- How grocery co-ops across New England thrived despite the pandemic, Shareable (Mar 02, 2022)
This article focuses on information specific to United States community action. See Towards sustainable economies for a topic overview.
Resources[edit | edit source]
Networks[edit | edit source]
Data Commons Cooperative, membership is made up of mission-driven organizations that are organizing toward a more just and equitable economy.
Grassroots Economic Organizing
How to's[edit | edit source]
- How to Start A Worker Co-op, July 27, 2011, Shareable
Legal resources[edit | edit source]
Research[edit | edit source]
- Y Combinator Research, study of basic income in the United States
Video[edit | edit source]
more video:
Green Jobs Day of Action in Washington DC, on youtube
Other resources[edit | edit source]
- The Cleveland Model community-wealth.org
- Educate and Empower: Tools For Building Community Wealth, democracycollaborative.org
- REconomy Project: Building Resilient Local Economies, transitionus.org
Community currencies activism[edit | edit source]
Commons Currency Project, Imagining a Great Lakes Commons Currency
Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle[edit | edit source]
Drop Box Finder - earth911.com - The Swap-o-matic - US Composting Council - Post-Landfill Action Network, national movement of student leaders working towards a world without waste. - GrassRoots Recycling Network - The Repair Association - The Truth About Plastic
- Wikipedia:Recycling in the United States: In 2012 the recycling rate in US was 23.8%. Since there is no national law that mandates recycling, state and local governments often introduce recycling requirements. A number of U.S. states, including California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Oregon, and Vermont have passed laws that establish deposits or refund values on beverage containers while other jurisdictions rely on recycling goals or landfill bans of recyclable materials.
News sources: Northeast Recycling Council Blog
Sharing[edit | edit source]
Pets to Share - City Dog Share
Cohousing
Cohousing Association of the United States, site includes a Cohousing Directory
Resources
- Creating Cohousing, Building Sustainable Communities, by Kathryn McCamant & Charles Durrett, newsociety.com
- How To Start A Tool Library (or any other type of Lending Library), Share Starter
- Local Tools, rental and tool library software
Maps
Find an Existing Tool Library, localtools.org
Comment
- S400: Bringing Community to the Micro-level – The Opportunities of Urban Cohousing, 2012 March 5, citytank.org
Social inclusion[edit | edit source]
Strike Fast Food, Low Pay Is Not OK - We Are Visible, empowering the homeless via social media
Sustainable livelihood[edit | edit source]
Resilience Circles are small groups where people come together to increase their personal security through learning, mutual aid, social action, and community support.
News and comment
2019
Mar 26 The benefit workers want most is less work[1]
2015
Feb 17 Can We Earn a Living on a Living Planet?[2]
News and comment[edit | edit source]
2021
Guaranteed Income Increases Employment, Improves Financial and Physical Health, Mar 3...[3]California news
Racism in finance has sparked a grassroots response. Meet the Boston Ujima Project. Jan 5...[4]Massachusetts
2020
Accessible local alternatives to Amazon Prime, Apr 23[5]
"Funky around the edges, humanly fermented, alive". How the Park Slope Food Coop makes a commons (and great produce), Jan 13...[6]New York City news
2019
Grassroots democracies form North American coalition, Oct 23[7]
Cooperative bookstore launches in Hamtramck, Michigan, Jul 26[8]
2017
Basic income experiments: Silicon Valley's Y Combinator Research has completed a feasibility study in Oakland, California, and is now finalizing the design of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that is to involved 3,000 participants in two US states, Oct 19[9]
Niki Okuk on Cooperative Economics in African-American Communities, Sep 20[10]
Bay Area Nonprofit Project Equity Transforms Businesses Into Worker-Owned Cooperatives, Apr 17...[11]California news
Austin Council Votes to Boost Worker Cooperatives, Apr 18...[12]Texas
Why AnyShare is the First 'Complete' Cooperative in the US, Mar 21[13]
This Co-op Gives Formerly Incarcerated People Jobs and Community, Feb 1[14]
2014
Another World Emerging? Well, Maybe. Oct 15[15]
It Takes an Ecosystem: The Rise of Worker Cooperatives in the US, Jul 16[16]
See also[edit | edit source]
- Towards sustainable economies
- New York State, Towards sustainable economies
- USA#Community currencies activism
- Community involvement USA
- USA#Ethical consumerism
- USA#Free stuff
- USA#Localism
- USA#Sharing
- USA#Sustainable livelihood
- Ohio#Towards sustainable economies, The Cleveland model
- Green New Deal
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many USA location pages
External links[edit | edit source]
- Humanity Forward, non-profit organization created by Andrew Yang W, dedicated to promoting the ideas he campaigned on during his run for President in the 2020 election, such as UBI and data privacy. The non-profit will also seek to engage and activate new voters while supporting like-minded down-ballot candidates, following the model of the pro-Bernie Sanders 501(c)4 Our Revolution. Yang also announced that the organization would give away $500,000 in UBI to the residents of a (currently unspecified) town in New York to demonstrate the benefits of UBI. W added 14:12, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
- The Democracy Collaborative added 10:51, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
- Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
- Democracy at Work Institute
- Green for All, an organization whose stated goal is to build a green economy while simultaneously lifting citizens out of poverty. W
- New Economy Coalition
- U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG)
- Community-Wealth.org
- Local Initiatives Support Corporation, US non-profit community development financial institution (CDFI) that supports community development corporations in 30 urban areas and dozens of rural areas in the United States. LISC's development strategy, launched in 2007, is called Building Sustainable Communities (BSC). LISC's programs are designed to meet BSC's five goals:
- Expanding Investment in Housing and Other Real Estate
- Increasing Family Income and Wealth
- Stimulating Economic Development
- Improving Access to Quality Education
- Supporting Healthy Environments and Lifestyles W