Wednesday, June 8, 2011

All Together Now: How Co-operatives Are Born Again as Communities Help Themselves

Many thanks to Alan Greig of the Mercury Centre for this wonderful article on the role of community cooperatives in Australia. Besides being a great overview, it gives details of three communities who have used the model to return a hardware service to the town (Casterton, Victoria) , establish Australia’s first community owned renewable energy farm (Hepburn, Victoria) and create a community health service (West Belconnen, ACT).  This article is from the Bank of IDEAS Newsletter

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