Enabling Co-operative Enterprises To Grow the Green Economy

= Report: Sharing Prosperity. Enabling co-operative enterprises to grow the green economy. Cymru/Wales

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Summary

Pat Conaty:

"The recommendations grew out of deliberative discussions at a Mid Wales conference that we ran this summer to help community based local food, co-operative energy and community recycling projects to expand their small scale good practice. We asked them in the day long working groups to identify the impediments.

The groups concluded that co-operative methodologies and co-operative consortia are key. As Mike Lewis and I point out in chapter 10 of our book, you only have to look to Emilia Romagna where the Co-op sector accounts for 40% of GDP and to Denmark where public-co-operative energy partnerships have fought to build up 40% of the energy market and to decentralise and go green to see the strategic importance of robust co-op methods for 'common-ing solutions'.

You will note good small project commoning practices in the case studies in the Wales report but a host of bad practice barriers to be tackled and overcome. The recommendations indicate how social-public partnerships could be co-designed and co-developed."