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The "B" Corp: A New Social Model for Business

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

A new report from the Insitute for Local Self-Reliance explores democratic routes to energy independence.
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In Each Other We Trust

The Humboldt Exchange Community Currency
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Co-op Biodiesel In Global Context

A Biodiesel Worker Cooperative describes the world of globalized biofuels.
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Surviving The Depression With Community Money

A pictoral history of Depression-era scrip. Fascinating information about the historical uses of community currency in the U.S.
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The People's Grocery: Developing a Worker-Owned Community Grocery Store

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.
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A Strategy for Unions and Coops: Toward Building A Labor-Ownership Economy

By Lisa Stolarski

Both Hands in the Soil

There is an ethical imperative to shift the balance of economic power away from corporate Capitalism and toward economies that benefit us all. Beginning with this assumption, I will explain how it is possible for unions and worker cooperatives to collaborate strategically to take market share away from absentee-owned and wage labor capitalist enterprises and place control of resources and production in the hands of communities of working people.

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Unions & Cooperatives: Allies in the Struggle to Build Democratic Workplaces

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.
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