Richmond Cooperative Outline

1 Nicholas Roberts permacultuercoop@gmail.
com
Richmond Cooperative Proposal Essay Outline
Richmond Cooperative
The Richmond Cooperative Experience: How to make a sustainability worker cooperative

network in 21st century USA
or Richmond Cooperative Corporation: Making the Richmond Cooperative Experience
or Title: Richmond Cooperative Experience: Making the Richmond Cooperative Corporation

Sub-Title: How to make a local sustainability worker cooperative network in 21st century USA.
• Essay Draft: ESSAY: Richmond Cooperative Experience

• Presentation Draft: PRESENTATION: Richmond Cooperative Experience
2 Nicholas Roberts permacultuercoop@gmail.com
Contents
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• 1 Stages
• 2 Scope
• 3 Problem
• 4 Solution
• 5 Justification
• 6 Introduction
• 6.1 Hook
• 6.2 Thesis Statement
• 6.2.1 Topic
• 6.2.2 Specific Topic/Issue/Problem
• 6.2.3 Counter-Argument
• 6.2.4 Your Argument/Proposed Solution
• 6.2.5 Supporting Reasons/Justification
• 6.3 Case-Studies
• 6.3.1 Summarizing 2-3 Services
• 6.3.2 Service 1: Research
• 6.3.3 Service 2: Websites
• 6.3.4 Service 3: Participation
• 6.3.5 Overall Significance
• 7 Explain the Problem
• 7.1 Who Suffers?
• 7.2 Where?
• 7.3 What?
• 7.4 How did this problem start?
• 7.5 Why hasn't it been solved before?
• 8 Counter Argument
• 8.1 Explain the counter-argument
• 8.2 Rebuttal
• 9 Illustrate Problem
• 10 Proposed Solution
• 11 MIT CoLab Framework
• 11.1 Where?
• 12 Access
• 12.1 Who
• 12.1.1 How Many? Criteria?
• 12.1.2 How will you recruit them ?
• 12.1.3 What will they do?
• 12.1.4 Training?
• 12.1.5 Compensation?
• 12.1.6 What are there hours?
•
• 13 Services
• 13.1 Service 1: Research
• 13.1.1 Explain
• 13.1.2 Example
• 13.2 Service 2: Websites
• 13.2.1 Explain
• 13.2.2 Example
• 13.3 Service 3: Participation
• 13.3.1 Explain
• 13.3.2 Example
• 13.4 Web-system Ideas
• 14 Equipment
• 15 Funding
• 15.1 Break down the costs
• 15.2 Sources of Funding
• 16 Digital Technology
• 16.1 Internet Strategy
• 17 Justification
• 18 Non-Profit Industrial Complex
• 19 Casino Capitalism
• 20 Corporate Services Gentrification
• 21 Conclusion
• 21.1 Restate Thesis
• 21.2 Clincher
• 22 Sources
• 22.1 Cooperative Complexes
• 22.2 Industrial Symbiosis
• 22.3 Grassroots Sustainability
• 22.4 Economic Democracy
• 23 Related
• 24 References
[edit]Stages
Cooperative development goes through recognizable stages; idea, education, research,

feasibility, start-up, launch, growth, spin-off, re-organization etc. This proposal covers the pre-
start-up stages: idea, education, research and feasibility.
[edit]Scope
The scope of the proposal is limited to the role of Nicholas Roberts, an Australian student
studying at Merritt College's Environmental Management & Technology Project and is not a
business plan template for the entire cooperative. It suggests ways to generate pathways and
patterns.
[edit]Problem
The City of Richmond has some of the worst social, economic and environmental problems of
any city in California, USA and the world. In many ways its a microcosm of the problems of
the world. A huge, polluting, multi-national energy corporation dominates economic life in the
area, while surrounding the processing plants is pollution and dispossession, symptoms such
as mass-unemployment, drugs and crime.
[edit]Solution
With participation of community stakeholders, identify and map the places, institutions,
industries, products and services, markets and commons for developing Richmond economic
democracy. Develop a pathway to a green, ownership society, with vibrant social enterprise
and cooperative sector. Localize services and establish culture and institution of local rights of
nature and community. Define scope for community resource management media and
systems. Within this roadmap use primary case-studies of Evergreen Cooperative
(Cleveland), Mondragon Cooperative (Basque Country) and secondary case-studies of
EdVisions Cooperative (Minessota), Pachamama Cooperative (Davis, CA) and Arizmendi
Association (Bay Area, CA). For grassroots education a glance at the Democracy Schools &
Transition Towns Totnes movement UK and for grassroots economic organising the
Bangladeshi BRAC and Grameen Bank as resource templates. Emerging from the process
will be a Richmond Cooperative that is a hybrid multi-stakeholder worker-cooperative network
for the challenges of peak oil, climate change and the Great Recession.
[edit]Justification
Green jobs are not enough to build sustainable wealth and democracy in a society such as
Richmond. Community-led development and asset building must be done through
participation in ownership as well as employment, in participation in management as well as
jobs training and education. The Mondragon Cooperative - City of Richmond memorandum of
understanding and the success of the Cleveland Evergreen Cooperative, and the new study
from MIT gives greater authority to this option, which focusses on the Bronx of NYC, a similar
demographic and cultural milieu to Richmond.
[edit]Introduction
The Richmond Cooperative Proposal is a long-term, community-led development program to

