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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

Homes and Hands - Community Land Trusts in Action

Homes and Hands - Community Land Trusts in Action

We’ll never have a peaceful, just and sustainable world (or, as Charles Eisenstein [https://charleseisenstein.net/] says ‘the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible [https://vimeo.com/66550562]‘) whilst the land that sustains us all is owned and controlled by a tiny minority of the population. We

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

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

Springhill Cohousing

Springhill Cohousing

Last Saturday Gloria and I joined members of the North London Sustainable Housing Partnership [https://nlshp.wordpress.com/] to visit the lovely Springhill Cohousing [https://www.springhillcohousing.com/] community in Stroud. The video above is a quick tour of the site (unfortunately my battery ran out before I got to

Email to Toby Hemenway re: Piracy

Email to Toby Hemenway re: Piracy

NOTE: I’ve had a series [https://uniteddiversity.com/email-to-toby-hemenway-re-piracy/#comment-2996] of increasingly [https://uniteddiversity.com/email-to-toby-hemenway-re-piracy/#comment-3007] great [https://uniteddiversity.com/email-to-toby-hemenway-re-piracy/#comment-3030] responses [https://uniteddiversity.com/email-to-toby-hemenway-

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

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

Commons Creation Collective

UPDATE: the first Commons Creation [https://commonscreation.org] meeting [https://uniteddiversity.com/commons-creation-meeting] was held at Limehouse Town Hall on Sunday 21st January, 2007. A copy of the presentation given can be downloaded here as a PDF [https://files.uniteddiversity.com/United_Diversity/commons-creation.pdf] (1.1Mb)