Exploring directions Malmö can implement to practically apply regenerative systems thinking to transform urban development and community engagement.
* SundRoot takes part in organizing a Cooperative Network in Malmö, Skåne. The initiative explores possibilities with a Fund where established cooperatives infuse money into startup of ecosystem coops providing needed common services like bookkeeping, IT, design, marketing, and more. The surplus goes back to the fund and can support startup of cooperatives in neglected neighbourhoods in collaboration with social entrepreneurship course at popular people's education so that people get time to identify effective cooperative companies to startup and surplus from those coops can also go to local funds to empower and lift those neighbourhoods. → SundRoot Fund
* SolPunk Systems is a tech cooperative — Solarpunk-inspired, committed to technology that lives in symbiosis with nature and people. Technology that promotes and serves life! Solpunk helps people choose and use technology that respects people, community and openness. The cooperative provides ethical open-source software and peer-to-peer solutions that communities can own and control themselves. → Solpunk Systems
* Händiga Laget — The launch of a platform cooperative for tradespeople such as electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and technicians is being explored → Händiga Laget
* Collaborating with researchers & successful local economy movements like Grassroots Economics to adapt proven methods of empowering people. Exploring implementation of tools like Cyclos for establishing exchange networks in Malmö's neighborhoods. → Common Sense Economics
* SundRoot Fund for Affordable Housing with start in shared cottages that generate income back to the fund through access fees from owners and renting out to travelers. → Delstuga
SundRoot
SundRoot is still early in its journey: the project is building the foundations for democratic economies and cooperative communities, turning vision into practice.
To kick-start these developments - funds, people, competences and resources will be mobilized. SundRoot is open to engage with anyone willing to contribute - individuals or organizations, public institutions, civil society, enterprises, and people who want to support effective and lasting societal change.
The SundRoot Fund uses Open Collective so contributions and finances can be followed in the open. Massvis.se is the fiscal host and takes care of economic accounting and administration.