Ethical Consumer magazine has named the Co-operative and Marks & Spencer as the UK’s greenest supermarkets, based on a comparison of companies’ policies on ethical and environmental issues such as animal welfare, workers’ rights and sustainable sourcing.
In the run up to Christmas, Ethical Consumer urges shoppers to use retailers which have a track record of [...]
Co-operators may find this article in the New Internationalist magazine, which discusses a collaborative alliance between Mondragón Co-operative in Spain and America’s largest industrial union, United Steelworkers, of interest.
The world’s largest industrial worker co-operative will work with the trade union to create ‘union co-ops’ – Mondragón’s model of multi-stakeholder co-operative ownership and control combined [...]
The co-operative movement will carry on developing and shaping education in the next year, predicted Mervyn Wilson, during an interview on Salford City Radio. Mr Wilson, Chief Executive and Principal of the Co-operative College, is confident that the number of co-operative schools will be doubled by the end of 2011, a figure which [...]
PhD researcher Sally Hartley discusses a youth co-operative based in a school in Lesotho.
Co-operative College Principal and Chief Executive Mervyn Wilson will be interviewed by Councillor Jim King on Salford City Radio this afternoon (15 December) at 5pm. To hear Mervyn in conversation on the programme King’s Questions, tune in to 94.4fm or listen live at www.salfordcityradio.org.
Mervyn has also been asked to choose the soundtrack for the show. [...]
At the start of December, Co-operatives for Development and Oxfam brought together organisations that are working with co-operative models in the developing world.
Treeinspired is a new initiative from Salford based design agency Carbon Creative to empower businesses, schools, groups and individuals in Salford to come together and benefit their local community through environmental projects.
Supported by Salford Rangers and Salford City Council’s Environmental Education Team, treeinspired aims to improve green spaces in the city through projects such as [...]
PhD student Sally Hartley reports on a youth co-operative she met during a recent research trip to Lesotho.
The Co-operative College invited Leonard Msemakweli, General Secretary of the Uganda Co-operative Alliance, to share his experiences with co-operators in the UK.
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