B.C. - Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA): Recent submissions
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Navigating Systems Transition (Short version)
(2017-03-22)Revealing the contours of the next system, conceptually and practically, the following examples fall under the banner of “cooperative economic democracy.” Rooted in territories, and operating at multiple levels, cooperative ... -
Seeking Pathways to Sustainable Food - Chapter 6 of The Resilience Imperative: Co-operative Transitions to a Steady State Economy
(New Society Publishers, 2012)This book chapter explores a range of models around the world for seeking pathways to sustainable food production and consumption. It addresses this theme from the overall perspective of the book, which explores a more ... -
Synergia Institute – 3 Week Study Program - Transition to Co-operative Commonwealth: Pathways to a New Political Economy
(2016-06-28)Synergia will be organizing its first face-to-face program at the Synergia Summer Institute, September 4 - 23, 2016, at Monte Ginezzo in Tuscany. Transition to Co-operative Commonwealth - Pathways to a New Political Economy, ... -
Community Economic Development Opportunities in Alberta
(2016-06-25)The Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet) and Momentum, a Calgary, Alberta based community economic development (CED) organization, have issued this brief in Alberta. The brief is directed to the Alberta ... -
Measuring the Size, Scope & Scale of the Social Enterprise Sector in Manitoba
(2016-06-15)This project surveyed social enterprises in Manitoba during the spring and summer of 2011 to develop clear indicators of their size, market activities, and socio‐economic contributions. In this study, a social enterprise ... -
Barriers to Participation in the Unleashing Local Capital Project
(2016-06-14)Unleashing Local Capital (ULC) was initiated and is managed by the Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA). The project empowers rural Alberta communities to invest locally, direct their own economic development ... -
Unleashing Local Capital: Project Evaluation Report
(2016-06-14)Unleashing Local Capital (ULC) was initiated and is managed by the Alberta Community and Co-operative Association (ACCA). The project empowers rural Alberta communities to invest locally, direct their own economic development ... -
Synergia Summer Institute – Monte Ginezzo, Tuscany - Transition to Co-operative Commonwealth: Pathways to a new political economy
(2016-06-10)Synergia will be organizing its first face-to-face program at the Synergia Summer Institute, September 4 - 23, at Monte Ginezzo in Tuscany. Transition to Co-operative Commonwealth - Pathways to a New Political Economy, is ... -
How Germany's State Development Bank Finances Energy Transition
(2016-05-24)In recognition of the long term consequences of relying on a fossil fuel economy, the German government launched a national plan in 2010 to transition away from non-renewable energy sources. The German state development ... -
Scaling Up: The Convergence of Social Economy and Sustainability - Sellsheet
(2016-04-11)The book presented in this sellsheet and recently published by Athabasca University Press examines the potential of the social economy to transform the systems that make our current ways of life unsustainable. The book ... -
Vancouver Community Land Trust Foundation: Examining a model for long-term housing afordability
(2015-06-03)This case study examines the Vancouver Community Land Trust Foundation (Land Trust), a project being implemented in Vancouver, BC by a consortium of non-profit organizations, social finance1 institutions and the municipal ... -
Terms of Reference for BALTA Partners
(BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2014-11)This document outlines the operating principles and values of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). -
Final Mapping Report: Environmental Organizations
(2014-03-12)In 2010 the BALTA Mapping Team completed their survey of social economy organizations in Alberta and British Columbia. An important finding of this Mapping research was that a subsection of the population indicated that ... -
Synergia Project
(2014-02-10)The Synergia Project is a new initiative whose purpose is to promote online learning technology to support the diffusion of co-operative knowledge (both formal and tacit) and practice to meet the challenges of building a ... -
Memorandum of Understanding for BALTA Partners
(2014-02-05)The BALTA research partnership has functioned since 2006. A new partnership research project, Social Economy Intermediaries and the Transition to Sustainability: Scaling Innovation, represents a new research scope and ... -
Faith-Based Organizations Engaged in the Social Economy: The Example of Catholic Religious Orders and the Mennonites
(2013-08-18)This research report is the second phase of a two-part research program investigating the recent contributions of faith communities to social economy initiatives in Canada. The first phase broadly explored the involvement ... -
Mapping the Social Economy in British Columbia and Alberta: Final Report
(2013-04-10)This report begins to paint an interesting portrait of the social economy in BC and Alberta. It was created through the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This alliance was initially started as a 5 year ... -
The Political Economy of Monetary and Financial System Changes to Support Societal Sustainability
(2013-01-21)The political economy of the current financial system is the context out of which alternatives are being forged. Changes to the privatized debt-based monetary system, expansion of co-operative and publicly owned finance ... -
Draft Mandate for the Community-Based Research - Research Cluster (CBR) BALTA 2 Partnership Development Project Scaling Innovation for Sustainability (SIS)
(2012-12-05)The goal of the Scaling Innovation for Sustainability Project is to focus expertise on developing a theoretical and methodological framework for studying the scaling up and scaling out of innovations that re-localize the ... -
Social Economy, Community Resilience and the Transition to Sustainability - List of References
(2012-12-03)This list of references was included in BALTA's Partnership Development Grant funding application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and covers a cross-section of theoretical and ...