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From Housing to Health Care, 7 Co-ops That Are Changing Our Economy

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How manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and others are doing business the cooperative way. Read more »

Shareable's Best Alternative Vacation Ideas

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This Shareable vacation guide has lots of cool ideas for a meaningful vacation this summer that just might change your life. Read more »

Seven Reasons Why Co-ops Promote Happiness

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Aside from championing equality, coops can also make you happier. Read more »

How to Make Better Decisions Together

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The success of your project, enterprise, community depends on how you make decisions together. Here's how to make decisions in a way that strengthens relationships, commitment, and the leadership skills of everyone involved. Read more »

Credit Unions on the Rise

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Together member-owned credit unions are bigger than Goldman Sachs with more than $1 trillion in assets. They're on the rise, and you can help them grow even more by backing three bills in Congress. Read more »

San Francisco Startup Offers Green Energy Through Cooperation

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Evan Wynns founded the San Francisco Energy Cooperative in 2011 to make green energy affordable for almost anybody. This is his story. Read more »

The Blueprint for a Cooperative Decade

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The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) helped get the UN to recognize the importance of coops to resilient local economies by making 2012 The International Year of the Cooperative. With 2012 coming to a close, the ICA releases a roadmap for the cooperative decade. Read more »

Lessons for Building a Co-operative Movement

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Below is my first post here at Shareable. I originally posted it at my main blogging site, Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter. I plan on posting a series of interviews here as well as other things. Read more »

Rural Coops Show the Way to Urban Job Growth

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The US government has used cooperative development to boost the rural economy for over 75 years. Now, with a new bill, that success can be applied to struggling urban areas. Read more »

Student Coops: the Cutting Edge of the New Economy

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While pundits debated failing macro-economic strategies in the election media frenzy, students at NASCO Institute shared proven community-driven economic solutions -- from coops to alternative currencies. Read more »
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