I’ve had a chance to talk about my book on public radio, which has been a lot of fun. If you want to tune into my conversation with the Larry Meiller Show on Wisconsin Public Radio, from October 4, 2021, that’s about a 30 minute listen. For a medium (less than 15 minutes) or shortish…
#1 New Release (September 2, 2021)
While I’m not a big promoter of Amazon, it was exciting to see my book listed as #1 New Release for a variety of categories today: corporate governance, sustainable business development, and project management. Happy to see the cooperative model is generating interest at this critical time in the climate crisis. Thanks for everyone’s support!…
Everything Co-op Interview
With a radio/podcast show name like “Everything Co-op,” it was a perfect fit for an interview about my book. My episode is linked here (June 2021). Working with the host for the show, Vernon Oakes, was a lot of fun, and they have a great archive of stories. So if you’re not already one of…
My book on Prosperity in the Fossil-Free Economy … is out soon (September 2021)
For more info and to pre-order, visit Yale University Press.
Page Proofs for THE Book Arrived!
It seemed this day would never be here when I started the sustainable cooperatives project. After many months of work and using the isolation of this global pandemic to turn inward and keep writing… I now have the page proofs of the book for the final stage of edits. Yale University Press tells me they…
Capitalizing the Cooperative Movement: Caixa Popular
Imagine a stakeholder bank owned by its employees and other cooperatives; that has a values-based purpose; implements strong environmental sustainability; did not engage in the speculative lending practices that resulted in the global financial crisis; did not foreclose on any homeowners during the crisis; has total transparency in salaries; and whose CEO is paid only…
BioTrèmol: Building a Local, Small-Scale Organic Food System
This week I was talking with a new organic berry farmer about how their sales to grocery stores were going. He said, “Not so great. We’re at an odd size where we have too many berries to just rely on direct sales to customers who come to the farm, and too few for the grocery stores to…
Feeding 3 Million Consumer Members in the Spanish Mediterranean, Powered by Renewables: Consum Cooperativa
Created at the dawn of building a new democracy and labor movement in Spain in 1975, Consum has grown over forty years to serve 3 million consumer members and 14,364 workers (95% are worker-owners). They have 707 grocery stores throughout the Spanish Mediterranean. Consum’s birth coincided with the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco’s, death. At that time, workers…
Powering Cooperative Members With 100% Renewables: Som Energia
Founded in 2010 as a non-profit cooperative, Som Energia is Spain’s first nationwide renewable energy consumer cooperative dedicated to 100% renewables. What started with a group of 150 professors, students, and friends, has grown in less than a decade to serve 55,766 members, producing 13.56 GWh/yr of renewable electricity. That rapid deployment of renewables is a result of…
Organic Vineyards and Winery: Farmer-Owned Since 1932
Adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea, Alicante’s climate is excellent for vineyards. While Spain produces the most organic wine in the world, it is still a small part of the overall Spanish wine market. I was on a quest to find a cooperative that produced organic wine. Talking with local wine merchants in Alicante’s Mercado Central, I found wines from Bodega…
