Imagine standing on a stretch of dry, undulating land in western Maharashtra where nothing existed — no school, no clinic, no market, no paved road — and being told that within a few decades, a self-sufficient township of over 50,000 people would rise here, complete with sugar factories, dairies, engineering works, shopping complexes, colleges, and … Read more
In the harbour of Copenhagen, twenty turbines rise from the shallow waters of the Øresund strait, each one owned not by a corporation but by ordinary citizens — teachers, nurses, retired dock workers. The Middelgrunden Wind Cooperative, established in 2000, has approximately 8,553 member-shareholders who collectively invested in a 40 MW offshore wind farm. Each … Read more
In March 2022, Ramesh Jadhav — a smallholder cotton farmer in Khandala village, Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra — owed ₹1.4 lakh to a private moneylender at 36% annual interest. By January 2026, he was debt-free, had ₹80,000 in savings, and had just taken a ₹2 lakh crop loan at 4% interest from a cooperative he once … Read more
