Which community for cooperatives?

Exploring Cooperatives: Economic Democracy and Community Development in Pennsylvania

Community Democratization of Telecommunications Community Cooperatives in Argentina: The Case Of TELPIN

A telecommunications community cooperative (TCC) is an autonomous association of individuals, who join forces to respond to common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned enterprise, democratically governed and managed. In Argentina, TCCs were created by community-conscious members to fill in for the State when it was the State was unable to provide telephon...

Cooperatives for Demand Side Management

We propose a new scheme for efficient demand side management for the Smart Grid. Specifically, we envisage and promote the formation of cooperatives of medium-large consumers and equip them (via our proposed mechanisms) with the capability of regularly participating in the existing electricity markets by providing electricity demand reduction services to the Grid. Based on mechanism design prin...

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Religion and Which Sciences ? Science and Which Community ?

The author addresses ways in which participants in the religion-and-science dialogues avoid ethically setmtive issues involving the scientifically developed subject of nonhuman animals. Using the concept of ethical anthropocentrism, he maintains that the contemporary dialogue is mired in a traditional set of concepts and myopic discourse. The present approach entails serious risks of weakening ...