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Events

Upcoming Events:

  • July 2021: Blue Tongue Cooperative – The Blue Tongue Coop is a Co-operative development agency, specialising in transforming businesses to worker owned cooperatives.

Past Events:

  • June 2021: CoCo Cobargo Group – CoCo Cobargo (CoHousing, CoFarming and Cooperative farms) is pioneering new ways for communities to work together, helping to solve the problems of farm succession, and lack of housing since the 2019/20 fires, amongst other things.
  • May 2021: Food2Soil – Food2Soil is hydrolysing “waste” organic matter to make a brilliant, living liquid fertiliser, and setting up a new business to do it.
  • April 2021: Prosocial with Paul Atkins – Prosocial World is finding new ways for groups of all sorts to relate to each other,  beginning with the latest in evolutionary science, Complex adaptive systems, and contextual behavioural science, then examining them through the lens of Elinor Ostrom’s principles of commoning.
  • March 2021: Food Next Door Coop – Based in Mildura, Food Next Door is creating a local supply of healthy, nutrition dense food while helping out the towns refugee population through accessing the communities under used land and water resources.
  • February 2021: CoCanberra’s media work – A look at Radio Behind the Lines, the Align in the Sound podcast, and the upcoming NENA Radio.
  • January 2021: Earthworker Coop update – Katherine Cunningham – Earthworker Coop is in the thick of a just transition from fossil energy to renewables, and creating a true solidarity economy.
  • December 2020 – A well earned break for all!
  • November 2020:  Meeting our friends – SEE-Change, CoCanberra and the New Economy Network of Australia. 
  • October 2020:  NENA’s Civil Society Strategy for a New Economy – Climate Co-ops and the Co-operative Commonwealth
  • September 2020: Thinking together – Working with Government – local Government – what can local government do to help civil society build itself into a strong, resilient culture, good for people and planet?
  • August 2020: What the hell is a climate co-op? – Introducing and developing the concept of Climate Co-operatives. 
  • July 2020: Workshop: Asset Based Community Development – the “5 H’s” method – exploring a workshop tool to find the strengths and passions of your community, document them, and match people up for future learning, all rolled into one!
  • June 2020: Mutual credit systems: Time banks, LETS, and commercial barter systems – A talk with Matthew Slater, a key developer of mutual credit systems and software.
  • May 2020: NENA’s Civil Society Strategy for a New Economy – Strategy development – Mental health: creating a wholistic view 
  • April 2020: NENA’s Civil Society Strategy for a New Economy – Brainstorm – gathering input from the Canberra Regional Hub 
  • March 2020: Going Local- the benefits, challenges and strategies – Panel and Q and A
  • Feb 2020: Presentation of the intentions of, and main components of CoCanberra’s proposed Community Owned Farming Enterprise Co-op
  • Jan 2020: Community Development – Workshop on two Community Development tools, Community Asset Mapping and Puzzle Problem Speed Dating.
  • Dec 2019: Party Time!! – rather small this year due to extreme bushfire smoke.
  • Nov 2019: Community Development – Housing Co-ops and related organisations – part 1
  • Oct 2019: Reframing CoCanberra – the new CoCanberra mission and vision
  • Sep 2019: Community Development – Regenerative food systems in the Canberra region – part 1 
  • Aug 2019: Case study – Co-operative health care – The National Health Co-op and The Co-operative Life
  • Jul 2019: Case study – Harmony cleaning co-op – worker owned – union co-op – refugee enterprise
  • Jun 2019: Case study – Trove Co-op – Artist owned shopfront
  • Jun  2019: New Economy Network of Australia event: What should our economy look like in 2030?
  • May 2019: Case study – Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy
  • Apr 2019: Case study – The Food Co-op Shop
  • Mar 2019: Intro to East Gippsland – before the NENA East Gippsland symposium
  • Feb 2019: Meet the current CoCanberra Partners – ORICoop, Earthworker, SEE-Change, Pingala Co-op
  • Jan 2019: Case study – Cote Jardins – community supported agriculture in France

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