Inspired by the New Economy movement (see: NewEconomy.net), we are organizing our community to cultivate local resilience and implement strategies that invest in regional self-sufficiency while disinvesting from corporate extraction and exploitation.
Our Mission:
Cooperation Eugene collaborates with people, organizations, and networks to cultivate a thriving, local regenerative economy.
We Envision:
A world of local regenerative economies in which people cooperatively produce abundance, value people and the rest of the natural world over profit, and actively steward their bioregions.
People empowered to participate actively and creatively in rising to the challenges we face by mobilizing our individual and collective resources.
Communities empowered to say “no” to extraction and exploitation. All members, especially those who have been marginalized by the systems we are transcending, are actively engaged and uplifted in governance of the commons.
Black Lives
Cooperation Eugene stands in solidarity with our community members of color as the tragedy of the murder of another black man at the hands of white police officers once again dredges up the accumulated pain of hundreds of years of mistreatment and inequality. We need meaningful change and healing, and we need it now!
The work of Cooperation Eugene is totally in alignment with the principles of Just Transitions. Take some time to read what they have to say. https://climatejusticealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/CJA_JustTransition_Principles_final_hi-rez.pdf Our upcoming event on May 26 (which will be recorded and posted here afterwards) is all about a method and technology to transition centralized extractive power infrastructure to community-based …
Solidarity Economy 101: “A solidarity economy is far more than cooperatives. Time banking, community land trusts, credit unions, barter networks, all of these sorts of things are ways that communities have been meeting needs, and can do it aside and beyond capitalism.” Read this excellent feature in Mic about the history and current state of …
Cooperation Eugene is partnering with the PROUT Institute to organize a collaborative challenge to develop new integrative design for housing and climate mitigation. Check out our project page for more details https://cooperationeugene.org/home-for-all/. We are offering webinars to learn about component parts of this challenge. On that page you will see links to past webinars. This …
We issue this call to action to inspire our community to adopt a new approach to addressing its housing problem. Lane County faces the acute challenge of providing adequate low-income housing and the protracted challenge of meeting greenhouse gas reduction goals. The nature of these challenges requires novel solutions involving major shifts in thinking and approach; they cannot be adequately solved within current institutional frameworks or social and political practices.
We propose that multi-dwelling housing projects require an integrative development approach that engages multiple factors in their design and implementation. This is currently doable with the local expertise, talent, ingenuity, and resources already on hand in our community. However, the necessary convergence of the right people, ideas, and practices, and subsequent movement forward, requires a shift in thinking, an innovative vision of the possible, and a creative plan of implementation.
Design Challenge
We invite key stakeholders and experts to come together to launch a housing project, the shape and scope of which emerges from grappling with a design challenge articulated through the following three goals and associated parameters:
Moving Forward
Our strategy for developing this integrative design is to build small teams of people interested in educating themselves and the community about the component parts as they pertain to Homes for All, for example policy, land use, finance/business plan, alternative energy integration, materials and building, community and justice.
These teams are producing webinars for the community about what is involved in each component. Then the design team identifies the relationships between the parts in integrative exercises.
Read and vote for our application to EWEB Green power grant
We’ve applied for the @ewebutility Greenpower Grant, and we need your help! The grant awardees are decided by Greenpower customers. Greenpower is a voluntary subscription that funds clean energy in our community. If you are a Greenpower subscriber with EWEB, watch your email for a voting survey on June 18 to 23 and vote for us! If you’re not signed up for Greenpower, there’s still time to join and vote on the grant. Sign up at eweb.org/greenpower”
