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Existing cooperative communities suggest that a better cooperative future is indeed possible one step at a time. However, we will have to collaborate more—across national, organizational, and institutional boundaries—to overcome additional challenges, catastrophes, and the resulting chaos in the near future. Together we can and must do our best to help the cooperative future grow and to make it sustainable…. To read more click on the link below:

Mengel, T. (2025). Cooperative Futures Imagined – From Earth to Mars and back in: Communities, Issue 206, Spring 2025. Global Ecovillage Network United States. pp. 35-37.

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.

May 1 through May 3 the project team for the Killick Coast North Seniors Co-operative development is piloting its first events:

Please visit us often…

On Monday January 22, 2024 our project signed a partnership agreement with The Good Companions, Ottawa, a non-profit multi-service seniors’ centre, providing opportunities for older adults to participate in social, recreational, educational and volunteer activities and benefit from social and health services. The Good Companions are partnering with Killick Coast North Seniors Co-operative on accessing and running their Seniors’ Centre Without Walls (SCWW), a phone-based group sessions program in the Killick Coast North region.

To support Killick Coast North Seniors Co-operative in accessing and running this program in our region, The Good Companions have also awarded us with a Micro-grant of $ 4,000 for 2024. In addition, the partnership supports Killick Coast North Seniors Co-operative with their onboarding and training program for our program coordinator and facilitator.