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About the housing crisis, the commons, cooperative living, Barcelona, Sweden… phew!
While the cooperative housing model has a long tradition in some regions of the world, such as Quebec and Canada, Northern Europe or Uruguay in Latin America; in others, it is a rather emergent phenomenon.
Skipper Otto, an example of community supported fishing in Vancouver
You may be subscribed to receive, every week, a basket of fruits and vegetables provided directly by a farm in your area. Or, in any case, you have surely heard of this model, also called Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), which originated in Japan in the 1960s and has been in place for about thirty years in North America – see for example the network of family farmers in Quebec and New Brunswick.
‘Beyond Growth 2023’: a strong symbol
‘Croissant’, other than the delicious pastry, is a good adjective to describe our current economic system. The warnings about the disastrous effects of exponential economic growth are not new: they have been out there for fifty years already, following the well-known 1972 report 'The limits to growth' (Meadows et al.).
Revaluation of dormant stocks as an answer to ‘fast fashion’
It is not unknown that the textile industry is one of the most polluting. Fast fashion, constantly providing new styles at very low prices, requires huge volumes of production with equally giant environmental impacts.
