The Cooperative Society Newsletter
August 2025, Issue 54
By E.G. Nadeau, Ph.D.
Greetings to all of you who read The Cooperative Society Project’s bimonthly newsletter.
Our first article was published in January 2017, featuring a cartoon of the just-inaugurated Donald J. Trump as the emperor with no clothes.
This August 2025 article is the 54th and the last in this bimonthly series.
However, that doesn’t mean we’re going away. And we hope you aren’t either.
The Cooperative Society Project website will undergo some minor renovations during the next couple of months.
The Project will continue to pursue its two primary goals:
- Discussing a paradigm shift in which humans may be on the threshold of a new historical stage: one characterized by cooperation, democracy, the equitable distribution of resources, and a sustainable relationship with nature.
- Making recommendations for how we can increase the likelihood of moving toward a more cooperative society during the next several decades.
All 54 newsletter articles and other articles, reports, videos, and social media posts will be available on our website. The primary themes of these posts are the development of cooperative enterprises, societal cooperation, political democracy, economic democracy, quality of life, environmental sustainability, and an emerging cooperative world economy in the 21st century.
Brief summaries of, and information on accessing, the following five books will also continue to be provided on the website:
- The Emerging Cooperative Economy, June 2024
- Strengthening the Cooperative Community, March 2021
- The Cooperative Society: The Next Stage in Human History, with Luc Nadeau, (second edition), September 2018
- The Cooperative Solution: How the United States can tame recessions, reduce inequality, and protect the environment, 2012
- Cooperation Works! with David Thompson, 1996.
Changes in activities will include:
1. Publishing occasional (rather than bimonthly) articles and more in-depth reports.
Topics during the next year may include:
- A “Primer on Building a More Cooperative World Economy”
- A “Report on Lessons Learned from the United Nations-sponsored 2025 International Year of Cooperatives”
- A “Report on the Role of Cooperatives in Ameliorating Climate Change”
2. Joint activities with other US-based and international organizations that share our mission and goals. For example:
- Increasing the role of cooperatives in implementing the United Nations’ development goals programs. There are many cooperatives, non-profit organizations and countries that actively supported the United Nations‘ Millennium Development Goals (MDG) program, which began in 2000 and ended in 2015, and currently support the UN Sustainable Development Goals program, which began in 2016 and ends in 2030. We anticipate a third UN development program, which will likely run from 2031 through 2050. Now is the time to apply the lessons learned since 2000 to shape the third development goals program.
- Preparing a report on how the United States and the rest of the world can recover from Donald Trump’s second term in office and build a more cooperative world economy. Work on that report should begin immediately so that it is ready to serve as part of a plan of action for the 2026 and 2028 US election seasons and begin implementation in January 2029.
3. E.G. Nadeau is currently working on a monthly series of articles on corruption during Trump’s second term in office. This series of articles is not directly associated with The Cooperative Society Project. However, it will soon be accessible on a new website.
Conclusion
Again, thank you, Cooperative Society Project readers and supporters. Please stay with us as we make these minor changes in the Project, and please share with us your ideas, questions and concerns as we move forward by emailing The Cooperative Society.
Here is to working together to create a more cooperative world economy in the decades ahead.