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  • Co-op matters in March

    Frontier Co-op I write about co-ops, but I don’t belong to one. Or so I thought. I just received a membership patronage check of $15.83 from the Frontier Co-op. My wife and I are members and order supplies from their enormous catalog. The items are discounted as long as you order in bulk with a… Read more

  • A Co-op Meetup in Cambridge, MA

    On February 8th, The Agaric co-operative held a Meetup event in Cambridge, MA, at their workspace Industry Lab. Despite snowfall that was part of an unprecedented series of storms, people attended to discuss the status and value of co-ops. I brought along a video camera and captured some testimonies from attendees. Micky Metts and Ben… Read more

  • Co-op Events in January

    2015 has started with two interesting co-operative events in the Boston area. One was hosted by the Agaric co-op, and the other hosted by the Local 888 of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU 888) in support of the Cero co-op. Read more

  • Tiddler’s Success

    What’s a tiddler? I had to look it up. It’s a very small fish or, in the case of an article I recently read in The Economist, it’s the “little guy”. The little guy is thriving in, of all places, a segment of the investment banking industry. The Economist reported in the December 6-12 issue… Read more

  • Janelle Orsi and the Sharing Economy

    If you’re trying to determine what the new economy means, author and attorney Janelle Orsi can do a lot to help. In her book Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy, Orsi gives compelling insight into the practical application of law to solve, or attempt to solve, the challenges of a new way to function economically.… Read more

  • John Abrams and Business Cooperation

    In 2008, Chelsea Green Press published Companies We Keep by John Abrams. It is the second addition of The Company We Keep first published in 2005. Companies We Keep isn’t a new book, but I found it well worth reading in 2014 not only for its insight into the development and philosophy of the author’s worker-owned business,… Read more

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