Worker-Owned Cooperatives with Gar Alperovitz

February 16, 2012 at 7pm   ***Field Trip to Rollins College!***

Author, political-economist, historian Gar Alperovitz–one of the designers of the Cleveland Model of worker-owned cooperatives that is receiving a lot of media attention from Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Nation, to name just a few. The Cleveland Model of cooperatives is based on the extremely successful model in Mondragon, Spain where dozens of  businesses are owned by over 100.000 workers. In Cleveland, the model already encompasses three major businesses: an industrial-size ‘green’ laundry cleaning operation, a solar energy company and the largest urban green house in the United States. More info: http://www.meetup.com/Green-Drinks/