Aroundtheworld.coop is a project dreamt and developed by Andrea and Sara, a married couple who decided to put together their passions and skills and embark on a thrilling experience of a lifetime: travelling around the world for one year, documenting different sorts of cooperatives on all the continents. We believe that cooperatives and other forms […]
Oasi – Porto Tolle (Rovigo) – Italy: accessible nature-based tourism in the Po delta
Promote and render accessible to everyone the Po Delta – a relatively unknown, but unique area, with beautiful nature and a fascinating history. This is the objective of Oasi, a social cooperative founded in July 2012 in Porto Tolle (Rovigo) by cooperators with decades of experience in the nature-based tourism sector and by people who […]
OASI
Oasi is a social cooperative (type B – work integration) founded in 2012 by cooperators with a nature tourism background and by a group of people with physical and motor disabilities. The mission is to make the Po Delta accessable to all and raise awareness of its unique beauty and facsinating history.
SPIA COOP
A Cooperative of Professional Women Journalists in Valencia, Spain, who promote co-operatives, publish up to 80 digital magazines, and organize package tours to Valencia, Spain, for classes in Mediterranean cookery, golf, painting, sailing, windsurf, kayak, wine-tasting, cultural tours, health spa sessions, Spanish and English lessons and glazed pottery.
Promised Land
The women were willing to volunteer time, to work for their children and their future, Woulimata Thiaw reminisces about the early days of the Popenguine Women’s Group for the Protection of Nature. She does not hold back about how men did not believe in the cooperatives potential. Thiaw, the current Cooperative President, turns the discussion […]
COPRANAT
The cooperative adopts a multi-pronged approach to improving the environment and raising living standards in the villages. Forestry, including the preservation of mangroves and evasion of erosion, is the primary activity. The group also focusses on tourism, gardening and development of small industries for the women in the area.
Welcome to the first hotel in the British Commonwealth to be co-operatively owned
The Renmark Hotel, the oldest co-operatively owned hotel in the British Commonwealth, stands beside the Murray River in South Australias Riverland region. It first opened its doors in 1897 and has continued to serve the districts renowned local produce from the same site ever since. Although the hotels collective ownership has remained unchanged since the […]
Renmark Hotel
The handsome and historic Renmark Hotel, in South Australias Murray River region, is the oldest co-operatively owned hotel in the British Commonwealth. Since 1897 it has provided hospitality and fine local produce to the local farming community that owns it. Its manager, Michael Schuetze, says that when the small town of Renmark needed its first […]
Weaving a future
When Pablo Neruda visited the ancient Peruvian city of Machu Picchu, the ruins inspired an entire book of poetry. In The Heights of Machu Picchu Neruda called to the indigenous people who once lived there: Look at me from deep in the earth,/tiller of fields, weaver, quiet shepherd /Show me your blood and your furrow /And give […]