont nonprofit is connecting independent farms with buyers and distributors, reducing food surplus and working to eliminate food insecurity.

January 11, 2021

Investing in Real Cooperation

Matt Cropp talks about what the Oak Street Cooperative and Vermont Real Estate Co-op have been up to.

August 13, 2020

Learning from the Earth

OrganaGardens is a landscaping cooperative that uses a unique structure to account for collective ownership as well as mutual care and transformation.

April 16, 2020

The Ideas That Are Lying Around

We need to make some big changes to the way we think and act after covid-19.