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22 February '12

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Part II – El Triunfo: A Land Before Time

By Todd Caspersen, Director of Purchasing
Photos by Joe Driscoll, Equipment Guru

El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve protects cloud forests on the upper slopes of the Sierra Madre, as well as the wet tropical rainforests of the Soconusco on the Mexican Pacific. It is also home to 15,000-18,000 people who...

The Rise and Fall of Burley Design Cooperative

Joel Schoening has a thorough retrospective on the demutualized business in the Oregon Historical Quarterly's Fall 2010 edition. 

"Over the next twenty years, the cooperative they created faced its share of organizational and financial struggles, and...

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Creating a Democratic Workplace Through Worker Cooperatives

From the iVLG blog:

Today’s post is going to digress from discussing the standard business model and introduce you to a different form of running a business: the worker...

A Conceptual Guide to Employee Ownership for Very Small Businesses

From the National Center for Employee Ownership:

Many smaller companies want to share ownership with employees but find the legal costs and complexities of various common plans daunting. For owners wanting to sell to employees, an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) has great tax benefits, but its...

Oblique Solutions NW

Oblique Solutions NWQ offers collaborative approaches to problem solving from Bob Davis in the great Northwest.  Consulting for Co-op Development, Governance, Consensus Decision-Making & Facilitation.

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Drexel University Exploring Cooperatives Conference to be Held June 13th

This one-day conference  June 13, 2012 at Drexel University in Philadelphia will explore what two cities can learn from one another about building cooperatives and cooperative networks, and what cooperatives contribute to cities, regions and states. Our conference also provides an opportunity to learn from the Honorable Chaka Fattah about the National Cooperative Development...

Job Opening: Equal Exchange Production Assistant, West Bridgewater, MA

Equal Exchange, the largest worker-owned coffee roasting facility in the United States, is looking for a Production Assistant to join our production team.  The successful applicant will become a part of our production team which seeks to be a highly effective and flexible...

Democratic Worker Cooperatives: An Organizational Strategy Reconsidered for the 21st Century

Professor John Lawrence, a member of the Grassroots Economic Organizing collective, writes in Baltimore's Indypendent Reader in 2007. 

During the industrial revolution in the United States, labor organizations such as the National Trades' Union, National Labor...

Madison cooperatives offer an alternative to a system of haves and have-nots

From isthmus.com

Protesters flood the street, chants and song punctuated by drumming and the low, steady honk of a tuba. Sign after sign decries the attack against nurses, teachers and sanitation workers; others demand a living wage in bold letters. A man stands before a podium addressing the masses, crying, "...