Page 13 of 48
Co-operatives UK
Co-operatives UK is the national trade body that campaigns for co-operation and works to promote, develop and unite co-operative enterprises.We have a unique role as a trade association for co-operatives. We aim to bring together all those with a passion and interest in co-operative action.We work to promote the co-operative alternative across many sectors of […]
Tags: Co-operatives UK
April 13, 2012
Ethics girls – sustainable fashion
“If you are the kind of woman who likes quality, longer lasting clothes and cares about where they have come from, you have come to the right place. Good for your wardrobe, great for your style and better value for money. Fashion is easy, style demands character,” Sam Roger, Ethics Girls. Ethics Girls is an […]
Tags: Ethics Girls, Monthly Feature
Tenants unite to become owners
On the 27th of January 2000, after only weeks of rash preparation and planning, 51 tenants from the more than 100 year old buildings that make up the Bremer Höhe in Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg, founded the Bremer Höhe Housing Cooperative. The concept behind this new cooperative was to prevent the sale of the historically protected […]
Tags: Bremer Höhe Housing Cooperative
April 18, 2012
Paying a real living wage
Lake Atitlán lies in the remote Guatemalan highlands. The extraordinary beauty of the lake and the three volcanoes which almost appear to stand guard is in contrast to the poverty in which many of its indigenous people live. Luisa Rosario Xicay Tacaxoy is head of the Artesanas Atitlán Cooperative in one of the indigenous villages […]
Tags: Artesanas Atitlán Cooperative
April 19, 2012
Micro-loans help recovery in Uganda
He who has never had a sorrow cannot speak words of comfort. Ugandan proverb Uganda may be referred to by travel agents as the Pearl of Africa but twenty one years of civil war has done little to enhance the living conditions of Ugandans. This is particularly obvious in the country’s north where 1.9 million […]
Tags: Kitgum SACCO
April 20, 2012
GRUPPO MEZZACORONA
Gruppo Mezzacorona arose from the merger of the Cantina Sociale (founded in 1904) and the Lega fra Viticoltori (founded in 1911) in 1970, the first merger of two cooperatives in Italy. The group now manages 2800 hectares of vineyard in the Italian region Trentino Alto Adige and an additional 1000 hectares in Sicily. Mezzacorona operates […]
Tags: Mezzacorona
April 23, 2012
Reconciling interests to make big business
The wine trellises fill the fertile valley floor of Rotaliana. It is often described as the most beautiful wine garden in Europe. Striking for its modernity in this region of Trentino, northern Italy, rich with Roman ruins and medieval buildings, is a steel-enmeshed three story office block with a low-lying grass roofed tasting building. This […]
Tags: Mezzacorona
Bringing home the bacon
Viewing an interactive map of the 125-year history of pig slaughtering in Denmark is reminiscent of watching wildfire spread in a raging wind. Pig slaughtering has become big business in Denmark. At the centre of this big business which began in the cooperative slaughterhouses of Horsens in Denmarks centre is the 125-year-old Danish Crown. Today […]
Tags: Danish Crown
Cooperative football network grows in Africa
Football, association football, or soccer? Call it what you like, it is the world’s most popular sport. And, unpublicised though it is, the worlds best football club in 2012, FC Barcelona, is a member or socio owned club run on cooperative principles. The cooperative model works at the top end of the sport. And a […]
Tags: Sandlanders Football
April 25, 2012
Villagers from distant settlements always happy to see cooperative shop-vans
During winter about 10 retirees live in the settlement of Nikolskoe (Bryansk Region). The streets are empty; there is no reason to come here, maybe only to get water. But twice a week the settlement comes to life on Tuesday and Friday when the mobile shop-van of the Zhilyatinski Consumer Society arrives. Early in […]
Page 13 of 48