My friend Andrew McLeod will be speaking on his book, Holy Cooperation: Building Graceful Economies Sunday evening December 14 at 8 P.M. hosted by Church of the Sojourners located at 1129 Florida, between 23rd and 24th.
Andrew McLeod is a cooperative development consultant who works with the California Center for Cooperative Development (Davis, Calif.) and the Northwest Cooperative Development Center (Olympia, Wash.). He is now a candidate for the Masters in Management – Cooperatives and Credit Unions from the Sobey Business School at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He has been involved in the cooperative movement since 1992. His interests include democratic processes, the intersection of cooperative economics and religion, community-based food production and distribution, international models for power-sharing, and cooperative disaster recovery techniques. His past work includes serving on the organizing committees for several conferences on the regional and national levels, as well as providing pro bono consulting to groups in area still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Andrew is the author of Holy Cooperation!: Building Graceful Economies, a book that explores cooperative elements of Christianity. He recently presented a paper on common cooperative tendencies found in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, at the International Cooperative Alliance Research Conference in Riva del Garda, Italy. He has also written several published articles and maintains a blog at www.coopgeek.wordpress.com.
Andrew attends a church called Flood that is exploring how we can share our resources, and planning to convert some of our lawn into food production.
