Grassroots Economic Organizing

South Pacific

May 19, 2025

As the Latrobe Valley Moves Away from Coal Jobs, Could a Green Worker Cooperative Offer a Solution?

In recent years, there’s been renewed interest in the worker co-op model. The Earthworker cooperative network focused on Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. The goal: find new types of employment and products in a coal area undergoing transition.

Worker Cooperatives Utilities (Electric, Water, Phone, Internet) Construction & Repair Networking & Collaboration Linking Opposition & Alternatives South Pacific
April 11, 2024

The Value of Housing Co-operatives in Australia

This paper and video presents findings from the ARC Linkage project, Articulating Value in Housing Co-operatives.

Housing Housing Cooperatives South Pacific
February 25, 2019

Adventures in Remote Simplicity

South Pacific United States local living economies Solidarity Economy Organizing Intentional Communities Housing
March 30, 2018

Introducing Solidarity Economy

Central Asia South Pacific United States Asia (Southeast) cooperative commonwealth Solidarity Economy Organizing Economic Justice Racial Justice Mutual-Aid & Self-Help Groups Community Development
November 17, 2017

Sociocracy and Permaculture

South Pacific United States place-based (local) economics Democratic Dialog & Deliberation Solidarity Economy Organizing Strategies for Change Environmental Justice Peace Building Ecological Processes Land Tenure & Stewardship
May 2, 2016

How a Worker-Owned Tech Startup Found Investors—and Kept Its Values

South Pacific cooperative economy solidarity economy Solidarity Economy Organizing #Occupy Movement Economic Justice Workplace Democracy Worker Cooperatives Information Technology
August 1, 2014

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January 2, 2008

Koreikyo: A Japanese Home Care Co-op Run For and By Seniors

South Pacific Worker Cooperatives Mutual-Aid & Self-Help Groups Healthcare Home Work (cleaning, personal care, etc.)