Cool comic on "Smart Local Energy Systems" - I particularly enjoyed the bit about how energy #cooperatives can help create trust between energy users and suppliers.
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=sles-comic-digital.pdf&site=18
Discovered that #CoOp app works in one branch but not the other in Stroud as they’re not the same legal version of CoOp. Branding is confusing sometimes.
We just sent out a newsletter with a bunch of stories from the cooperative ecosystem that caught our attention—find the web version here: https://www.village.one/garden/newsletter/039-bits-bobs-and-co-ops
Mentioned in it: @fontstand @limeleaf @101lab @GenoDigital @Greenheart @demnext @bocoup @hostsharing @subvertworld @workers_coop @tazgetroete and more
The photo is from a documentary about the Liberated Broom cooperative, also linked in the newsletter.
"It is important that we not collapse these differences even while recognizing a set of shared structural forces and logics. This is especially important as non-profits themselves are vulnerable to these structural forces. For example, non-profit organizations continue to feel impacts of the recession in both the increased demands for basic social services as well as the shrinking of government and foundation funding and individual donations. Many small organizations made up of poor and working-class members have dissolved or folded into larger non-profits. A lack of funding has led such groups to give up vital infrastructure and compensated staff positions, but the work continues through volunteer labor, in members' homes or donated space."
— Incite! Women of Color Against Violence: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, pp. xviii-xix
If non-profits are to serve as a tool for liberation and reconstruction, then they need their own productive forces to call upon for fueling their efforts. Subjugation to capital, be it directly through philanthropic foundations, indirectly through (capitalist) government funding, or even tortuously through individual donors --themselves dependent upon exchanging their labor to capital for the money they donate-- necessarily clips the non-profit's wings. It is always contorting itself upon the whims of capital. Perhaps a partnership between non-profits and co-ops, both worker owned and operated, could serve to foster such a development of productive forces beyond --or at least less hindered by-- the antagonistic ruling capitalist class's reach. In this model, non-profits could serve as a stabilizing foundation upon which less certain co-operative proletarian endeavors could build.
This is starting to look nice. Mid-April is still our target launch. If you want to get notified then feel free to sign up at https://apply.coop!
Note: This is all demo/fake data you see in the screenshot.
Cap al punt verd amb Ecotxe!
A @terranostra han utilitzat un dels nostres cotxes compartits per dur diverses coses que ja no s'utilitzen.
Vols saber-ne més?
Dear @VillageOneCoop
We, at @limeleaf, appreciate the 
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039: Bits, bobs and co-ops
https://www.village.one/garden/newsletter/039-bits-bobs-and-co-ops
The most communist FOSS company
｢ Igalia is an open-source consultancy with Spain headquarters focusing on browsers, "client-side web technologies, " and much more. They're the company contracted to work on Servo, the open-source independent browser engine after Mozilla dropped it. So far so good. The company was founded in 2001, and now employs 140 people in 25 countries; they are a pretty big player in the open-source space ｣
Proposta: invece di creare la versione EU di Silicon Valley usiamo questo momento di risveglio digitale per creare una stack tecnologico distribuito e resiliente.
Invece di basare il progresso sulla concorrenza basiamo il progresso tecnologico sulla cooperazione.
Questo distruggerebbe l'egemonia tecnologica USA, perche queste tecnologie verrebbero adottate anche dai paesi dell'Africa, dall'America del sud e tanti altri.
Excited to be at the launch event for Asterisk Labs - the UK's first academic research co-op! (And member of @workers_coop !)
#UK - Supermarket chain to bring in Aldi price match across 2,400 stores
> Co-op is matching #Aldi prices on over 100 everyday essentials, marking the largest price-match initiative of its kind in UK convenience stores.
> Co-op managing director Matt Hood said: “I am very clear that, in this current economic climate, price is most often the deciding food shopping factor for our members and customers.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/co-op-aldi-price-match-starts-b2720704.html #coop #economy
A new episode of the Limeleaf podcast is up. We talk about our first year as a co-op and where we're going from here. Get it in your ears now at https://limeleaf.coop/podcast/episode-03/!
Responsable de comunicació, xarxes socials i estratègia de comunitat a @critic.
Via @coopstreball
#SocialMedia #Feina #Treball #Coop #Cooperativa #ESS #Facebook #TikTok #Meta #X ßIndtagram #Whatsapp #Telegram
Finally joined Karma Co-op for groceries. What with US tariff threats, Loblaws greedflation, and environmental concerns, it’s great to have an alternative.
Really like the amount of Ontario produce, plus the zero waste focus: items like vinegar, olive oil, and detergent can be bought in bulk and put in re-useable bottles.
Located near Bloor & Bathurst in Toronto.
Sabies que si ets soci/a d' @onamediterrania també pots pujar al cotxe elèctric compartit d'Ecotxe?
És molt fàcil! Aquí t'ho explicam:
Do you know of any self-organized, bottom-up, locally-rooted educational organizations?
I am asking this because I am talking intensely with @ceci about ideas and dreams we have for our home city, #Sanremo, Italy.
We are both coming to the conclusion that an autonomous, independent, cooperative, critical, and deeply rooted university is one of the very very few projects that could give young people in the area a real chance not to emigrate.
As we are also both deeply in love with fringe academia, it would also be the only reason for us to somehow maintain a bond with our homeland.
Please, boost and share this, and send us any kind of suggestions! We particularly welcome Italian initiatives.
A cooperative organization isn't a panacea. American cooperatives are filled with members who've compartmentalized coop method within their dominant paradigm of neoliberalism, short-sighted, self-seeking, self-serving, hyper-individualistic, class competitive and capable of predating upon their own.
REI Punished Unionized Workers in Berkeley by Holding Back Raises, Labor Board Alleges
#Culture #Politics #Coop #Economics #Cooperative #EconomicJustice
https://www.kqed.org/news/12032259/rei-punished-unionized-workers-in-berkeley-by-holding-back-raises-labor-board-alleges
