Capitalism built around investor-owned companies is struggling to meet society’s needs. Nathan Schneider (University of Colorado Boulder) argues that cooperatives could do better.
While New Brunswick’s geography and population density may protect us somewhat from the rampant spread of covid, these factors also affect our ability to receive goods from external sources. We are heavily dependent on truck traffic, which is vulnerable to interruptions. How do we respond to this fundamental challenge?
"It’s pointless to recreate obsolete systems, social or economic. We are in a renaissance that will be with us for the future."
Wendy’s blog in March, Becoming the Society We Want, was the first in a series she was writing before COVID-19 changed the world as we know it. At the time, she didn’t expect the most promising opportunity for real change to happen so quickly…but it has. In this edition, Wendy lays out the key elements of a “tried-and-proven formula for building a fair, inclusive, resilient, sustainable new economy that works for the good of all people and our planet”.
This is the first in a series by CECNB’s Executive Director, Wendy Keats, about her decades-long journey of trying to figure out what it will take to build the just, caring, inclusive, sustainable society that we want; and why she’s so excited about what’s coming next.
Duncan Matheson interviews Jason LeJeune on his experience with succession planning for his business, Isaac's Way.
Worker co-operatives are businesses that are owned by the employees. While profit is absolutely a goal, their success is also measured in terms of the difference they make for people or the planet.
500,000 owners of small and medium-sized businesses in Canada plan to retire in the next few years and MOST have no idea how they’re going to transition or sell their business.
You probably wouldn’t know that they operate as nonprofits and any surpluses they make go directly back to increasing the quality/range of services and decreasing costs for members.
We can be a co-operative economy that puts people, the planet, and sustainable economic development at the forefront.