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Ten years after the 2007-2008 housing crisis began, people across race and class are increasingly affected by the protracted crisis of U.S. housing affordability. Many who own homes remain in precarious positions with unaffordable mortgages. Fewer and fewer families and individuals can afford to buy a home and are swelling the ranks of “the renter nation”. Renters find themselves paying more and more of their paycheck to rent while evictions are skyrocketing. Housing stress is a part of life for millions of people. If someone is not experiencing it, they likely know someone who is.

Indeed, I would say that citizen and resident engagement is the more important parallel track to the Big Players – perhaps even the long-term ‘holy grail’ – for pursuing a more embedded, engaged and ultimately a more encompassing energy transformation for our societies. People – as consumers and prosumers – have the power to change their consumption habits and their sources of energy. Everyone has a choice of what mode of transport they take, what food they eat, what electricity they use…

Welcome to your community energy handbook. This is your go-to guide, packed with instructions, practical tips and resources, to build a local, community-led renewable energy revolution in Europe.

Event planning is tough, especially if you’re a small-staff association professional with limited time and resources.

This guide is designed for use by housing cooperative boards of directors, resident members and co-op partners. It defines what a cooperative is, highlights the history of the cooperative movement, explains how co-ops are managed and governed, explores what co-op members can do to recognize and weed out problems early on and provides guidelines that allow the best elements of cooperative living to take root and grow.

This Handbook is meant to provide as much information as possible regarding the details of living in the cooperative. It is intended as a reference resource. We hope that when you have a question regarding life in the Amalgamated, you will be able to turn to the Handbook for the answer, or information to help you find the answer.

it is a framework for you to use in creating a handbook for the members of your cooperative’s staff who work in California. It does not contain every potential policy your cooperative may need or want to include for optimal staff management and retention. Rather, it includes policies that help to manage common workplace issues and essential policies to comply with federal and California state laws. This tool also includes some suggested policy language to comply with some of the city ordinances related to employment that apply to personnel who work in San Francisco and Oakland. There may be other city ordinances that apply to employees who work in these cities and other cities. City ordinances should be checked regularly for laws applicable to personnel working within that city’s jurisdiction.