A radical cooperative press in Boston, since 1977.

The "B Corp" (B for "beneficial) is growing in popularity among mission-driven businesses.

A new report from the Insitute for Local Self-Reliance explores democratic routes to energy independence.

Green economics and racial justice

The Humboldt Exchange Community Currency

A Biodiesel Worker Cooperative describes the world of globalized biofuels.

A pictoral history of Depression-era scrip. Fascinating information about the historical uses of community currency in the U.S.

People's Grocery is making speedy progress from a mobile organic food service cooperative towards developing a worker-owned cooperative grocery store in West Oakland in which local food and sustainable agriculture will be prioritized in a community health model centered on nutrition education for low-income residents of the community. At the same time, the cooperative is taking their business development goal beyond the single cooperative grocery store to a broader community development initiative focused on establishing a commercial and health service complex.

As labor organizers, we struggle in the field every day to improve the lives of workers; we are in search of tools and alternatives for working people that will meet the needs of today's casualized and insecure workforce, with shrinking or negligible benefits. It is in the spirit of innovative leadership that we propose that the labor movement use worker cooperatives, an alternative organizing strategy added to more traditional labor organizing methods, as a means of returning control of their lives to the American working people.