New Economy

New Models Emerge To Facilitate Community Land Ownership

October 14, 2026 Steve Dubb, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Community Investment, Development, Land Ownership, New Economy

Brent Fosberg is a Lansing, Michigan-based developer. Development is the family business. But Fosberg is not pleased at the sprawling development that has dominated Lansing. “I think there’s a real correlation [between] our level of trust in our institutions and our [urban] design and how we built [our communities],” Fosberg says. Fosberg believes communities would look different if residents financed development. But, he says, “the way the financing has been set up, it’s hard for people to be able to invest in [their own] community.” Fosberg hopes to change that with a project called the Lansing Growth Fund.

Building Community Work Exchange Networks

October 13, 2026 Chuck Collins and Tristan Roberts, Resilience. Organize! Community organizing, Mutual Aid, New Economy, Vermont

Last December, a gust of wind signaled the arrival of a blizzard, followed by wet, heavy snow that accumulated in Chuck’s garden storage and forced his 20-by-8-foot barn door off its hinges. Between Chuck, perched atop a stepladder, and his wife Mary, who held the door in place, it was clear how the barn door might be returned to its roller—all they needed was Roz from the Wild Robot, Marvel’s Iron Man, or the draft horses, oxen, and rope-and-pulley expertise of homesteaders of an earlier era. Having none of those, Chuck saw only the cost of a repair he could not handle himself, and he wasn’t sure who to call for such an unusual job.

Let’s Build Main Street Capital Authorities

September 25, 2026 Michael Shuman, The Main Street Journal. Create! Local Investment, Main Street, New Economy, Wall Street

Imagine your city has an online site where you can easily log in and then direct your investment dollars to your favorite issues. Here are this week’s hypothetical options: (1) Main Street Retailers, (2) Affordable Housing, (3) Renewable Energy, (4) Craft Manufacturing, (5) Brownfield Rehabilitation, (6) Land Acquisition for Local Parks, and (7) School Improvements. Once you select a topic button, you’re given several further options: (a) lend money at 5%, (b) put in equity investment at 7%, (c) co-sign a mortgage note for first-time home buyers, or (d) donate.

What Do We Mean By Solidarity Economy?

August 30, 2026 Solidarity Principles. Create! Cooperation, New Economy, Solidarity Economy, Sustainability

Solidarity economy (SE) is an organizing framework for those who wish to create a systemic commitment to and practice of interdependence and collective liberation in the economic activities that meet our material needs. Solidarity economy rests on our shared values: cooperation, democracy, social and racial justice, environmental sustainability, and mutualism. Interdependence and respect are central. Solidarity economies are transformative — they redistribute power and resources to those who have been most harmed by white supremacy, settler colonialism, patriarchy, ableism, and capitalism — and meet an immediate material need for a community.

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.

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