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July 21, 2025

We ask Amsterdam city council more support for the community economy

Politics must actively support local and cooperative economy, commons, and communities.

July 15, 2025

An alternative vision towards our digital ecosystem

We need a digital ecosystem that is not just safer and fairer, but fundamentally different from the extractive models that dominate today. But what can we do to get there?

July 1, 2025

Amsterdam is building a new economy, emerging from communities

Celebrating the first Day of the Community Economy: a festival of collective energy, local initiatives, and a shared vision for a just and caring economy.

June 30, 2025

Commoning for Climate Justice

Across Europe, communities are already making a more just and caring economy a reality.

​​Cities Beyond Growth: A Six-Week Online Course

Cities Beyond Growth is a six-week online course that invites you to reimagine urban life through the lens of post-growth thinking, an approach that recognises that more GDP doesn’t always mean better lives.

June 26, 2025

Cooperatives build a better world

For the international year of cooperatives, we highlight coperatives and their crucial contribution towards the community economy.

May 6, 2025

Towards Digital Sovereignty and a Resilient Digital Ecosystem

We need a digital ecosystem that is not just safer and fairer, but fundamentally different from the extractive models that dominate today. But what can we do to get there?

May 1, 2025

Signposts for a community economy

Together with MeentCoop and AmsterDOEN, we summarise lessons from the pilot incubator program for the community economy. With this mini-guide, we aim to further the collaboration between citizen initiatives and the municipality.

April 29, 2025

From Commodity to Commons: Collaborative Housing

Housing is an inseparable part of everyone’s life. Access to housing then lets us create a stable home. Without it, it is difficult to build resilient infrastructures of care, which are essential to human wellbeing and prosperity.

April 23, 2025

We Launch the Explainer Series Community Economy

What if the economy was in the hands of the community?

March 27, 2025

Shared owned enterprises: Democratic, sociocratic en holacratic governance

Re-learning how to collaborate

March 20, 2025

Citizens launch the Green Cooperative in Amsterdam

Read on the festive launch of the Green Cooperative.

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