Meet the DEAL Community

Central New York

I work in agricultural extension and help to facilitate conversations around compensating farmers for ecosystem service provision and perennial agriculture adoption. I also depend heavily on grants for much of my work, and I'd like to be thinking about the upstream implications of the philanthropic system and engaging in conversations about changes to that system that could serve society more broadly.

Melbourne

City Compost Network is on a mission to create a culture in which composting and food waste recycling is the most natural and easy thing to do. We have interviewed 12 apartment and community compost and food waste recycling initiatives across Australia on their setup and management. Current available two episode are published on podbean. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jqs4j-130ec52?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_share

London, United Kingdom

India

Mold

Bollington, Cheshire

Cliff Mills is a specialist in the law of co-operatives, mutuals and member-based organisations, a consultant with Anthony Collins Solicitors and Principal Associate at Mutuo. He has advised on the governance of cooperatives for thirty years. He has advised many of the movement’s institutions and worked on the modernisation of UK co-operative law through private members’ bills.  He has extensively promoted the application of cooperative ideas and approaches in the public sector. He was the UK appointed expert for the International Cooperative Alliance’s global cooperative law project in 2019.  He champions cooperatives as enterprises for the common good rather than private gain and promotes cooperative governance as an alternative to contracts as a basis for commercial relationships.