Kiva milestone!
Monday, April 14th, 2008Persons, not institutions, link lenders and borrowers.
Archive for the 'Cooperation' Category
What common distributed work would work for UUs?
Saturday, April 12th, 2008Two givens.
My Day Job includes lots of interaction with software developers.
My hobby — effectively — is learning more about my three computers, each with its own variant of Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux, like other free and open source software projects, have a open yet ordered and participatory [...]
If you have some money, give
Monday, March 31st, 2008To make the most impact, I give to only a few charitable organizations, and one is the Friends of the World Food Program. The World Food Program has a good history of food relief, with an excellent record of efficiency and the capacity to make a real difference. The Friends is the US support affiliate.
With […]
All this talk of IDs . . . .
Friday, February 8th, 2008Several people have resumed discussion of General Assembly: of this, I have nothing to add.
But it leads me to a bit of good news. I am back to the weight shown on my driver’s license, long a fiction. More than 20 pounds down from where I was when I started to loose weight at […]
Looking at worker cooperatives
Thursday, January 10th, 2008Last night, the BBC America World News ran a clip about worker cooperatives in Argentina, evidently recycled from a domestic BBC report from last October. More than perhaps anywhere else — Spain might be the exception — Argentina’s worker-owned cooperatives pick up and recover what scraps the owners of failed businesses left behind. And […]
When 456% APR isn’t enough
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007Satire can be cruel, but not as cruel a debt-sprial costing the most vulnerable hundreds or thousands of dollars of available fees and interest.
Predatory Lending Association Superb.
(If you need a loan, try a credit union.)
A good coffee for small offices, churches
Saturday, October 20th, 2007I recommend fair-trade coffee, and that medium-sized and large churches purchase it from Equal Exchange, a workers cooperative. Unitarian Universalists may buy it through their Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Coffee Project. Other religious “gateways” include the Brethren, Catholics, Friends (AFSC), Lutherans, Mennonites, Presbyterians, the United Church of Christ and United Methodists. Good coffee, ethically sourced.
But […]
BarCamp and credit unions meet
Thursday, September 6th, 2007How good does it get? The BarCamp/Unconference mode of learning and teaching and the economic cooperative benefits of credit unions and alternative banking together. That’s the upshot of BarCampBankSeattle that met over the summer.
Some interesting features for those thinking of organizing an unconference:
Judging by the list of those who said they [...]
Two cheers for credit union
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007The New York Times reports today (”Nonprofit Payday Loans? Yes, to Mixed Reviews” by John Leland) about a program between Goodwill and a credit union (a financial cooperative, thus the categorization) in Appleton, Wisconsin to help people jump out of a payday loan debt death spiral. The program — which does move those least able […]
Organizing a(n) (un)conference, BarCamp style
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007I’ve been writing about BarCamp, Unconferences and Open Space Technology — but how do you do it?
[Later. I realized I haven’t written about BarCamp or Unconferences, but intended to introduce them before publishing this. “A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment”– using […]
