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Open Co-ops: Inspirations, Legal Structure and Tools

Open Co-ops: Inspirations, Legal Structure and Tools

this post originally appeared in Stir Magazine [https://www.stirtoaction.com/magazine] illustration by Daksheeta Pattni [https://www.daksheetapattni.com/] In 2002 I described United Diversity [https://uniteddiversity.coop] as “a member owned and stakeholder governed network of mutual advantage.” In truth, it was aspirational. At the time, the flexible

United Diversity at the London Permaculture Festival

United Diversity at the London Permaculture Festival

I’m off to Cloud Cuckoo Land Festival [https://uniteddiversity.coop/projects/cloud-cuckoo-land/] now, but thought I’d better whack this presentation I did at the London Permaculture Festival [https://londonpermaculturefestival.com/] up first. I gives a brief history of United Diversity plus details of our exciting plans

TOGETHER. How cooperatives show resilience to the crisis

TOGETHER. How cooperatives show resilience to the crisis

This great new documentary, featuring Mondragon [https://uniteddiversity.coop/2013/07/31/the-mondragon-co-operative-corporation/] and other co-operative [https://uniteddiversity.coop/category/cooperative/] inspirations shows how it is not just financial co-operatives who are more resilient to crisis [https://uniteddiversity.coop/2013/07/30/financial-co-

The Mondragon Co-operative Corporation

The Mondragon Co-operative Corporation

The Mondragón Corporation [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation] is an inspiration. The largest cooperative [https://uniteddiversity.coop/category/cooperative/] in the world, they are a federated network of over 250 co-operative businesses who together are the seventh biggest group in Spain. They employ over 80,000 people,

Time to replicate WIR Bank?

Time to replicate WIR Bank?

The WIR Bank [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIR_Bank] in Switzerland has been successfully running for over 60 years. It was started in the 1930s in response to the great economic crises of the time. Studies have shown [https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Money_and_Economics/Community_Currencies/WIR] that

Financial co-operatives: A safe bet in a crisis

Financial co-operatives: A safe bet in a crisis

The Co-opreative News [https://www.thenews.coop/] has reported [https://www.thenews.coop/article/financial-co-operatives-safe-bet-crisis] news about a study by the International Labour Organization [https://www.ilo.org/] calledResilience in a downturn: The power of financial cooperatives [https://www.ilo.org/empent/Publications/WCMS_

How Cooperatives and Community Enterprise Will Get Us Out of this Gigantic Mess

How Cooperatives and Community Enterprise Will Get Us Out of this Gigantic Mess

I’ve posted this excellent talk by Janelle Orsi [https://janelleorsi.com/] from the brilliant Sustainable Economies Law Center [https://www.theselc.org/] a few times over on our facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/uniteddiversity]. The whole presentation is well worth watching, but I particularly like it when she

The Take: Occupy. Resist. Produce.

The Take: Occupy. Resist. Produce.

As I’ve said before, The Take is one of the best films I’ve seen. We’re screening it at 7.30pm on Saturday December 15th @ Sessions of Spontaneity

Dialstation: Cheap International Calls from Your Mobile

Ever wondered what the best way to make international calls from your mobile [https://dialstation.com] is? Well, the answer is Dialstation [https://dialstation.com]. There are lots of ways to an initiate a call (including a facebook app [https://apps.facebook.com/dialstation/]) but the one I’ve personally

Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war

Venezuela Bolivariana: People and the struggle of the 4th world war

This is a great documentary about Venezuela. See also The Revolution Will Not Be Televised [https://uniteddiversity.com/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised/]

Commons Creation meeting

The first Commons Creation [https://commonscreation.org] meeting took place on Sunday 21st January: So far I’ve got some great groups signed up to the collective: Peace Not War: https://peace.fm [https://peace.fm/] The Synergy Project: https://thesynergyproject.org [https://thesynergyproject.org/] OneTaste: https://onetaste.co.uk

Housing Co-ops

Just sent this out to a couple of lists… People keep asking me about Housing Co-ops 🙂 Here are a few good links: Finding Housing Co-ops in London https://www.cch.coop/coopinfo/london.html https://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/iane/coops/coopsdirlondon.html How to set up