develop a sustainable, locally and employee owned, democratic network of green worker-
cooperatives businesses in Richmond, CA in the Bay Area. By leveraging existing institutional
resources in Richmond, Bay Area, USA and the world. By being a participant in the existing
process of cooperative education and organizing Nicholas Roberts (and his partner Kirstie
Stramler) will continue with their research on global sustainability worker cooperative
networks.
[edit]Hook
Do you want Chevron Corporation Experience or Richmond Cooperative Experience? A

community-led development, which creates ownership in green and clean, appropriate
technology businesses? Or a society and politics polluted by big business? Casino capitalism,
Big Oil and distorted democracy and dirty tricks or democratic ownership and participation in
management of a locally owned and controlled sustainability cooperative network?
[edit]Thesis Statement
[edit]Topic
poverty, pollution and dispossession transition to equity, environment and entrepreneurship in

sustainable economic democracy in Richmond, CA
[edit]Specific Topic/Issue/Problem
Making a sustainable worker-cooperative network in Richmond, CA for wealth, health and

democracy. Through research and networking with goal of facilitating the establishment of a
sustainable, community-owned and controlled economy.
[edit]Counter-Argument
1. Cooperative's don't scale.

2. Cooperatives are for communists, socialists, anarchists, pagans, liberals, foreigners etc
3. Outsiders cannot do anything for Richmond.
4. Cooperative's might work in socialist Europe but they won't work in a freedom loving
capitalist economy like the USA.
5. There is no history or culture of cooperatives in the USA.
[edit]Your Argument/Proposed Solution
By participating in an education and organizing phase, facilitating start-up by publishing

research. By participating in the existing, although new Richmond cooperative experience,
which consists of study groups, seminars, email exchanges and occasional site visits and
field trips. Nicholas can contribute research publications and presentations, videos and
websites.
[edit]Supporting Reasons/Justification
[edit]Case-Studies
MIT Colabs recent report highlights Mondragon Cooperative and the US Evergreen
Cooperatives. From this it extracts a general model for cooperative development. A masters
thesis has also been written which applies this same analysis to the Bronx. From this general
framework is drawn this proposal
• MIT CoLab Coop Framework

