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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Director Sofia Papachristou and cinematographer Kostas Papanastasatos travelled for one month through several European countries, in order to interview and document social-cooperative enterprises. The film displays the impressive range of […]
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) recently launched a series on social and solidarity economy. This series is the result of the UNRISD international conference on the […]
Ed Mayo finds the book that joins the dots. The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy by Michael Lewis & Patrick Conaty. New Society Publishers, 2012. ISBN: 9780865717077 […]
Our recently held webinar with Elizabeth Sheehan from Climate Smart was an engaging presentation about carbon emissions reduction in the business community.
Webinar Held on Monday, March 18th Featured Presenter: Robin Murray is an economist whose work has recently focused on co-operative development and social innovation. He was author of ‘Co-operation in the […]
