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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.
bytewerk
Hackerspace and maker space in Proviantstraße 12a, Germany. Open to members for collaborative making, electronics, and learning.
dezentrale
Hackerspace and maker space in Eisenbahnstr. 9, Germany. Open to members for collaborative making, electronics, and learning.
backspace
Hackerspace and maker space in Spiegelgraben 41, Germany. Open to members for collaborative making, electronics, and learning.
Base48
Hackerspace and maker space in Palackého třída 742/82, Czech Republic. Open to members for collaborative making, electronics, and learning.
c-base
Hackerspace and maker space in Rungestr. 20, Germany. Open to members for collaborative making, electronics, and learning.
fnordeingang
Hackerspace and maker space in Körnerstr. 72, Germany. Open to members for collaborative making, electronics, and learning.
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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