From the title: Cooperative is an international movement to ensure a stable, equitable and sustainable economic system.Cooperative means a group of people who voluntarily join together to address common problems and promote cooperation.More: http://bit.ly/2jXxYyD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_(economic_model) Cooperatives are an increasingly popular model for addressing the issues of inequality and environmental degradation.The […]
BY MARK ROBINSON – APRIL 05, 2019 9:08:19A pair of Democratic gubernatorial candidates from Boone, West Virginia, have captured nearly all of the votes in the first co-op election since a local co-operative became the largest worker cooperative in the country.A win for Coopers Riverview Cooperative Alliance, an organization that […]
The first American bank to take over the management of a cooperative bank was the cooperative bank of the Greenfield Cooperative Bank, the first bank to offer a cooperative banking product.Greenfield was founded in 1870 and it was the first cooperative bank in the US.In 1920, Greenfield merged with the […]
By LINDSEY PEDERSEN”The biggest barrier to electric co-ops and other distributed energy producers like them is government regulation,” says Michael Pappas, co-founder of Green Revolution Electric Cooperative, an electric utility in Massachusetts.“And the biggest obstacle is the cost of doing business in a world of rising prices and declining profit […]
