Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
As capitalism continues to undergo economic and environmental crises, more common projects between the new economy and labor movements may lead to a revival within mainstream labor of the old cooperative commonwealth concept.
Can degrowth be considered a movement? Does degrowth embrace all kinds of movements struggling for a sustainable future?
Some of the public may sympathize with workers like those in No Chains, who want to produce garments, but without being exploited. The question is how?
While progress is never strictly linear, I believe that we are beginning to see an accelerating development of the foundations for a system that looks a lot like the Pluralist Commonwealth, and a growing recognition of how they begin to fit together.
When our book Post-Growth Society was published in 2010 in German, the term was entirely unheard of.
Our Village Life’s exchange system lets people purchase and trade goods and services for time as well as money.
To stabilize their communities and rebuild the household wealth lost in the financial crisis, many Americans—particularly those in once decaying inner city neighborhoods—are turning to the model of co-operative businesses, which emphasize joint ownership by workers and democratic management.
A wide variety of urban commons around the world are challenging the idea that people’s needs can only be met via city governments, urban planners and lawyers.
High-tech tools of exploitation are being repurposed to build a fairer economy.
The good news is that there is an alternative — one that places control and ownership of digital services into the hands of its users. It’s called a platform cooperative, or platform co-op.
Cooperatives, such as this park cafe in Forli, can achieve social as well as economic goals
In October 2009, while expecting another futile climate summit in nearby Copenhagen, a small group of friends in the Kumpula neighborhood of Helsinki got together to discuss practical alternatives.
