When people spend more of their money in locally controlled businesses, they experience the beneficial multiplier effect of having money circulate within their community. Cooperatives are often locally owned by people within a community. Locally owned businesses spend more payroll and operating dollars locally. Locally owned cooperatives return their profits to their local owners. When these dollars are re-circulated within the community, everyone benefits.
Cooperatives help keep money in the community.
For more information about how cooperatives build economic sustainability, click here. Some cooperatives are dedicated to moving toward a future that ensures generations to come a healthy stock of environmental and natural resource assets. Use renewable resources faster than their rate of renewal. Cause cumulative degradation of the environment. Require resources in quantities that undermine other people's well-being.