• Mondragon Cooperative Case-Study
• Evergreen Cooperative Case-Study
• Arizmendi Association (USA) Case-Study
• EdVisions Cooperative (USA) Case-Study
• Pachamama Cooperative (USA) Case-Study
• BioFeul Oasis (USA) Case-Study
• Toxic Soil Busters (USA) Case-Study
• Organic Lea (UK) Case-Study
• Karlungborg (Denmark) Industrial Symbiosis
[edit]Summarizing 2-3 Services
The 3 activities of research, websites and participation work together in the pre-start-up phase
of the Richmond Cooperative Corporation Experience
[edit]Service 1: Research
By aligning education and research with goals of Richmond Cooperative process can facilitate
the education and development stages of the cooperative.
[edit]Service 2: Websites
By publishing free, educational, public interest websites which aggregate, collate and
synthesize various sources of information regarding the education and organizing for a
Richmond Cooperative.
[edit]Service 3: Participation
Participating in various activities in an ad hoc and volunteer basis with a goal of doing
participatory action research, in other words, connecting research with the actions on the
ground.
[edit]Overall Significance
The transition to an advanced industrial ecology society requires institutional change as well
as technical fixes or behavioral change in consumer democracy. Building a society where
economic equality matches political equalities is the pathway to sustainable self-governance.
In Richmond, the 2010 elections demonstrated the best and worst of the new order of
corporate democracy. Even with the dirty tricks barely indirectly funded from the Chevron
Corporation the people of Richmond chose a pathway to a different future.
[edit]Explain the Problem
• Poverty: "Nearly one out of five people in Richmond were likely living below the poverty
level last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The new report estimates that
poverty among all Richmond residents in 2009 was nearly double both the national and
state averages." Source: Richmond Confidential, American Community Survey 2009,
US Census
• Unemployment:
• Dominant corporate industry:
• Big Oil:
• Casino capitalism:
• Pollution:
"In addition to the Chevron smokestacks in Richmond, residents must contend with busy
freeways running through the community; with a port, where diesel trucks come and go hour
upon hour; and with the rail yards, where trains have been known to idle their engines for
days at a time.
This infrastructure of pollution that is literally built into neighborhoods—neighborhoods where

residents are largely low-income ethnic minorities—is what’s called environmental
racism." The human cost of pollution
"Since 1989, there have been 35 major industrial accidents in Contra Costa County,
California. This makes it one of the most dangerous places to live in the nation. In fact,
between 1989 and 1995, there were over 1900 different incidents reported in the county,
making it the eleventh worst area in the entire United States with regards to toxic accidents."
Environmental Justice Case Study:
"Chevron’s activities in Richmond, California have been the subject of ongoing controversy.
The project generated over 11 million pounds of toxic materials and caused more than 304
accidents.[19] Chevron’s Richmond refineries paid $540,000 in 1998 for illegally bypassing
waste water treatments and failing to notify the public about toxic releases."
West County Toxics Coalition and the Chevron

Refinery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Corporation#Pollution_in_Richmond.2C_Califor
nia
• Demographics:
• Social issues:
• Economic distortian:
• Food deserts:
"Chevron’s Richmond refineries paid $540,000 in 1998 for illegally bypassing waste water
treatments and failing to notify the public about toxic releases." EPA, CHEVRON RICHMOND
REFINERY TO PAY $540,000 ENVIRONMENTAL PENALTY
"Levels of other chemicals known to come from oil refineries, including sulfates and
vanadium, a heavy metal known to cause cancer and respiratory problems in laboratory rats,
were also significantly higher in Richmond than they were in Bolinas both indoors and
outdoors, according to the data." [Study: Refinery pollution trapped in
homes http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6070514]
2006-2008 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates - Data Profile Highlights

[edit]Who Suffers?
The poor people of color who live nearby factories, refineries, roads, railroads
94804 US Census Demographics

[edit]Where?
[edit]What?
Pollution, poverty and disenfranchisement of people of color near heavy, polluting industry
[edit]How did this problem start?
• Heavy industry World War 2
• Kaiser Ship Yards
• Business and population flight to suburbs
[edit]Why hasn't it been solved before?
There is a slow trend towards conversion from heavy-industry to services. An integrated
sustainability worker cooperative network has not been tried before to deal with poverty,
pollution and participation.
[edit]Counter Argument
[edit]Explain the counter-argument
Cooperrative's don't scale. Cooperatives are for communists. Outsiders cannot do anything
for Richmond. Cooperative's might work in socialist Europe but they won't work in a capitalist
economy like the USA. There is no history or culture of cooperatives in the USA.
[edit]Rebuttal
explain how your proposal addresses the counter-arguments
• Cooperative's don't scale: Mondragon Cooperative Corporation 7th largest

