Grizedlae Arts (GA) is based in the English Lake District National Park and has over the last decade gained a reputation for pioneering new approaches to art production and exhibition. Unlike traditional institutions and, indeed, its own history in the British land art movement, GA does not have studios or exhibition space, but rather offers artists the opportunity to carry out projects using social media, cultural and economic of the territory and beyond. Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Source : https://www.grizedale.org/places/ Text Source : Trans-Local-Act

Following numerous mobilizations since 2003 for the preservation of building 7, located in Pointe-Saint-Charles, in Montreal, Collectif 7 à Nous was born. Collectif 7 à Nous is a non-profit organization born in 2009 which brings together citizens, cultural, community, libertarian and social economy organizations. Its aim is to develop the Building 7 project on former CN land, south of La Pointe. It practices a democratic, horizontal and inclusive mode of management and practices principles of shared governance and non-violent communication. The organization is done in circles of evolving and not fixed responsibilities. Building 7 is now converted into a place of sharing and exchange. Today, the activities of building 7 are multiple; There you will find: Le Detour solidarity grocery store, managed by volunteers and offering inexpensive fresh products, a craft brewery, a Press Start cooperative which is a self-managed place of gathering, entertainment and debate, an arcade and a training school. art. Collaborative workshops, called ‘the B7 workshops’ are also organized around ceramics, DIY, bicycle repair, etc. The Building 7 project carries values of social justice, autonomy, respect, democracy and aims to be an engine of social, political, cultural, economic and environmental transformation, in the environment which gave birth to them and well beyond. Source : 100° Source : Bâtiment 7, 2019 Source : memento Text Source : https://www.batiment7.org/autogestion/

The activities of the Multimedia Institute [mi2] are vast: informal education, training in technology and digital media, development of free software, archiving and publishing of digital and printed media, management cultural and political work... The Multimedia Institute began in 1999 as a non-governmental spin-off of the Croatian Open Institute. In the public eye, the work of mi2 is primarily visible through the activities of its public members. space and cultural center - MaMa. Since its opening, MaMa has been a meeting place, a reference point for different communities ranging from political activists to media artists, electronic music creators, theorists, hackers and free software developers, gay and lesbian support groups. Guided by the ideal of sharing, it immediately offered young creators, independent cultural actors and citizen initiatives free access to facilities and its Web infrastructure. MaMa's facilities were important to the emergence of the local independent and alternative scene, but its activities were also very important. In recent years, the Multimedia Institute and MaMa have become significantly involved in the fight against gentrification in Zagreb and Croatia. Source : https://mi2.hr/ Source du texte : Trans-Local-Act

Rotor is a a cooperative that organises the reuse of construction materials. We dismantle, process and trade salvaged building components. Rotor DC is a cooperative company which is entirely owned by its employees. We are based in Brussels, and we attempt to be as generous with this city as it is with us. We seek to collaborate with contractors, non-profits and other companies, and to become a central part of a regional ecosystem for large scale reuse of building materials. While at the start in 2014, we almost exclusively sold materials dismantled by our own workers, our shop now also trades materials from several other suppliers such as demolition contractors and real estate companies. By trading in salvaged materials, we help reduce the quantity of demolition waste, while offering quality building materials that have a negligible environmental impact. Many of our materials are cheaper than new for the same quality. Some materials are equally expensive as new, but come with a great story, a deep patina or simply a clear conscience. And then, from time to time, we offer for sale pieces that were conceived by renowned designers, or created by skilled craftsmen, or made using technologies now out of reach. These pieces are priced a bit higher, but we hope the economies made with our more generic materials help bring them in reach of the many. We have a strict policy with regards to exceptional architecture, and never get involved in demolition projects before they obtain the proper permits. We fully support maintenance and refurbishment strategies for existing buildings. We require documentation of ownership on all of the materials that transit through our shop. While reusing building materials is as old as construction itself, building materials and techniques have significantly evolved since. We develop deconstruction techniques, logistical systems and remanufacturing installations for contemporary building materials, with a focus on finishing materials. Our specialisations include – repair and transformation of lighting equipment, – a state of the art method for removing mortar from ceramic tiles – the reprocessing of high quality ‘urban’ wood – cleaning and preparing for reuse of furniture and building hardware, sanitary equipment – planning and organising of salvage operations in large and complicated buildings Rotor Deconstruction is an autonomous side-project that emanates from Rotor, a Brussels-based non-profit firm engaged in promoting and facilitating the reuse of building components as a strategy on the path towards a more resource-efficient materials economy. Since 2012, Rotor has been documenting existing dealers of secondhand building materials in Belgium and in neighbouring countries. The results are published on opalis.eu. Through this study, we realised that despite the high level of professionalisation of the sector, many dealers are focusing on rustic materials destined for the domestic rural market. Few were geared towards selling what comes out of large building compounds of the service sector, which then and now makes up the bulk of demolition debris in metropolitan areas like the Brussels Region. Rotor Deconstruction grew out of the realisation that certain dots needed urgent connection. photo: Rotor DC, WTC towers, Brussels photo: Rotor DC, North Station, Brussels photo: Rotor DC, warehouse

