New Economy

Building Workplace Democracy

July 31, 2026 USW, Portside. Create! Cooperatives, Democracy, New Economy, Unions, USW, Worker Rights

Mat Forth and his co-workers at the Keystone Development Center, a technical assistance provider for co-ops, had a goal – to create a democratically structured workplace where they collaborated equally in governance and decision-making and prioritized the common good. “We really wanted to practice what we preached and live our values,” Forth said. That pursuit ultimately led them to the USW, which helped them connect the union with their co-op development work. Cooperatives, or co-ops, are member-owned or worker-owned, and KDC works to support all types of co-ops.

A New Directory For Worker Co-ops Products

July 21, 2026 Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, Economic Democracy, New Economy, Worker Rights

People buy from Amazon because it's convenient. You search for what you need and it's there. That convenience makes Amazon visible. If you want to buy from worker-owned companies, you have to search individual websites, if you even know where to look. With all the headwinds facing the movement in our political and economic culture, it's no surprise that just getting a worker co-op up and running successfully is more than enough work. The cooperative economy is big, but it isn't convenient, so it isn't visible.

Arizona State University Launches Program On Co-op Education

June 28, 2026 Miles Hadfield, Coop News. Create! Arizona, Cooperatives, Economics, Higher Education, New Economy

The US National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) has partnered with Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business to launch the Foundations of Cooperative Enterprise Series(CES), a professional development programme for co-operative employees, entrepreneurs and emerging leaders. NCBA says the programme combines its co-operative expertise with the “academic excellence” and workforce education capabilities of Arizona State University, “creating a flexible learning experience that helps participants build practical knowledge while balancing the demands of their day-to-day responsibilities”.

Building Our Missing Care Infrastructure: New ‘Coops Of Coops’

June 26, 2026 Elias Crim, Solidarity Hall. Create! Cooperatives, home care, New Economy, Worker Rights

When big financial interests buy up a local software company, its own employees may feel the change but its home community will likely not even notice. Not so with businesses providing social care—child care, elder care, disabled care. When these small enterprises are bought up—often in multiples—by large holding companies, suddenly employees find themselves tied to an app and new work procedures. The result usually forces them to lower care quality standards which can impact their clients adversely. Home care is a sector of social care under tremendous pressures—in terms of job quality, low wages, low worker retention rates, and so on.

Real Existing Degrowth

June 25, 2026 Grace Wright-Arora, Red Pepper. Create! Capitalism, Degrowth, New Economy, Real Existing Degrowth (RED)

Real Existing Degrowth (RED) is an emerging scholarly idea. In many ways, it’s the 2020’s climate politics version of previous efforts to locate radical alternative economies in daily life, such as actually existing socialism and everyday communism. Rather than asking whether degrowth is possible in the future, RED asks to what extent elements of it already exist today. Its proponents stress that REDs are messy and incomplete – but that does not negate their existence as alternatives to capitalism. This article gives some concrete examples of where they manifest, from a self-sufficient community in rural Somerset, to a volunteer women-run community kitchen in Veracruz, Mexico, to convivial folk dances on a ‘left behind’ Greek island.

Why It’s Time To De-Commodify Food

June 22, 2026 Gunnar Rundgren, Resilience. Strategize! Capitalism, Decommodify, Food, New Economy

The myth that the consumer is in command is an essential part of capitalist ideology. It portrays the market as a democratic institution which people can control by “voting with their wallets”. And, if markets are democratic, the best is to let markets take care of as much as possible – so the story goes. Regardless of the fact that some people have many more dollars in their wallet than others, it gives a totally distorted view of how markets work. Steve Jobs said “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them” and proved it with the iPhone.

A Glimpse Into New York’s Cooperative Ecosystem

June 11, 2026 Ebony Gustave, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperatives, New Economy, New York (NY), Solidarity Economy

The Cooperative Leaders & Scholars Fellowship (CLS) was started by the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) in the 1990s. While the name and format has changed over the years, the intention has remained the same - to provide professional development and networking to emerging cooperative leaders and scholars. This year I was accepted to join a group of 22 people across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada to learn and build together over the course of 8 months. The cross-sectoral representation of student housing, rural electric, art, and more was just a glimpse into how expansive the cooperative ecosystem is.

