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A Serbian social enterprise links skilled craftspeople with modern designers in a bid to reboot the beleaguered rural economy. Could a crowdfunding campaign scale operations up?

Pay inequality, zero-hour contracts and a sense of disempowerment are driving people to form co-operatives, finds a new report. The sector is strengthening despite an uncertain economy

An increasing number of digital and creative companies are setting up as co-operatives, boosting the UK co-ops scene

Recent racial unrest in the US has bloomed into a different kind of protest. ‘Black banking’ is emerging as a tool of empowerment for communities in America, and further afield

Affordable housing designed by and for local people bucks the trend

Social enterprises – organisations that use business means to provide social and environmental benefit – are set to receive a boost from the corporate world

From breweries to newspapers, the co-operative movement is thriving today. Rin Hamburgh takes the temperature of the UK's co-operative economy

What does the new economy look like? How can organisations the world over become generative rather than extractive? And what does that mean for society? Greta Rossi travelled to transformational [...]

Leaders from diverse fields have united to call to make the UK economy work for people and the environment

Could society move beyond the rhetoric of 'strivers' and 'skivers' and be rebuilt around understanding and compassion? The effects would be revolutionary, argues Elena Blackmore

For the first time in decades, a grassroots organisation in Spain has the potential to unseat the country’s major political parties. Could this herald the beginning of a Europe-wide political [...]

The new scheme aims to boost the country's economy in the long term

The UK government spends £37bn on the arms industry every year. What if that was invested in green energy instead, asks Andrew Smith

Our economy is shooting itself in the foot, author and activist Naomi Klein warned an audience in Westminster this month, and a radical change in the way we approach the climate conversation is [...]

Ben Dyson talks about the progress made by Positive Money in sparking the debate about monetary reform over the past four years

Two health and business professionals have joined growing calls for a reduced working week in order to improve employee wellbeing and business efficiency

Abundance is the natural state of the world and we can improve the lot of humanity while also allowing the biosphere to thrive, says Matt Mellen

Developments in finance, energy and technology are shifting us from centralised, growth-at-all-costs economics, towards a more democratic, collaborative, interactive and ecological model, based [...]

How can we move towards a society that feels more human, natural and less dependent on money, considers Lucy Purdy, as she spends a week in Devon exploring ‘wild economics’

Despite the Co-op Bank’s troubles, the ethical finance sector is thriving, writes Charlotte Webster