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some notes and links related to intentional communities
A co-op, or cooperative, is an autonomous association of people who join
together to meet their common goals through a jointly owned and
democratically controlled organization. There are co-ops in almost every
sector of the economy: housing co-ops, worker co-ops, producer co-ops,
healthcare co-ops, financial co-ops, and many more.
— NASCO
Cooperatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility,
democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity. In the tradition of their
founders, cooperative members believe in the ethical values of honesty,
openness, social responsibility and caring for others.
- from [ica.coop]
Cooperative Principles
1. Voluntary and Open Membership
2. Democratic Member Control
3. Member Economic Participation
4. Autonomy and Independence
5. Education, Training, and Information
6. Cooperation among Cooperatives
7. Concern for Community
i spent the majority of college living in a [student housing cooperatative]
in santa barbara. i really enjoyed a lot of parts of living in
[non-market],
non-profit housing, with shared ownership, and responsibility of all the good
(and bad) things that happened there. while i don't think it was easy, or for
everyone, i feel that it helped me grow a lot and i cherish the experience. the
sb coops allowed member owners to serve on the board of directors, which was
great to learn more about the operation of a
[501c3] business. while i was acting as
treasurer on the board of directors, we were able to expand our coops to
include a new house, named "merton" - which houses just under 20 people or so.
the [mondragon
corporation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mondragon_corporation) is one of the
world's larges cooperative federation, in the basque region of spain. it
operates across finance, industry, retail and knowledge sectors and employs
~75,000 people. it is a worker owned cooperative,, which [noam
chomsky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9sv6peqguk) called an example of
"partial" and "pieces" of [anarchism] enterprise, when
viewed as a type of worker owned syndicalist approach to organizing. coming out
of the spanish civil war, a catholic priest named josé maría arizmendiarrieta
help found the federation of cooperatives (see video
[here].
[project kamp] is a group that are creating an
intentional community in portugal. i really like the organization and its very
neat to their focus on pragmatic environmentalism with an eye towards locality,
longevity, but also considering global processes. [project kamp]
is one component of a larger network called [one army].
one of the particularly cool aspects of their approach is that they film and
share their progress on youtube and also have "research modules" for sharing
what they've learned in the process towards a bunch of things. this ends up
creating a guide of sorts to follow in their footsteps. you can see more about
the general idea/plan [here].
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