Transition Town Totnes is a community-led organization that aims to strengthen the local economy, reduce our environmental impact and build resilience as we adapt to climate change. It is an organization run by a group of local volunteers, made up of a small team, who come together to work on projects. Anyone can get involved. It is a community organization with nearly 40 local projects and 9 thematic groups working to strengthen the social economy and prepare for a future outside of oil. TTT helps create thriving, healthy and caring local communities, where lifestyles take into account the needs of future generations as well as the present. Taking into account rising fuel prices, economic uncertainty and climate change which bring many challenges. However, TTT focuses on these elements by attempting to increase personal and community well-being, promote the local economy and find lifestyles in line with the values of our Earth. The Transition Network is here to support the ever-growing networks of transition initiatives across the UK and the world and help them to self-organize around the transition model, to create initiatives that work for resilience. Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Source : Transitiontowntotnes.org Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et Transitiontowntotnes.org

Siebenlinden is an intentional community/village of people committed to self-sufficiency and a low-emission lifestyle. Different organizational and legal relationships are organized in various cooperatives. The Sieben Linden ecovillage is a social and ecological establishment in Altmark in the region of Saxony-Anhalt (formerly East Germany). The concept of this Ecovillage was created around 1989. After 4 years, in 1993, a group of people came together to purchase a "project center" in order to more effectively search for land to settle on - and promote the concept with politicians and others. In 1997, they found the land on which they built (and continue to build) the Sieben Linden ecovillage. Here, adults and children live together on 100 hectares of land and build the large eco-village with a small ecological footprint. Ecology, social issues, culture and economics go hand in hand. Sustainable gardens, energy concepts and straw bale houses are important for the eco-village, but the real heart of Sieben Linden is friendliness. "At Sieben Linden, our goal is to provide a model for a future way of life in which work, leisure, economy, ecology, urban and rural culture can find a balance. We seek the answers to the problems pressing issues of our time; seeking human-centered solutions in a place of creativity and learning. This model aims to show how humans can live more responsibly with nature; than human communities have no need to exploit or destroy nature but can make a positive contribution to the quality and diversity of the environment. The many decisions that accompany the creation of a new community are organized at different levels, i.e. the scale of the village, or on the scale of a house." Source : Siebenlinden.org Source : Siebenlinden.org Source : Siebenlinden.org Source : Siebenlinden.org Source : Siebenlinden.org Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et Sieben Linden.org

