Cleveland Ecovillage

Mixed fortunes as solidarity economy takes root in Greece

Time banks, farmer-to-buyer sales groups and alternative currencies springing up but expansion has not been steady or easy A [...]

US SEN Website Re-boot

We have had a terrible time with our old website and are in the midst of changing over to [...]

Berkeley Votes to Boost Co-op Economy in the Face of Gentrification

In 1971, the owners of The Cheese Board turned their Berkeley, California, mom-and-pop shop into a co-op, where they [...]

The Oppression of Debt & the Promise of a Financial Commons

UNRISD – SSE raising international profile

Social and solidarity economy (SSE) is raising its profile internationally! Last September, the International Leading Group on SSE featured [...]

Building Alternative Institutions in Greece

Counterpunch, March 11, 2016 by Alexander Kolokotronis Since the beginning of the Greek financial crisis, both the Right and the [...]

Building Black Cooperatives

Complementary currencies + value chains to build solidarity economies

Fri, Mar 11 at 1:00 PM, New York By: NYC Department of Small Business Services Events Can we use complementary/alternative currencies [...]

De-colonizing Our Solidarity Economy

Jan. 22, 2015 – organized by SEN. Hosted by Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Elandria Williams with Shamako Noble – [...]

Solidarity Economy Part 3: Expanding Citizenship in Brazilian Favelas

Work produced by Mulheres Guerreiras de Babilonia This is the third and final article in our three-part series on solidarity economy [...]