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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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The Land Society

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We support people in housing need in towns and villages to self build their own affordable home. We provide all the technical and professional input to enable people to get together as a community in a Community Land Trust (CLT) to buy suitable land and build energy efficient, affordable, sustainable homes.

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Manchester Capitalism: A View From The North: Introducing The Foundational Economy

The Guardian has just begun a series of articles following the ‘Enfield Experiment’.  That experiment attempts to use local authority initiatives to reverse a long history of economic decline in one of the most depressed parts of the supposedly booming London economy.  At its heart is a new conception of the obligations of business: one that stresses the obligation of enterprises as various as utilities and supermarkets to organise themselves to put  some of the profits they make from the community back into that community, in the form of business for local suppliers and jobs for local residents.

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