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WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT CO-OP ECONOMICS? THEY’RE ALL ABOUT THE TRUTH!
www.ica.coop Come to Imagine 2012 and the International Co-op Summit this October. Help change the world. www.imagine2012.coop and www.2012intlsummit.coop. “Sometimes an idea we consider true is dead wrong…If it was true that lowering taxes on the wealthy created jobs, we’d be drowning in jobs!” Here’s the 5-minute Ted Talk from last March by venture capitalist Nick Hanauer that they apparently tried to censor. It’s getting wide visibility, and you can see why! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI
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Which video rocks most? Voting ends May 31! http://mycooprocks.coop/
200-plus Young Cooperators
Stephanie Guico (right) and Kalista Popp (left) at Orientation for the Master of Management, Co-operatives and Credit Unions program (www.mmccu.coop), a co-sponsor of Imagine 2012 (www.imagine2012.coop). 200-plus YOUNG COOPERATORS COMING! An exciting group of speakers will address the 2012 International Co-operative Summit’s Future Co-operative Leaders Program in Quebec City this October. (www.2012intlsummit.coop) It is a chance for young co-op and credit union leaders “to connect with other young co-operators from around the world and build a network that will serve them all their lives,” says Stéphanie Guico, program manager. To register contact: stephanie.guico@sommetinter2012.coop. To date, 230 managers, officers and … Continue reading
Neva Goodwin
If you’re trying to formalize a body of knowledge that could be called “Cooperative Economics”, a good person to have at the table is Neva Goodwin, who’s working to synthesize and institutionalize “contextual economics”, which recognizes social and ecological health as significant, long-term business goals. She will be one of the 15 leading edge Presenters at Imagine 2012. For more information and to register: www.imagine2012.coop. The Global Development & Environment Institute Goodwin co-directs at Tufts University in Massachusetts (US) grew out of the E.F. Schumacher Society, which partners with the London-based New Economics Foundation (www.neweconomics.org) founded in 1986 by leaders of … Continue reading
Managing Without Growth
Watch a 15-minute Council of Canadians video of “Managing Without Growth”. The presenter, Peter Victor, will be one of the 15 outstanding scholars and practitioners discussing the concept of “Cooperative Economics” at Imagine 2012. For more information and to register: www.imagine2012.coop. PETER VICTOR Peter Victor is Professor in Environmental Studies at York University and a member of the Advisory Council of the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science, Canada’s oldest science organization. He is author of Managing Without Growth: Smaller by Design, Not Disaster. In 2011, he was selected as one of two winners of the prestigious … Continue reading
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