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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Find an independent place that focuses on research of whether investments are green or not, and which respect human rights.

    Some banks provide a transparency list of what they invest in. ASN Bank and Triodos for example would be relatively decent candidates.

    I wish there were an investment list though, of DUWOCS (decentralised, unionised and worker-owned co-ops), so that we could pool our strength into those.

    A possibility would be non-voting, non-tradeable and worker-preferred shares, where outside investors only get a bit of the profit back. Public loan funds are another option, that loan out money to those cooperatives and then pay back return on interest to you, in the form of e.g. paying something for you that you need (like a sort of coupon) to improve your life standards.

    Part of the returns then also could go to spreading worker-owned cooperatives, and gathering them into federations of those.

    That could motivate a move toward a gift economy.







  • For people in the Netherlands and Belgium: Bol.com.

    For elsewhere: AliExpress, Temu, Vinted (European).

    For more specialised services:

    Furniture: IKEA (Swedish)
    Clothes: Zalando (German)
    Food delivery: Jumia (German), HelloFresh (German).

    Generally, it’s best to buy directly from the companies themselves. Buy from small or mid-sized companies. You’ll skip on the high prices that way, as there’s no markup. Additionally, since you are not one of millions of consumers - but one of a few hundred, they will care more about you.