Sunday, 29 September 2019
"Introduction to Platform Co-ops" PWYC movie-Thursday October 24, 7.00 OISE/252 Bloor St. W.
With recent revelations about Facebook and other Internet giants raking in millions in to date largely unregulated and untaxed wealth, gained through the unpaid contributions of millions around the world it is clearly time to divide up online wealth in a fairer way. TorontotheBetter,Toronto's first multi-sector online social economy information hub, is pleased to align itself with the new Platform Co-op movement by developing its own platform co-op, an open online tool that like other platform coops will share proceeds equitably with its members. Our purpose is to inform, and educate about the opportunities for a fairer Internet through cooperative ownership, a new field of operation for the long established and proven cooperative economic model. To learn more about the movement join us at our introductory PWYC movie on October 24th in room 6-259 at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. A better Internet world is possible. Let's be part of it.
www.TorontotheBetter.net
This bag is not green or black; it is blank, and as empty as possible. Make it yours for no money down.
Stop working unpaid advertising for cosporations. It's easy Reject their bags and bring your own. Even better if you can resist all the pressures to buy more. Make your blank bag an empty one as often as you can.
Anti-consumers of the world unite! That bag you may be carrying, harmless receptacle, limp, passive-seeming, its fellow plastic brothers and sisters silently eloquent, lining the oceans of the world, is crying one thing, "Buy More",even when it says it's "green". Buy green, buy responsibly, buy union made, but bring your own blank bag for the contents. The logo-printed bag exists to hold whatever you buy while advocating more buying, and our climate tells us we have bought and consumed enough already. What's really in the bag, triumphant connotations aside, even if you didn't buy anything today, is the cash machine of the company whose name is on the outside. Free it may be to have, but you're an unpaid advertiser like it or not.
Dump the bag; there are lots of plain ones available. Green consumerism may be better than the un-green kind, but consumerism it remains.
Monday, 2 September 2019
Eating healthier? Social enterprises have made a start but the best that is yet to come requires political action
One of the first snterprises that joined our directory when we started soon after the start of the second millennium was the now venerable and still vibrant Big Carrot. Time has proven them and us correct in that more and more, particularly millennials and post-millennials want to put only healthy organic ingredients in their body when they eat. So "we the people" have won the policy struggle, but until healthy food becomes a social requirement rather than the luxury it still is at many enterprises we will not be serving the public as a whole. Social enterprises like Big Carrot have often shown the way, but it is up to popular and public will to make the socially desirable an affordable public good.
