Neighbourhood Care: The nursing model where better care costs less - Buurtzorg
Jos de Blok started Buurtzorg in 2006 with one team of nurses and no managers. It now runs around 900. He says doing the right thing costs the system less.
Corporation tax: How you know if a company is good or bad, regardless of its size
The Fair Tax Foundation created the world's first Fair Tax Mark. Paul Monaghan and Jaime Boswell on why celebrating the companies getting tax right may do more than naming the ones that don't.
Making locally-grown organic food more accessible
Debbie and Kellie of Unicorn Grocery on chalking their prices next to Tesco's, giving before profit, funding their growers, and never opening a second shop.
Giving Nature a Voice: From the Boardroom to the Courtroom
A company can go to court. A river can't. Brontie Ansell of Lawyers for Nature is working to change that — giving the natural world a voice in law, in policy, and even inside the company boardroom.
The tech agency with no boss and no shareholders
A digital agency in Finsbury Park, London, owned by the people who do the work — where decisions are made by consent, the profits fund a community, and now that "being good" has gone mainstream, standing out is its own kind of problem.
Written into the constitution: How Italy nurtures and protects its co-ops
Professor Vera Zamagni on the constitutional article that's shielded Italian cooperatives since 1948, why small firms and cooperatives coexist rather than compete to the death, and why she thinks artificial intelligence — not politics — is now the bigger threat.
How a worker co-op outlasted the collapse of London's print trade
Cherry Haynes and Siôn Whellens of Calverts on hiring sceptics, refusing to compete on price, and why control matters more than ownership.
Exploring Community Wealth Building with Neil McInroy
Scotland has become the first country in the world to write community wealth building into law. But what does that mean for the places where people actually live and work — and can a framework like this hold against the pull of global capital, data centres and footloose investment?
Inside Europe's largest equal pay workers' co-operative
This deep dive explores their innovative approach to ownership, pay equity, decision-making, and resilience in a capitalist world.
Fact and Fiction - The books I'm reading
I wanted to share some ot the non-fiction and fiction books I've been reading recently, and would recommend to anyone who hasn't yet come across them.
Another way is possible: Businesses and economies can serve people, rather than the other way round
Conventional business practices are choices, and are not the only means by which success and growth can be achieved. The means of production can be owned by the workers instead of the capitalist class. The surplus produced by a company can be shared among the workers who sustain it.
We need to change the narrative
Prevailing narratives, while embraced by many and forces to be reckoned with, are not rigid, static things. They can and do change constantly.