Community resources news
Stay updated with the latest global news on Community resources, assets and spaces owned or managed by communities themselves in their own interests and for their own wellbeing.
2025
Platform co-op launched to encourage collective saving, thenews.coop (Sep 08, 2025) - A California Network of Black Churches Is Embracing Solar Energy, EV Charging, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 07, 2025)
- Rooting Together, Grassroots Economics and Aude Peronne, grassecon.substack.com (Aug 29, 2025) — Life, Culture, and Commitment in Our Village
- Where the Music Lives, Rediscovering the Center of Our Commons and Letting It Overflow, Will Ruddick, willruddick.substack.com (Aug 10, 2025)
- Europe's citizen-led “Solar Revolution” is pioneering. But there are warning signs of corporate capture [DeSmog], Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2025)
- ‘Own less, have more’: French app rents out underused household items, theguardian.com (Jun 19, 2025)
- Growing Community Wealth with Sarafu.Network: My Story, grassecon.substack.com (May 25, 2025)
- Indonesian government plans network of village co-ops to tackle poverty, thenews.coop (Apr 19, 2025) — Ministers plan up to 80,000 rural co-ops offering financial services, medical facilities, and farm logistics, storage and distribution
2024
- From Asphalt to Inspiration: The Student-Led Transformation of America’s Schoolyards, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 04, 2024)
- The idea of a "public diner" has much historical precedent - and leads the way to a better food culture for the future, Daily Alternative (Aug 29, 2024)
- Hurricane blackouts: New Orleans' 'lighthouse' solution to keep the power on through floods and high winds, bbc.co.uk (Aug 07, 2024)
- “What if you could create a physical place in every community where people can gather and turn to one another in the event of a crisis?” To the Lifehouse!, Daily Alternative (Jul 10, 2024)
- Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden
- Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?, theguardian.com (May 01, 2024) — More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive
- The climate cafe helping eco-anxious Africans find hope amid the heat, positive.news (Mar 11, 2024)
- Launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING, Alternative Editorial (Mar 01, 2024)
- A laughter cafe, a healing cafe, a soup cafe, a mending cafe... Anything but yet another coffee cafe, pleads Bridget McKenzie, Daily Alternative (Feb 21, 2024)
2022-2023
- ‘We needed to get off the grid’: New Orleans’ community-driven response to blackouts, theguardian.com (Nov 16, 2023)
- Alter Natives: Deana Wildgoose from the Coalville CAN, on the creativity and joy released when communities take over buildings, The Daily Alternative (Jan 11, 2023)
- "A floating, multifunctional space for a community": Ecuador's Santay Observatory tests out residence on water, The Daily Alternative (Nov 04, 2022)
- ‘It’s a beautiful thing’: how one Paris district rediscovered conviviality, The Guardian (Jul 14, 2022) — It started with an organised ‘bonjour’. Now the ‘republic of good neighbours’ say they want to reclaim the streets
- Costa Rica’s Los Higuerones coop is a perfect example of what a CAN looks like - combining economy, relationship and conviviality, The Daily Alternative (Mar 21, 2022)
- What do we mean by public luxury? Glorious spaces that people can use and enjoy freely, cutting consumption and increasing connection, The Alternative UK (Jan 28, 2022)
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