Blog

•  12/17/2020 12:53 PM

Cleveland Owns joined a coalition of local environmental justice and advocacy groups to create a progressive policy agenda for environmental justice in Cleveland.

•  12/15/2020 08:54 AM

Through the Energy Democracy Initiative, Cleveland Owns promotes community stewardship of renewable energy assets and advocates for a more humane utility system

•  10/23/2020 12:10 PM

It was great to see so many friends and allies Thursday at our annual event!

•  9/29/2020 01:52 PM

•  9/22/2020 12:01 PM

•  9/4/2020 03:18 PM

Join us in welcoming Cleveland Owns' newest team member, Holly Davenport! Holly joins us for one year as an organizer through Americorps VISTA. She'll focus on supporting a community-owned solar garden a group of innovative neighbors in Hough are championing.

•  6/29/2020 03:11 PM

Today Mordecai, Indigo, Adam, and Jonathan write in the new Cleveland Business Journal that the uprisings in response to the police murder of George Floyd means it's time for an ownership revolution. Nothing less will do. Check it!

•  6/16/2020 11:32 AM

Through Americorps VISTA, we’re recruiting a motivated new team member unwilling to accept the inequality in Cleveland today, and ready to act for justice. As a part of the Cleveland Owns team, you’ll work in community organizing and co-op development related to our solar portfolio, including Cleveland Solar Cooperative and the Hough Community Solar Garden.

•  6/1/2020 12:17 PM

Cleveland Owns is proud to work with a group of organizers, residents, and institutions in the Central and Kinsman neighborhoods resisting the specific economic injustice of food apartheid. We're planning for a food cooperative in that area owned by residents and workers.

•  5/26/2020 04:21 PM

This weekend the Cleveland Solar Cooperative held its first official member meeting, approved bylaws and elected a board. We're thrilled to see this group take flight! The Cleveland Solar Cooperative, a project of Cleveland Owns, will promote a more democratic energy system through collective ownership of solar arrays.

•  5/14/2020 10:37 AM

Access to electricity, gas, water, and internet is a human right. We're proud to join more than 50 anti-poverty groups in Ohio in a letter to Governor DeWine and Chair of the Public Utility Commission of Ohio Randazzo calling for humane statewide utility policy during the covid-19 crisis, to ensure every household has electricity, water, gas, and internet. Doing so will upset the large, profitable corporations that have monopolized the provision of these human rights for decades. But before the crisis, and more than ever today, in the middle of a global pandemic, their profits are less important than our rights.

•  4/22/2020 02:09 PM

Today in an article in Cleveland Scene, board members Mordecai, Adam, and Jonathan describe the urgent need to use collective ownership to rebuild a more equitable economy in Northeast Ohio.