Green alleys are citizen projects that aim to improve the urban environment by taking direct ownership of underutilized and often neglected space. A green alley can be divided into spaces that serve different uses. For example, citizens involved in the project may want a space for eating, urban agriculture, playing, resting or socializing. These spaces can contain all sorts of elements: flowerbeds, plant strips, honeycombed paving stones, planting boxes, trees, shrubs and climbing plants, murals, urban furniture, play modules, etc. In addition to enhancing a neglected space, the transformation of alleys discourages the illegal dumping of waste, harmful activities and contributes to the fight against heat islands. source text Photo: - Le Devoir André Brisebois lives on Henri-Julien street, near the small Demers street, on the Plateau-Mont-Royal. The street is not an authentic alley because it has a name, and an ancestral house proudly displays an address. Patrick Lavoie, President of the Modigliani Green Lane Committee, accompanied by some members and residents of the neighborhood. Photo: Dominic Gildener/Métro Média Illustration. A green alley in Montreal - Wikicommons

A unique combination of actors from civil society, the agricultural world and solidarity finance, the Terre de Liens movement derives its originality from the articulation between an associative network active throughout France, a solidarity investment company and a foundation recognised as being of public utility. sources text and images Terre de Liens

All for Climate We are a back office and a fiscal sponsor for your local group Managing administration and money can be a stress for small or bigger collectives that want to start creating and building. That is exactly why we started this shared nonprofit: one common legal entity bears the burden for all collectives. It saves time for everyone. We truly believe that active citizens should focus on executing ideas, not on administration and reporting taxes What exactly does All For Climate provide? * a homepage with your own url and your own transparant collective balance (always know exactly how much money you have) * a link to a donate button to add to your website, lots of options for fundraising and receiving donations * full autonomy: it is your money, you decide. We are unincorporated partners. * easy and quick reimbursement of expenses you have (receipts, invoices, ...), directly from your collective's balance * options to create events for your collective (with built-in ticket system) and sending newsletters and updates * a back office that provides you with a monthly finance report * a legal entity to sign for all applications to receive subsidies and funds from institutions and governments * a huge network of like minded people to share expertise and learn, all working on climate and social justice System by All For Climate, source: All For Climate logo All For Climate, source: All For Climate illustration All For Climate, source: Open Collective Source texte All For Climate

Enspiral defies simple explanation. It is many things to many people at once. It is a mutual aid network. It is a social impact entrepreneurial incubator. It is a future of work and new economy catalyst. It is a collection of channels on different mediums punctuated by meet-ups and retreats. It is a network of colleagues and friends. It’s none of these things and all of them at once. You’ll get a different answer for what it is from each person you ask. Myself, Emma Buck, and Emmi Bevensee, through Rebellious Data, set out to try and get an answer, if not a definitive one, then one that captured all of this complexity. In May, we proposed, and got funded within Enspiral, to do an impact report of the Enspiral Network. Doing impact evaluation on an organization like this is far different and more complex than on anything else we’ve worked on. In four years, Enspiral evolved from a vision of "more people working on stuff that matters" to a global network of socially-minded individuals and enterprises. (Courtesy Enspiral) Individuals can choose among multiple levels of engagement. (Courtesy Enspiral) Enspiral Space is Enspiral's co-working facility in Wellington, New Zealand. (Courtesy Enspiral) Main image: Enspiral Foundation is funded by voluntary contributions from Enspiral Ventures. (Courtesy Enspiral) Main text: Enspiral Foundation

femProcomuns is a non-profit and social initiative, worker and consumer multi-stakeholder cooperative, created in Catalonia in 2017, with the aim of consolidating a commons ecosystem, based on the principles of open cooperativism, community self-management, human, ecological, economic sustainability, shared knowledge and replicability.. * We are building a strategic social tool to make commons activity viable and sustainable. * We work with the model of the 5 pillars of sustainability of the commons: community, participatory governance, resource mobilization, co-production, shared knowledge. * We organize ourselves into operating commissions and groups of cooperative activity. * We use free technological tools to facilitate management, participation, co-work and communication processes. * We promote the cooperativization of work and opted for the general social security regime. * We provide cooperative funds and capital to gain solvency and economic strength. * We work on the sustainability and communitary management of commons oriented projects, participation, knowledge and free technologies as well as their social application, and we pay special attention to the processes, ways of doing (things), collaborating and co-creating. source: Remix The Commons Albert Calomarde, from the Azimut360 cooperative, explaining the model of the Solbrai cooperative local energy community | One of the group work tables at the session "Ecosistema Transitant: l'energia, un procomú" / M. GARRIGA - D. JACOVKIS - FEMPROCOMUNS Source: FemProcomuns Source: Frédéric Sultan Source texte: FemProcomuns

The [Distributed Cooperative Organization] (https://disco.coop/) can be linked to a growing network that supports common initiatives, shared work and more common experiences. Being part of the cooperative implies a commitment to its values and requires the ability to devote time to it. It is about finding a balance between role and responsibility. There are different ways to take part in the experiment, from peer-to-peer communal production to a more traditional commune with clear rules of governance. DisCO is, first and foremost, an example of a peer-to-peer (P2P) system, promoting interdependence and inclusive work. It allows access to open sources, common principles and social solidarity. All this with the aim of carrying out meaningful and common projects built in parallel with an alternative to the current exclusive economy. DisCO Manifesto DisCO- Distributed Cooperative Organization

Decidim is a participation software for civic, public or private organizations and institutions. The Decidim web platform allows the organization of different participatory processes such as participatory budgets, petitions, calls for projects, consultations, consultations, raffles and citizen conventions. Global Execution system The digital and democratic platform for citizen participation. Decidim Barcelona The digital and democratic platform for citizen participation. Decidim Barcelona Source texte

MOBA is a Peer-2-Peer platform launched by a new wave of community-led/cooperative housing initiatives in Central and South-Eastern Europe. The housing situation in this region is in crisis: many households cannot afford to pay for their homes, and many young people have no possibility to live independently. There is an urgent need for new housing models. MOBA was formed when groups from Belgrade, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague and Zagreb met and discovered how much they could benefit from supporting each other and joining their efforts to realise pilot projects in their five cities. Source texte: MOBA Housing SCE Source images: MOBA Housing SCE