place-based (local) economics

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.

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

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.

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.

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

How Puerto Ricans are using their long experience of mutual aid to counter government austerity.