Overview

Toward Co-operative Commonwealth: Transition in a Perilous Century Announcing a Unique Learning Opportunity for Changemakers Everywhere Synergia collaborates with practitioners, policymakers, and academics to create and advance change that makes a difference in communities, regions, and broader systems, especially alternatives responding to local and global crises. Cooperative economic democracy is a central theme throughout our work- a framework of concepts, values, and practices that give priority to resilience over economic growth co-operation over competition sufficiency over efficiency well-being over the right to possess fairness and equity over the primacy of markets, trade, and capital decentralized and democratic ownership over centralized power and private ownership climate justice and just transition the commons over the rights of private property, and our dependence upon nature over our right to dominate it. These are not merely theoretical propositions. They are choices about what is paramount for transition in a perilous century. They are the basis for a comprehensive alternative to the status quo – a compendium of ideas, models, and movements that are essential to our collective capacity for transition and survival. These alternatives, and the means to apply them, are the focus of our work. Synergia’s mission to inspire, educate and animate people to act is relevant to both those beginning the transition journey and those who have been in the trenches for years.