The Grubhub model is here to stay. But community-based delivery services could be lifelines for small restaurants battling huge commission fees.
Cooperatives
Alternative currencies can be a vehicle for local power and justice.
Changing ownership and wealth distribution, even at a small scale, presents a model for how to ultimately address the climate crisis.
Because of their unorthodox ownership structures, cooperatively owned businesses don’t fit neatly into most lenders’ boxes. So one group decided to build their own source of funding.
A community in Colombia is ditching traditional capitalist models in order to build a collective future.
As climate change threatens rainfed farming, millets offer a way to achieve food, financial, and environmental security.
Brazilian women are breaking into politics by joining together in collective candidacies, which allow politicians to build stronger coalitions and push for progressive change.
Gig workers like flexibility, but get no benefits. Employees get the reverse (usually). There’s a better way with platform cooperatives.
The COVID-19 pandemic has hurt communities all over Mexico. But a network of Indigenous artisans is finding a way to survive during the shutdown.
Due to the coronavirus, dairy producers are dumping thousands of gallons of milk every day. But these New Jersey dairy farmers have a better system.
It’s time to think big about housing. No more evictions and foreclosures. Rent and mortgage cancellation on a grand scale. Twelve million new green housing units in the next 10
Building sustainable communities is the antidote to fear of a changing climate.
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