for - Apis & Heritage - champions of worker-owned cooperative movement

for - stats - 2022 - US worker-owned cooperative potential - about 140,000 firms - employing around 33 million workers - would have been suitable candidates for ESOP employee buyouts, - nearly 1.1 million firms - employing over 25 million workers - [are] suitable candidates for cooperative employee buyouts. - Collectively, these firms accounted for roughly $25 trillion in total revenues. - Aspen Institute

for - worker-owned cooperative - opportunities

for - worker-owned cooperative - attitude shift - from paycheck - to investment in future

for - stats - comparison - savings - worker-owned cooperative employee vs non - Rutgers - average median-earnings household - 17K - worker-owned cooperative - 165K

for - cooperative - Africa - Mondragon - AST

for - learned new term - open cooperative - this is an important subset of cooperative Cooperatives alive are insufficient for construction commons business systems because they can still be capitalistic cooperatives! - question - is Mondragon a capitalist or open cooperative?

for - inequality - oligarchy - effects on consumerist habits - buying the cheapest - suggestion - migrate from corporation to cooperation model - private company to cooperative - new meme - corporation to cooperation

for - question - Donna and Marie - Compare to Cooperatives

question - @Donna and @Marie - Compare to Cooperative - Can either or both of you compare FSC with Cooperatives?

for - quote / critique - The price we pay for this salutary change is, no doubt, great - Andrew Carnegie

quote / critique - The price we pay for this salutary change is, no doubt, great - Andrew Carnegie - Carnegie goes on to write that the great freedoms offered by industrial mass production has an unavoidable price to be paid - Successful manufacturing and production cooperatives, B-Corporations, worker-owned companies, etc have disproved that it is an either-or situation. - Consider the case of the Spanish manufacturing giant, Mondragon, a federation of worker cooperatives employing 70,000 people located in Spain - where this price is NOT paid - Carnegie's essay reflects a perspective based on the time when he was alive - Were Carnegie alive today to witness the natural conclusion of his trend of progress in the Anthropocene, he would witness - extreme pollution levels of industrial mass production threatening to destabilize human civilization itself - astronomical wealth inequality - And these two are linked: - wealth inequality - a handful of elites have the same wealth as the bottom half of humanity - carbon inequality - that same handful pollutes as much as the bottom half of humanity

to - Mondragon cooperative - explore - https://hyp.is/GeIKao1rEe-9jA_97_KRBg/exploremondragon.com/en/ - Oxfam wealth and carbon inequality reports - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=oxfam

for - Mondragon cooperative - explore

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/17/methane-climate-crisis-amazon-peat-permafrost-vegan-heat-pumps

il manque le texte sur la place des parents à l'école de 2006 https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.education.gouv.fr%2Fbo%2F2006%2F31%2FMENE0602215C.htm&group=world

et la coopérative scolaire https://hyp.is/I9kbIH-ZEe6tG-8fxD6TLQ/www.education.gouv.fr/bo/2008/31/MENE0800615C.htm

for - BC Materials - https://bcmaterials.org/ - building cooperative - circular construction - earth - Belgium - building cooperative

• for: futures - neo-Venetian crypto-networks, Global Chinese Commons, GCC, cosmolocal, coordiNation, somewheres, everywheres, nowheres, Global System One, Global System Two, Global System Three, contributory accounting, fourth sector, protocol cooperative, mutual coordination economics

• summary

• learned something new
  • I learned a number of new ideas from reading Michel's article. He gives a brief meta-history of our political-socio-economic system, using Peter Pogany's framework of Global System One, Two and Three and within this argues for why a marriage of blockchain systems and cosmolocal production systems could create a "fourth sector" for the transition to Global System Three.
  • He cites evidence of existing trends already pointing in this direction, drawing from his research in P2P Foundation

• for: definition - protocol cooperative, question - protocol cooperative

• question: protocol cooperative

  • this seems to be the same definition as cosmolocal. Why not call it a cosmolocal cooperative?

pensser aussi à la coopérative scolaire https://hyp.is/I9kbIH-ZEe6tG-8fxD6TLQ/www.education.gouv.fr/bo/2008/31/MENE0800615C.htm

• for: energy cooperative, energy commons, energy grid - commons, holochain - energy commons, holochain -microgrid

• for: sister city, sweet spot, example, example - sweet spot, example - sister city
• comment
  • Example
    • TPF sister city program
    • optimum size and sweet spot for population cohorts for climate action
  • community cooperative

• for: quote, quote - Janet Salmons, quote - human cooperative brain networks, indyweb - support
• quote
  • Extreme bad behaviour from governments and private companies – GAFAs [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon] and the like in China – will create a social and civic innovation to compensate and/or to contribute to an innovation jump. I hope for development of human cooperative brain networks.
• author: Caroline Figueres
  • strategic consultant

• Title

  • Constitution Muizenberg Electricity Co-operative Limited

• Description

  • Muizenberg is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa

David Robert Lewis - founder of the Muizenberg Electricity Crisis Committee

Title: Proposed electricity co-op in Muizenberg as residents are 'fed up' with load shedding

Feature request (implement something that allows the following): 1. From any page containing a bookmarklet, invoke the user-stored bookmarklet בB 2. Click the bookmarklet on the page that you wish to be able to edit in the Bookmarklet Creator 3. From the window that opens up, navigate to a stored version of the Bookmarklet Creator 4. Invoke bookmarklet בB a second time from within the Bookmarklet Creator

Expected results:

The bookmarklet from step #2 is decoded and populates the Bookmarklet Creator's input.

To discriminate between invocation type II (from step #2) and invocation type IV (from step #4), the Bookmarklet Creator can use an appropriate class (e.g. https://w3id.example.org/bookmarklets/protocol/#code-input) or a meta-based pragma or link relation.

L’école et l’argent

Fostering self-directed learning through strategy is discussed by Bailey et al. (2019) in chapter 1 of “Self-Directed Learning for the 21st Century: Implications for Higher Education.” The authors review the changing role of the educator and the learner based on respective self-directed teaching strategies (problem-based learning, cooperative learning, process-oriented learning) and the learner’s propensity for self-directed learning. In addition to providing principles to promote self-directed learning, the Grow and Borich models for implementing said learning were briefly reviewed. 8/10

Trends in Web 2.0 technologies and various networking modalities are briefly reviewed. Furthermore, advantages and barriers in the use of said technologies are discussed. Implementation of social media as a learning tool can be advantageous, however, it must supplement learning, not replace a structured environment. The educator should still remain present in the learning environment. And, he/she should provide appropriate support and training, as well as model, respective online tools to ensure efficacy. 6/10

(Click on download full text to read.) Through a cooperative learning assignment, University students responded to a case study that implemented use of a Wiki. Results demonstrate that Wiki is an effective communication and collaboration tool (access, structure, versioning) for all individuals (introvert, extrovert). Recommendations and considerations for use in the learning environment were provided. 6/10

I think this is achievable, if we emphasize specialized libraries and cooperative models around resources (i.e. tool/tech libraries, food banks/co-ops)

Also about shared legal ownership. In the early stages probably more of a concern as members would have higher levels influence and company culture and processes aren't set. At scale though barriers to entry could be quite low, consider a Cooperative like REI has a very low barrier ($29 and signing a form.)