Repair Cafes
Thirty groups have started Repair Cafes across the Netherlands, where neighbours pool their skills and labour for a few hours a month to mend clothing and revivify old coffee makers,…
Author: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) is a collaborative effort to help create more resilient communities and neighbourhoods in British Columbia, Canada. It is currently delivered and hosted by the non-profit Building Resilient Neighbourhoods Society.
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Vancouver Tool Library
The Vancouver Tool Library is a cooperative tool lending library located at 3448 Commercial Street in Vancouver, BC. We carry a wide variety of tools for home repair, gardening, and…
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How to Start a Solar Co-op
The Mt. Pleasant Solar Cooperative in Washington, DC helps shine a light on how to bring affordable and convenient solar power to your community. Click here to watch the video….
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Strengthening Neighbourhood Resilience: Opportunities for Communities and Local Governments
Strengthening Neighbourhood Resilience: Opportunities for Communities and Local Governments This report highlights some of the research and approaches that have been explored and the lessons that have been emerging during…
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Report: The Cooperative City
The Cooperative City: Social and economic tools for sustainability by John Restakis of the BC Co-operative Association, February 2011. A discussion of policies for promoting cooperative companies of different kinds…
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New Economics Foundation
nef is the UK’s leading think tank promoting social, economic and environmental justice. Our purpose is to bring about a Great Transition – to transform the economy so that it…
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Book: Getting to Maybe
Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed by Francis Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, Michael Quinn Patton. This book introduces the importance of complexity theory and systems thinking for social innovation…
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Book: The Upside of Down
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon Sets out a theory of the growth, crisis, and renewal of societies, what can we learn…
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Book: The Resilience Imperative
The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty Climate change and escalating energy prices compel us to reinvent our economic life on a…
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Commonomics
A series of articles from YES! Magazine on how we can build local economies that are strong enough to include everyone. Ongoing coverage from 2013 Local Economies Reporting Fellow, Laura…
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Story: Candy Chang – Arts-based Engagement
Artist and planner Candy Chang captured the dreams, aspirations and stories of neighbours in this New Orleans neighbourhood using wall writing. Click here to read a story about Candy Chang’s…
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Story: South Hill Neighbourhood, Vancouver
The South Hill Neighbourhood of Vancouver developed a website that shows how digital technology can be used to help connect people in the place they call home. Click here to…