See below for details for an online course on integrating the commons, cooperation and sustainability…

 

 

Dear Colleagues & Friends,

I’m emailing about an upcoming free online course on commons, co-operation and sustainability.  The course is offered by Synergia, an international network that emerged out of BALTA’s work and involves some of those who were involved in BALTA, as well as many others around the world.  It is also supported by Athabasca University, one of the academic institutions that played a key role in BALTA.  Synergia was formed a few years ago to provide education in support of promoting convergence between the commons, co-operative, social economy and sustainability movements.  So far it has offered an international residential retreat program hosted in Italy in 2017 and a MOOC (massive open online course) offered in 2017.  This new MOOC course builds on the first one.

The course is entitled Towards Co-operative CommonWealth: Transition in a Perilous Century.  It will consist of 8 modules offered over two 4-week periods.  The first period starts on March 25.  With a break between, the second 4-week period will start on May 20.  The 8 modules that make up the course are as follows:

1. Framing the Journey: Capitalism, Planetary Limits & The Struggle to Restore & Share our Common Wealth

2. Stewarding Land & Resources for the Common Good

3. Ecological Resilience & a Just Food System

4. Precarious Livelihoods: Pathways to Solidarity

5. Democratizing Social Care: From Welfare State to Caring Society

6. Democratic Ownership: Pathways to a Resilient Energy Future

7. Democratic Financing Solutions for the Great Transition

8. Synthesis: Building the Politics for Systems Change

As well as being of great benefit to individual participants, the course is intended to be a tool for networks to use in support of their own work, whether these networks be local or cause based.  The course work includes weekly discussion in groups that can be organized by various networks for their own purposes.

The course is entirely free, other than your time commitment.  Or there is an option to pay $269 for course accreditation in Athabasca University graduate programs.  Those who complete the course without paying will receive a completion certificate.

This may be of interest to you, your colleagues and networks and/or students in your programs.  Please pass on to those you think might be interested.

For further information, go to:  https://synergiainstitute.org/2019/01/19/towards-co-operative-common-wealth-transition-in-a-perilous-century/

To sign-up for the course, go to:  https://www.canvas.net/browse/athabascauniversity/courses/transition-cooperative-commonwealth

Regards,

Stuart

Stuart Wulff

1154 McGillvary Avenue

Gabriola, BC, V0R 1X2

Tel:  1-250-325-9025

[log in to unmask]