Evergreen Cooperatives: A 2-minute story that aired on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
A 6-minute triler for a piece that aired on a PBS David Brancaccio program titled "Fixing the Future."
Cleveland's Evergreen Cooperative Initiative launched its first community-based business on October 21, and more are on the way.
Cleveland launches effort to recycled housing through
"deconstruction" initiative
In Cleveland, 10,000 abandoned and stripped homes need to be torn down. City leaders, supported by the Cleveland Foundation, are building a deconstruction industry that aims to provide jobs, reuse materials, and help stabilize neighborhoods.
C-W.org's Gar Alperovitz discusses his latest book, Unjust Deserts. (coauthored by Lew Daly of Demos)
In the 60-minute video, Alperovitz talks at Politics & Prose about issues of wealth and inequality in our nation's economy.
Videos Outline Mondragón Worker Cooperative Model
Mondragón, based in the Basque region of Spain, is the world's largest worker cooperative with more than 100,000 employees.
Produced in 2008, this 14-minute video provides an overview of its scope.
For further background, take a look at this early 1980s hour-long BBC documentary.
Manufactured Housing Co-ops Achieve Scale
Manufactured Home Parks: Real Assets Real Communities, a 12-minute video by Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund, highlights efforts by manufactured housing residents to own the land their homes sit on by forming resident-owned cooperatives.
Pioneer Human Services Video
Produced in 2006, this 14-minute video describes the work of Pioneer
Human Services, one of America's leading social enterprises. Founded
in Seattle in 1962, Pioneer employs 700 people in its businesses,
most of who come from its target population of ex-offenders and
former drug abusers. Its annual budget of $55 million is funded
nearly entirely through Pioneer's business income. For more information, see Pioneer's website at: www.pioneerhumanservices.com.
Gar Alperovitz talks with members of La Montanita Co-op in New Mexico (October 2008)
In this 30-minute video, filmed by Jim Kavanaugh, Alperovitz talks with food co-op members in Santa Fe, New Mexico about themes in his latest book Just Deserts (coauthored by Lew Daly of Demos).
