September 2018 - Page 5 of 18

An Italian friend told me that there is some bad blood from some towards the co-ops in Emilia Romagna, and that the sentiment in Trentino area is more sanguine.

Don’t know about that. But this is a nice little video about Trentino and the pros and cons of the coop movement there:

http://stories.coop/stories/the-cooperative-movement-in-trentino/

CW: cheesy production values

23rd September 2018

More than two hundred and twenty seven thousand individuals, in a population of approximately five hundred thousand inhabitants in Trentino, are members of cooperatives. This means that two families in every three are involved in the cooperative movement. Not only that! If the number of existing cooperatives, a few more than six hundred, is compared […]

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23rd September 2018

The cooperative movement in Trentino | Stories

What men got wrong about the economy.

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23rd September 2018

Mom’s Invisible Hand | The New Republic

A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog. – tsileo/microblog.pub

23rd September 2018

"If the cost of gas from a West Siberian giant goes up, so too does the cost of electricity from a lone wind turbine on an independent West Yorkshire farm. It’s how the energy market works, or doesn’t work, depending on your point of view."

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23rd September 2018

I’m impressed by latest newsletter from Good Energy (UK energy provider). A lot of talk about decentralisation of energy.

"We’re enslaved to a centralised system that has a bias towards big. Big countries. Big governments. Big industries."

"we continue to lead the dramatic shift towards decentralised energy. Our role will evolve, moving from power supply to help customers […] sell – or give – surplus energy to others."

Good stuff.

23rd September 2018