GeWoSued is a housing-cooperative owning about 2.600 appartments and family homes at twelve locations in the North, East and South of Berlin. The cooperative was founded in 1919. GeWoSued offers housing at moderate costs for all ages and lifestyles. GeWoSued strives to keep the service charges low by encouraging the dwellers to contact the employees […]
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Founded in 1942, the NRECA is an organization representing the interests of 900 rural electric cooperatives and public power districts around the United States. Headquartered in Virginia, the association’s members include consumer-owned local distribution systems and generation and transmission cooperatives who supply wholesale power, as well as cooperatives involved in supply, manufacturing and data processing. […]
Agricultural Company Cornesti: Collective Farming after Communism
Until the Iron Curtain was lifted in 1989, Romanian farms were government owned and run as collectives. While cooperatives were based on group work and shared benefits, membership was forced. After the collapse of the communist regime, farmland was returned to its original owners and soon collectives began to reappear; this time, collectives were characterized […]
Stanford Cooperative Houses
Cooperative living has been an integral part of Stanford University’s residential system for the last 41 years. It’s been an integral part of my life for the last four years, and this is what coops mean to me. Cooperative living, to me, means sharing ownership and responsibility not just for a building, its supplies, and […]
Kuapa Kokoo
Kuapa Kokoo simply means Good Cocoa Farming. The Kuapa Kokoo farmers cooperative was established when the internal marketing of cocoa in Ghana was liberalised in 1993. Two years later it attained Fairtrade recognition. In 1998 it formed the Day Chocolate Company which later changed its name to Divine Chocolate. Kuapa Kokoo members own the majority […]
Oikocredit – Cocovico – women empowerment and entrepreneurship
Created in 1993, Cocovico (Coopérative de Commercialisation de Produits Vivriers de Angre) is a cooperative of female vendors based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Since 2004 Cocovico has been an Oikocredit project partner. Cocovico used Oikocredit financing to build a new market in Abidjan in a time when the country was in civil war. At this […]
GreenStar Co-op
Your source for natural, organic, fair trade and local foods in Ithaca, New York. Community Owned, Everyone Welcome.
The Argan Tree
The Argan tree, Argania spinosa, is the sole species in the genus Argania. Vast tracts of Argan forest have been wiped out across arid north-west Africa one half of the Argan forests – in the last century. This gnarled trees thick peel-covered fruit hides within its bitter tasting pith, a gem, or perhaps two. […]
My Mountain Co-Op
Three ski lifts. 8,000 acres of backcountry. The highest snowfall in North America. A skier’s dream. A dream which grew into a co-operative. In the far north-west of Canada, 350 kilometres south of the Alaskan border, Shames Mountain ski area nestles at the head of the forested Shames River valley. For a region which has […]
Keta Sandlanders
“I am an African. I know what Africans believe in. Africans believe in what they see.” Divine Kodzo Baba has seen the deterioration of the town in which he was born. He has witnessed the shrinking of his beloved Keta. The coastal port was once Ghanas second largest city. Coastal erosion has washed away houses […]