In Turin, a historic showcase of the ACI model of #cooperativism in #talia, the number and weight of #cooperatives has been declining for 10 years now. Cooperativism today is no longer useful for saving an unviable small-scale property model, nor by creating consumer groups and placing a team of managers on top. The cooperativism of our time is all about #Labour, incorporation of #technology and community.

https://www.ansa.it/piemonte/notizie/2024/10/01/in-calo-da-10-anni-il-numero-delle-cooperative-torinesi_ce6cdb9d-09a6-4684-aad9-fb86143392d3.html

#Kenya, the #WorkerCooperative as a form of #DevelopmentCooperation.

https://www.elperiodicodearagon.com/espacio3/2024/10/02/construyen-futuro-108755133.html

#UK. Most of the #softplastic collected for #recycling... is burned.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/01/soft-plastic-collected-for-recycling-burned-tesco-sainsburys-campaigners

#China. #Rural #repopulation for the wrong reasons. Working #youth are returning to the countryside because of low #wages in the cities.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/02/young-chinese-are-retiring-in-the-countryside-as-chinas-unemployment-woes-grate.html

#Zeitgeist. How the #media creates the illusion of greater a partisan divide than the actually existing one.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2402428121

#Zeitgeist. 23andMe, the DNA testing company that sold "discovering your origins" dripping with #racialism, is in decline. The cause: #cybersecurity failures and, possibly, the loss of steam from an unproductive essentialism.

https://www.wired.com/story/is-23andme-dead-at-home-genetic-testing-anne-wojcicki/

https://www.wired.com/story/23andme-breach-sec-update/

#USA. A part of #feminism is shocked to discover that young people reject #identitarianism - and therefore do not want to call themselves "feminists" - but consider equality between men and women to be a fundamental issue. Apparently, until now, this position, that is, one aligned with #universalism, was considered by identitarian feminism to be a form of misogyny.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/02/opinion/gen-z-misogyny.html

#NATO. Rutte goes from championing #austerity (and the degradation of public services, especially in the southern countries of the #EU) to championing increased public spending... on #militarism. Although it may seem contradictory, in reality it is is not.

https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-and-security/news/frugal-no-more-new-nato-chief-mark-rutte-urges-members-increase-defence-spending/

#USA. Baltimore and the multiplier effect of BRED, an association that provides capital and knowledge to #WorkerCooperative projects that have a solid social base and a sustainable model.

https://www.wmar2news.com/local/the-wine-source-in-hampden-is-turning-into-a-worker-cooperative

https://www.baltimoreroundtable.org/

#France. Ethiquable, a #WorkerCooperative dedicated to the incubation of other #cooperatives, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. They are already opening a new “chocolaterie”, which is how they call their #coworking and collective entrepreneurship support centers.

https://www.ladepeche.fr/2024/10/03/la-chocolaterie-ethiquable-a-fete-les-10-ans-dalter-incub-a-fleurance-12236790.php

#Germany. Hamburg, an example of how, when a #HousingCooperative is not born from a #WorkCooperative, it ends up behaving the same as any other developer... because just like any developer, the direction is set by a group of managers with their own interests. And so now in Hamburg, in the new homes next to the zoo, rents reach €21 per square meter, representing the most expensive rents in the city.

https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/nach-jahrelanger-planung-und-protesten-richtfest-fuer-106-neue-wohnungen/

Study by the #University of Milan on the model of Lombard #cooperatives (which are not, for the most part, #workercooperatives and which are the basis of the ICA model).

«There are strong inequalities in access to social benefits [flexible hours, etc.]... In particular, those who earn higher incomes [managers] tend to exploit social benefits more, excluding lower-paid workers».

https://www.secondowelfare.it/primo-welfare/welfare-aziendale-le-prospettive-di-sviluppo-nel-mondo-cooperativo/

#Italy. A #CommunityCooperative generating agribusiness against #depopulation «founded in 2019 in Fanano to grow nettle seedlings, make clothes with nettle fiber, transform waste into infusions and supplements for livestock feed».

https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/modena/cronaca/abiti-in-ortica-cooperativa-premiata-2cc8d0d6

#France. #YouthCooperative. A model of ephemeral #WorkerCooperative that allows groups of young people (18 to 25) to discover cooperative work in its different dimensions.

https://www.ouest-france.fr/bretagne/rennes-35000/a-rennes-la-cooperative-jeunes-majeurs-pour-creer-une-entreprise-ephemere-7d2193b4-7b75-11ef-977d-be93a24a1048

#France. The margins generated by companies to date have paid for #labour and everything else for the entire year. From today until December 31, the entire margin will go to remunerate #capital. It is a statistical fiction, of course, but it allows us to understand the basic structure of the economy and the difference between an stock company and a #workercooperative.

By the way, this year it is two days earlier than last year.

https://www.marianne.net/economie/jour-du-depassement-capitaliste-a-partir-de-ce-4-octobre-vous-travaillez-pour-remunerer-les-actionnaires

New strategies using solid-state #technology to develop electric cooling devices with the minimal number of moving parts and harmful gasses

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/09/30/magnetocaloric-heat-pump-for-residential-applications/

New study shows that total emissions from #gas imported by the #EU from the #USA are greater than those from #coal.

https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.1934

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/04/exported-liquefied-natural-gas-coal-study

#Zeitgeist. Neo-Nazi and #FarRight #accelerationism flies #Telegram and takes refuge in SimpleXChat, an app funded by Jack Dorsey (creator of Twitter) that supposedly ensures that police forces cannot access conversations.

https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/neo-nazi-accelerationists-seek-new-digital-refuge-amid-looming-telegram-crackdown/

https://simplex.chat/

#Zeitgeist. 923 exhibitors from 52 countries meet at the board game fair in Essen, #Germany, the most important in the world. The market has doubled in the last decade, but this year we have not found any novelties equivalent to the overwhelming arrival of the "escape rooms" of a few years ago.

https://spiel-essen.de/

The Frankfurter Allgeime Zeitung interviews the leaders of the St Pauli FC transition in #CommunityCooperative. A measure of how far the cooperativisation of this historic club is shedding new light on #cooperativism in #Germany.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/fussball/bundesliga/fc-st-pauli-gruendet-fussball-genossenschaft-verantwortliche-im-interview-110024376.html