corporation in Spain. Mondragon makes automotive parts for major US car
manufacturers. Mondragon is a global operation. Evergreen has scaled-up rapidly.
• Cooperatives are for communists: worker-cooperatives are capitalist institutions
where employees are all entrepreneurs. Worker-cooperatives are more "America" or
"capitalist" than the modern corporation because all worker-owners or employees
participate in management and ownership.
• Outsiders cannot do anything for Richmond: Mondragon was started by a priest
from outside the district. Ted Howard, one of the lead Evergreen Coopperative
developers if from Maryland. Quinton Sankofa from Mandela Marketplace is from
Cleveland. Outside-in or top-down can be over-matched by bottom-up and inside-out
strategies.
• Cooperative's might work in socialist Europe but they won't work in a capitalist
economy like the USA: Evergreen Cooperative was featured favorably in Economist
and numerous other mainstream news and business media. The Gates Foundation is
funding the EdVisions Cooperative networks expansion. The UK Conservatives are
promising worker-cooperative conversion of state-owned public agencies as part of
their Big Society Push.
• There is no history or culture of cooperatives in the USA: For All the People
documents a rich and vibrant history of cooperatives in the USA. The Bay Area is home
to one of the most active English-speaking worker-cooperative scenes.
[edit]Illustrate Problem
provide a story, interview, or personal testimony that demonsrates the urgency and
consequences of the problems if it is not addressed
[edit]Proposed Solution
Working with existing institutions facilitate and map patterns and pathways towards possible
cooperative groups;
• Solar
• Weatherization
• Recycling
• Composting
• Urban Food
• Aquaponics
• Bikes
• Landscaping
• Water: Roof, Greywater and Irrigation
• Biofilters
• Soil-Testing
• Remediation
• Media: hyper-local
• Advocacy
• Worker-cooperative development
• Citizen science
• Environmental justice
[edit]MIT CoLab Framework
• Place: Defined Geographic Area
• Network: Cooperative Network
• Localized Economy: Endogenous Growth Model
[edit]Where?
• Iron Triangle, aka Central Richmond, Google map

• Belding Woods Area maps
[edit]Access
Explain how will you obtain access. Policy? Cost
Free online and via ad hoc volunteer participation
Via the worker cooperative study group, will participate, research and publish. Relatively
inexpensive, some time and internet hosting and connections. Marginal cost nil.
[edit]Who
Staff? Myself in colloboration with the worker cooperative study group and other stakeholders.
[edit]How Many? Criteria?
1, me
[edit]How will you recruit them ?
na
[edit]What will they do?
• websites
• research
• web-pages
• presentations
• videos
• maps
[edit]Training?
• learn more about maps

• learn more about cooperative development
• learn more about community-led development
• learn more about Eclipse modelling tools and build a prototype web-system as
described in Ideas
[edit]Compensation?
• none, NA
[edit]What are there hours?
• 4 hours/week
[edit]Services
[edit]Service 1: Research
[edit]Explain
By aligning education and research with goals of Richmond Cooperative process can facilitate
the education and development stages of the cooperative.
Research Areas: worker-cooperatives, worker-cooperative networks, inter-cooperation,

industrial ecology and industrial symbiosis, sustainable economic democracy, economic
democracy, commons and markets, common-pooled resources, civic media, business

processing re-engineering, participatory action research, participatory systems, sustainability
(economic, social and environmental) justice, food justice etc
[edit]Example
http://www.scribd.com/doc/43797797/Richmond-Cooperative-Experience
[edit]Service 2: Websites
[edit]Explain
By publishing free, educational, public interest websites which aggregate, collate and
synthesize various sources of information regarding the education and organizing for a
Richmond Cooperative.
Elements: Tools, User Stories, User Groups, User-Generated Content, Open-Innovation

Tools: Eclipse, Drupal (ManagingNews, CiviCRM, OpenAtrium, DrupalCommons), Semantic
MediaWiki, GeoServer, OpenLayers
[edit]Example
• http://permaculture.tv
• http://bayarea.permaculture.coop/newsmap
• http://youtube.com/permaculturecoop
• http://video.permaculture.coop
• http://bayarea.permaculture.coop/newsmap/feeds?display=views-mode-
map&zoom=15&lat=37.93612&lon=-122.3507&layers=B000TT
[edit]Service 3: Participation
[edit]Explain
Participating in various activities in an ad hoc and volunteer basis with a goal of doing
participatory action research, in other words, connecting research with the actions on the
ground.
[edit]Example
Participating in online discussions, events etc to create research and websites above
[edit]Web-system Ideas
Eclipse-based sustainability worker cooperative industrial symbiosis inter-cooperation
framework modelling tool. Merge business process reengineering, industrial ecology,
community-led development, social media and peer-based commons production
[edit]Equipment
transportation and supplies
• travel to Richmond via car and BART

• video camera
• digital camera
• mapping tools
• creative tools
[edit]Funding
[edit]Break down the costs

