Doing things differently
Patrick Kingsley looks at communities finding new solutions to old challenges
Michael Gove's national curriculum reforms: where's the creativity?
We could look to the unconventional Lumiar schools in Brazil, which believe that children learn best when they have a say in what they're learning
The orchestra as mass collaboration
Tod Machover is democratising classical music – by inviting Toronto's 2.6 million inhabitants to be composers
Windfarms: is community ownership the way ahead?
On the Danish island of Samsø many of the wind turbines are owned by the residents. Is that the way around nimbyism?
FC United: united by name, united by nature
FC United of Manchester is a very different kind of football team – with an emphasis on the fans and the local community
Co-operative politics for busy people
A new online tool allows co-operatives to make decisions through the internet – meaning members can be more involved
Towards a no-growth future
It used to be economic heresy – but there's a rising wave of opinion that growth is really not sustainable, writes Patrick Kingsley
A business with no bosses
Yorkshire-based Suma Wholefoods is one of the country's 6,000 co-operative companies
The German newspaper saved by its readers
While the British press debates the merits of paywalls, the once-threatened Berlin-based paper Die Tageszeitung is thriving under a new co-operative model
South Africa's shack-dwellers fight back
Abahlali baseMjondolo, a movement campaigning for South Africa's notorious shack developments, has been labelled 'neurotically democratic' – but its leader prefers to call it 'living communism'
Eigg: the answer to Britain's housing crisis?
The inhabitants of the tiny Scottish island had an ingenious solution to managing their homes – they set up a community trust and bought back the land from the island's owner
Participatory democracy in Porto Alegre
The first of a new series: this Brazilian city's municipal assembly challenges conventional systems of govermnent – and it works
