Such fun!,” said one member of Killick Coast North Seniors Co-operative (KCN Seniors Co-op)1. We had just finished playing the game Co-opoly2 at our weekly Games Night in celebration of Co-op Week 2024 (October 13-19 in Canada). Ten players at two tables were each assigned individual roles as members of a cooperative. To win, each cooperative must master various challenges and ultimately co-create a second cooperative for the community. If individual members, or the cooperative, run out of resources, all members of that cooperative lose the game.

“Very different, very different…,” commented another player comparing it to competitive and profit-oriented games like Monopoly or Rumoli, where one or only a few individual players win while others lose. Everyone loved the fun activities and communal decision=making, much like in the three million existing cooperatives worldwide with over one billion members… To Read More, click on the link below:

Mengel, T. (2025). The Future is Cooperative – What might it look like and how do we get there? in: Communities, Issue 206, Spring 2025. Global Ecovillage Network United States. pp. 31-34.