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Co-ops Bring Hope to Stuttering Economies

There’s something in the air that smells like hope. 

 

A timber corporation pulls out of a small town in British Columbia. A community forest co-op buys out the license. The forest and the right to cut it is now jointly owned by the municipal council, community members, the local First Nation and the union, who have a vested interest in keeping the harvest sustainable. 

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