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What the commons looks like,
counted.
Start where the commons
is already thriving.
Food co-ops
Grocers, farms, roasters and distributors owned by their workers or members.
Housing
Limited-equity co-ops, Mietshäuser Syndikat, community land trusts.
Worker-owned
Firms where the people doing the work own and govern the enterprise.
Energy
Community solar, wind and grid co-ops building distributed energy.
New entries in the
directory.
Stocksy United
An artist-owned platform co-op for stock photography and video with transparent royalty rates.
Resonate
A cooperative music streaming platform that pays artists fairly and gives listeners a share of ownership.
Mondragon Corporation
A federation of worker cooperatives based in the Basque region of Spain — one of the largest cooperative networks in the world.
Equal Exchange
A worker-owned cooperative distributing fair-trade coffee, tea and chocolate with a 30+ year track record.
Mietshäuser Syndikat
A German network of solidarity housing projects removing buildings from the speculative market permanently.
The Drivers Cooperative
A driver-owned rideshare co-op providing an ethical alternative to extractive gig platforms.
Stories from the commons.
Mini case files, not marketing. Every claim sourced. The co-ops behind the directory, in their own context.
The federation that outlasted Franco
Seventy years ago, a priest and five workers opened a paraffin stove factory in the Basque hills. The model they built now employs 70,000 people.
Taking housing off the market — permanently
In Freiburg, a network of 200 houses has developed a legal structure that makes re-sale to speculators mathematically impossible.
The platform co-op that actually scaled
Stocksy United proved artist-ownership and eight-figure revenue can coexist. A decade in, the model still sets the ceiling for platform cooperativism.
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