Co-operatives - Learn More

• The International Cooperative Alliance - An independent forum for knowledge and action on co-operatives
• Foodcoops.org - Really useful site about setting up food co-ops
  
• Rochdale Pioneers - Video clip about the pioneers of the co-operatives
• Cultivate.Coop - Online hub for pooling knowledge on cooperatives
• The Co-operative Group - 'the UK’s largest mutual business, owned by over seven million customer members'
• Co-operatives Europe - European site
• Ireland's Co-operative Sector - A Forfas report, 2007
• Plunkett Foundation - Supports co-operatives and social enterprises in rural communities worldwide.
• This Changes Everything, by Naomi Klein - “A book of such ambition and consequence that it is almost unreviewable … the most momentous and contentious environmental book since “Silent Spring.” with lots to say about co-ops as well.
•  John Restakis - consultant on international co-op development projects, researcher and teacher on co-operative economies and globalization

Other Co-operatives

• Blooming Foods - Food co-op, Indiana
• Unicorn - Food co-op, Manchester
• Park Slope - Food co-op, New York
• Mondragon - A corporation leader in the co-operative movement
• Portland Co-op, Maine, US
• Flatbrush Co-op, Food Co-op, New York
• Dublin Food Co-op, Dublin
• Cloughjordan Ecovillage - Co Tipperary, Ireland