How CLTs Are Powering Co-op Growth In Canada

June 5, 2026 Steve Dubb, Shelterforce. Create! Community Land Trust, Cooperatives, Housing, New Economy

Cooperative housing and community land trusts (CLT) are often posited as alternative paths for achieving community ownership of homes. But these two housing types can also be combined. Such a combination aims to marry the strong sense of community control that housing co-ops provide with the permanent affordability that CLT ownership helps ensure. In the United States, such a combination is rare but not unheard of. About 1.8 percent of CLT units are cooperative housing, according to a 2022 census conducted by Grounded Solutions Network, a national nonprofit that supports long-term affordable housing.

New Forms Of Rural Resurgence Through Commoning And Care

June 2, 2026 David Bollier. Create! Local Economy, New Economy, rural communities, The Commons

To outsiders, the Alps may conjure images of majestic mountain landscapes and carefree ski vacations. But to tens of thousands of people living in small Alpine towns, the challenges they face aren’t so different from those of many rural towns: How to meet basic needs and make the economy more resilient? How to deal with the worsening disruptions of climate change? How to assert greater regional control when distant, city-based politicians and investors push very different priorities? Paradoxically enough, remote rural locations are precisely where a lot of exciting ecosocial and economic innovations are arising.

Socialism Much More Than Just An Idea

February 4, 2026 Rossana Cambron, People's World. Strategize! Capitalism, Democracy, New Economy, Socialism

Socialism is both a political and economic theory and a historical stage in human development. As capitalism continues to squeeze profits from workers, more people become aware of who truly produces society’s wealth—and who benefits from their labor. This growing awareness raises a critical question: if capitalism creates unbearable conditions for the majority, what comes next? At its core, socialism advocates for social ownership and democratic control of the means of production. This means that major resources and industries—such as factories, land, energy, and transportation—are owned and managed collectively, rather than by private individuals or corporations.

From Breakdown To Breakthough: 2025 Union Co-op Symposium

January 25, 2026 Megan McGee, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Organize! Cooperatives, New Economy, Solidarity Economy, Symposium

The 7th Union Co-op Symposium, a gathering of worker-owners and union members from across the US, opened with guests being invited to talk to someone they don't know. Facilitators repeat this exercise two or three times in a row to begin the biennial event. “It is actually really hard to shut it down once you get it started, because so many people are so excited,” says Kristen Barker, a co-director of Co-op Cincy, which has hosted the Symposium since 2013. The 2025 Symposium took place from October 17-18, offering workshops, panels and conversations on how the cooperative and labor movements can work together to build a democratic economy.

How Africa’s Social Economy Is Shaping Its Development

January 22, 2026 IPP Media. Create! African Union, Capitalism, New Economy, Solidarity Economy

In February 2025, the African Union (AU) Heads of State adopted the continent’s first 10-Year Strategy on the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), a landmark commitment to institutionalize inclusive, community-embedded economic models across Africa. It signals a shift from piloting to policy and from recognition to implementation. In May the same year, a high-level roundtable took place in Nairobi on "Unlocking the Social and Solidarity Economy in Africa," bringing together leaders from African governments, the South Africa G20 Presidency, the private sector and civil society. It focused on the implementation of the AU 10-year strategy.

Ten Principles Of Next Economy Enterprises

November 2, 2025 Lift Economy. Create! Democracy, New Economy, Solidarity Economy, Transformation

The 10 Principles of Next Economy Enterprises serve as critical guideposts for designing organizations from a socially just and environmentally regenerative perspective. They are emergent and malleable, derived from work with hundreds of social enterprises. Here is an outline of the 10 principles: Meet Basic Needs This principle prioritizes providing human-centered essentials like nourishing food, clean water, shelter, and medicine. It directly challenges the Business as Usual (BAU) economy, which is geared toward fulfilling greed rather than human need, by providing essentials without destroying habitat and ecosystems. Enterprises adhering to this principle also look for ways to consider ecosystem repair as an impact outcome of their business functions.

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