• budget
time, money
travel
• car 1hour round trip, $5 petrol

• BART 2 hour round trip, $4 BART tic
internet
• hosting
• connection
software
• mapping: Managing News, GeoServer, Upashid, MapInfo

• creative
cameras
• video
• still
[edit]Sources of Funding
• part-time student aide job at Merritt College
[edit]Digital Technology
[edit]Internet Strategy
• how can internet, handheld devices are social networking sites help advocate
proposal? How will you build web traffic?
[edit]Justification
• explain why your proposal is the best compared to other options

The Richmond Cooperative proposal is superior because
[edit]Non-Profit Industrial Complex
• non-profits pay nothing to city or state vs worker-cooperatives which contribute
• non-profits do not build worker-wealth
• non-profits suffer from agency problems
• non-profits can incubate worker-cooperatives for diversity of income streams
• funding for non-profits problematic
Richmond Cooperative superior because worker-cooperatives create assets and wealth in
community, increase revenue streams for worker-owners, city, state, and non-profit hosts
[edit]Casino Capitalism
• casinos create more social costs than create economic benefits
• casinos are elite institutions that do not benefit the majority of society
• casinos do not create any economic value, just profits for owners and losses for
gamblers
Richmond Cooperative superior because it creates real economic growth of tangibly
beneficial products and services, does not have a negative effect or create greater social
costs than benefits.
[edit]Corporate Services Gentrification
• gentrification of central Richmond pushes long-time residents out
• services jobs are low-pay, unskilled and alienating
• services jobs do not pay enough to create wealth in community
Richmond Cooperative superior because it creates community-held assets in under-served
communities. Creates service worker-cooperatives that can fulfill these roles but with greater
economic stability
[edit]Conclusion
[edit]Restate Thesis
By creating a network of worker-cooperative businesses in the Richmond area, community
wealth, health and democracy can be generated.
[edit]Clincher
• Challenge readers to take action

The people of Richmond chose via political representation a green, cooperative, democratic
economic future. Through participation, research and websites Nicholas Roberts is helping
people help themselves in the Richmond, CA area. This can be done through the
development of a place-based, localized economy that is based on a relatively democratic
model of cooperative networks servicing local anchor institutions, residents and businesses.
As the inter-cooperation and richness of the local economy grows, problems such as poverty,
pollution and poor participation will be solved as employee-owners of the Richmond
Cooperative build wealth assets as well as jobs. There is an opportunity for the existing
institutions in Richmond to re-align towards worker-cooperative network development. By
doing this, a platform for economic democracy can be built rapidly in the Richmond, CA area.
[edit]Sources
[edit]Cooperative Complexes
Cooperative complexes are industrial networks of inter-cooperation
• Mondragon Cooperative Corporation and the Mondragon Experience

• Evergreen Cooperative
• Mandela Marketplace
• Arizmendi Cooperative Association
• EdVisions Cooperative
[edit]Industrial Symbiosis
• IndustrialSymbiosis.dk
• Industrial Symbiosis wiki
• Cradle-to-Cradle vs. Source-to-Source
[edit]Grassroots Sustainability
• Transition Towns Totnes
• Democracy Schools
• Permaculture
• Inalienable Rights of Nature

[edit]Economic Democracy
Economic Democracy : Sustainable Economic Democracy: Worker Cooperatives for the 21st
Century from Colab MIT "explores how worker cooperatives, when configured in a network,
can promote progressive, place-based, endogenous economic growth. Here, we present two
successful cooperative network models, Mondragon and Evergreen, and then offer a general
framework for how to grow a cooperative network in any city. Sustainable Economic
Democracy: Worker Cooperatives for the 21st Century
[edit]Related
• Civic media
• Social network analysis
• Industrial Ecology and Industrial Symbiosis
• Business Process Re-engineering
• Worker-Cooperative Pattern Language
[edit]References
• http://www.organiclea.org.uk/about/ethics/co-operative/
• http://www.scribd.com/doc/44604825/Advancing-Social-Enterprise-Education-The-
Place-of-Employee-Owned-Businesses-and-Cooperatives-in-the-Social-Enterprise-
Movement
• http://isie2011.berkeley.edu/committees_technical.html
• http://www.oeockent.org/index.php/library/doc/417/raw
• http://www.community-wealth.org/_pdfs/news/recent-articles/04-09/article-oeoc.pdf
• http://www.unep.fr/scp/publications/details.asp?id=DTI/1235/PA
• http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/engineering-systems-division/esd-123j-systems-
perspectives-on-industrial-ecology-spring-2006/readings/
• http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/engineering-systems-division/esd-123j-systems-
perspectives-on-industrial-ecology-spring-2006/lecture-notes/
• http://www.unepie.org/scp/
• http://ie.tudelft.nl/ie/index.php/KnockOutCriteria
• Cleveland Goes to Mondragon
• The Urban Biofilter
• 2009 Air Monitoring Network Report
• Richmond USGS
• Richmond City Neighborhoods

