The Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) and Momentum, a Calgary, Alberta based community economic development (CED) organization, have issued a new brief, Community Economic Development Opportunities in Alberta. BALTA […]
Transition to Co-operative Commonwealth: Pathways to a New Political Economy September 11 – 23, 2016 Synergia is an international network that unites academics, social activists, practitioners and policy makers in […]
Transform Montréal Conference – March 19-20, 2016 John Restakis on “Toward an economics of the common good” The Transform Montréal Conference was framed as a social and solidarity entrepreneurship celebration […]
BALTA’s Mike Lewis Speaks at CommonBound Conference The 2016 version of the CommonBound Conference, sponsored by the New Economy Coalition in the United States, wrapped up today in Buffalo, New […]
Athabasca University Press (AU Press) has just released the book, Scaling Up: The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability. The book draws extensively from research conducted by BALTA members over […]
Initial Research from our New Affordable Shelter Research Cluster BALTA has been researching and promoting community land trusts (CLTs) as a vehicle for affordable housing for several years. Through the […]
The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy, originally published in English by New Society Publishers in 2012, has recently been published in French and Korean versions. Copies can […]
Synergia is an international network that evolved out of BALTA to promote work on converging the co-operative, commons, peer-to-peer and sustainability transition movements and agendas. European based Synergia members met […]
The Edge Funders Alliance has produced a short (5 min.) film, “Better, Not More”, made by Mark Decena. The film includes short vignettes from various participants in a 2014 meeting […]
UK-based BALTA collaborator, Pat Conaty, recently completed a very successful speaking tour in Seoul, Korea, focusing particularly on co-operative place-making and the benefits of community land trusts (CLTs) for affordable […]
