“Communities with Cooperatives, not Communities of Cooperatives”
The idea of Las Indias is that it is a community with cooperative businesses, not a community of cooperatives.
Albert Cañigueral
Falling Fruit: Mapping Free Food Around the World
Today, Falling Fruit is the world’s largest foraging map, and the only one (to my knowledge) to be fully open source and open data.
The Rise of Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives
While the growth of cooperatives in a wide variety of industries is promising, the bar for social transformation needs to be, and has been, raised.
ShareHub: at the Heart of Seoul’s Sharing Movement
Supported by the municipal government and embedded in numerous parts of everyday life in Seoul, the Sharing City project has proven to be an inspiration to city leaders, entrepreneurs, and sharing enthusiasts around the world.
Fair Coop
Imagine an online cooperative that supports economic equality around the world and is free from state control. This is the vision for Fair.coop.
Solidarity Economy Organizing in the Wake of Mike Brown
Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) is a grassroots organization that has taken the lead in organizing the community around the Mike Brown case, systemic racism and building a solidarity economy in St. Louis through a new project called Solidarity Economy St. Louis.
Pillars of the New Economy
Noel on putting new economy ideas and principles into practice, a new model for Econ 101, and more.
#MapJam 2.0 to Put the New Economy on the Map!
This October, the Sharing Cities Network will launch the Second Annual Global #MapJam to bring activists together in cities around the world to connect the dots and map: grassroots sharing projects, cooperatives, community resources, and the commons.
The World’s First Tiny House Hoteliers
The biggest benefit environmentally is that downsizing one’s residential footprint is the most significant and simplest way to minimize one’s energy footprint.
How Land Trusts Can Counter New Urbanism’s Gentrifying Tendencies
There are some exciting aspects to New Urbanism but there are downsides as well, including the displacement of lower-income people as new urbanism moves into an area.
Growstuff Uses Open Data to Help Local Gardeners
Growstuff provides information gathered from local gardeners on crop-planting times, best-suited varietals, and more for the regions growers calls home.
New Urban Ag Study Touts Potential of Small Cities
To see beyond the hype to urban agriculture’s true potential to meet the growing need for healthy food in cities, a recent study published by IOPScience looked at how much food (specifically vegetables) the world’s “urban clusters” could actually produce.