Traficantes de sueños is an activist publishing project. It aims to be a meeting and debate point for different social movements. As well as an alternative to distribution to facilitate access to books, leaflets and magazines. Traficantes de Sueños is a project that aims to provide content and lead debates useful for collective action. It is also a social economy project, that is to say an entity without money, involved in the local market. Traficantes de Sueños started in 1995 with the aim of generating a space where materials for reflection meet; the tool used for this is the book, understood as a means of individual and collective transformation. They also organized the associative library, distribution; the space for self-training and production of Nociones Comunes. The space is not only the headquarters of the library, but it is a collective space, open to the city, which hosts a multitude of presentations, projects, meetings, exhibitions and debates. The TdS associative library specializes in the critical analysis of social movements and stories from other worlds. The TdS editorial publishes background and sharing texts with the Creative Commons license which allows free copying and downloading. The TdS distribution offers books from other parts of the world and many texts from small alternative publishers. Source : Wikimedia Common Source : SrPerro.com Source : Traficantes.net Source : Traficantes.net Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et Traficantes.net

Dartington Trust is home to two faculties, Schumacher College and Dartington Arts School, which – through undergraduate and postgraduate programs and short courses – offer a radically transdisciplinary approach to education. More broadly, this site is a center for learning, arts, ecology and social justice, with the student campus being a key element in the life of the estate. Schumacher College aims to help participants experience what founder Leonard Elmhirst called “the abundant life.” The College's community life takes place in and around a medieval house near Totnes, England. During the day, lectures, discussions and small groups take place. In the afternoons it is possible to take excursions to the coast or to Dartmoor, walks, study visits, tutorials or specialist conferences. There are meditation times, a group meeting and a session in which participants help prepare food and maintain the surrounding environment. This aspect of the courses is an essential element of College life: integrating intellectual discussions into daily activities related to building maintenance promotes a level of understanding in which personal values and course objectives are combined. Source : L'arbre aux étoiles Source : Scholarship Positions Source : Schumacher College Text Source : Trans-Local-Act et https://campus.dartington.org/about/

Meet.coop is a multi-stakeholder cooperative with two types of members: Our operational members occupy specific functions within three sociocratic circles, in order to provide reliable video conferencing services to our user members. It is a cooperative video conference service platform (alternative to Zoom) whose governance is based on the commons and which supports an infrastructure of international dimension and a form of hybrid or integral cooperativism: it integrates producers and users. Remix is co-founder of the cooperative. Source : https://www.meet.coop/ Source : https://www.meet.coop/ Source : https://www.meet.coop/ Text Source : https://www.meet.coop/

Mobicoop is a cooperative society of collective interest (SCIC) with more than 10 years of experience in the mobility professions. Our cooperative status guarantees open and shared governance with our 1,100 members and according to the principle of 1 member = 1 vote at the General Assembly. Any organization, private or public, can take part and become a player in the project. Our Mobicoop Platform carpooling solution was developed in open source software, making Mobicoop the first company to offer shared mobility solutions in open source software! Free software is an argument for your territory because it is: * guarantee of good use of public money. * guarantor of the digital independence of the territories. * guarantor of code quality and proper use of user data. Every year, we invest in Research & Development to improve our services and offer new solutions adapted to the needs of each region: carpooling, daily hitchhiking, solidarity transport, fleet management, local activities. The Covoiturage-Libre association was born in 2011 following the change in the economic model of the Covoiturage.fr site. Since that day, users have been obliged to pay a commission on journeys. This change did not embody the values of carpooling for some users. Several people came together to create a “free” carpooling association: to continue carpooling with a view to solidarity, ecology and above all without any commission on journeys. In 2018, it was voted to transform the association into a cooperative to go further. For Covivo, the adventure began in 2009. For 10 years, Covivo has developed carpooling sites and mobile applications for businesses and communities. While offering innovative services, Covivo was the first carpooling company to develop real-time carpooling. It was in 2018 that Covoiturage-Libre approached Covivo to offer to participate in the creation of its major shared mobility cooperative project: Mobicoop! In 2021, Mobicoop is joining forces with Rezo Pouce, another shared mobility cooperative company born in 2010 in Moissac and specializing in particular in daily hitchhiking. It also carries the values of united and sustainable mobility. Our visions converged, our two structures then decided to join forces to form a large SCIC while retaining the name Mobicoop. Source : page Facebook Mobicoop Source : page Facebook Mobicoop Text Source : https://www.mobicoop.fr/