• Harnessing Crowds: Mapping the Genome of Collective Intelligence
• [http://www2.innocentive.com/files/node/casestudy/total-economic-impacttm-
innocentives-enterprise-solution-challenges-innocentivework-and-onramp.pdf The Total
Economic Impact™ Of
InnoCentive’s Enterprise Solution]
• Poverty levels in Richmond worsen in 2009, Richmond Confidential

• Sociotechnical Systems or Sociotechnical systems (STS) in organizational
development is an approach to complex organizational work design that recognizes the
interaction between people and technology in workplaces.
• Machine dreams: economics becomes a cyborg science By Philip Mirowski
• A Pattern Language
• Acquiring genomes: a theory of the origins of species By Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan
• Rival views of market society and other recent essays By Albert O. Hirschman
• Helping People Help Themselves: From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of
Development Assistance
• We build the road as we travel
• Making Mondragón: the growth and dynamics of the worker cooperative complex
• Blooming Together or Wilting Alone? Network Externalities and the Mondragon and La
Lega Cooperative Networks
• Network Externalities and Cooperative Networks: A Comparative Case Study of
Mondragón and La Lega with Implications for Developing and Transitional Countries
• Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
• Making a place for community: local democracy in a global era
• America beyond capitalism: reclaiming our wealth, our liberty, and our democracy, Gar
Alperovitz
• Lynn Margulis
• 12 leverage points
• La Lega: The Making of a Successful Network of Co-operatives
• John Curl, For All The People
• Ostrom World Bank, Climate, game-theory, institutional design
• Building a Platform for Economic Democracy, Nicholas G. Iuviene, MIT masters thesis
• Sustainable Economic Democracy: Worker Cooperatives for the 21st Century from
Colab MIT
• Mondragon-Richmond Memorandum of Understanding
• Mondragon-United Steelworkers Memorandum of Understanding

• Abolish Human Rentals
• Green Collar Jobs
• Green Collar Jobs in Berkeley

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Richmond Cooperative Proposal Essay Outline

The Richmond Cooperative Experience: How to make a sustainability worker cooperative

or Richmond Cooperative Corporation: Making the Richmond Cooperative Experience

or Title: Richmond Cooperative Experience: Making the Richmond Cooperative Corporation

• Essay Draft: ESSAY: Richmond Cooperative Experience

Cooperative development goes through recognizable stages; idea, education, research,

The Richmond Cooperative Proposal is a long-term, community-led development program to

Do you want Chevron Corporation Experience or Richmond Cooperative Experience? A

poverty, pollution and dispossession transition to equity, environment and entrepreneurship in

Making a sustainable worker-cooperative network in Richmond, CA for wealth, health and

1. Cooperative's don't scale.

[edit]Your Argument/Proposed Solution

By participating in an education and organizing phase, facilitating start-up by publishing

• MIT CoLab Coop Framework

[edit]Summarizing 2-3 Services

This infrastructure of pollution that is literally built into neighborhoods—neighborhoods where

West County Toxics Coalition and the Chevron

2006-2008 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimates - Data Profile Highlights

94804 US Census Demographics

explain how your proposal addresses the counter-arguments

• Cooperative's don't scale: Mondragon Cooperative Corporation 7th largest

• Iron Triangle, aka Central Richmond, Google map

Explain how will you obtain access. Policy? Cost

Free online and via ad hoc volunteer participation

[edit]How Many? Criteria?

[edit]How will you recruit them ?

[edit]What will they do?

• learn more about maps

Research Areas: worker-cooperatives, worker-cooperative networks, inter-cooperation,

democracy, commons and markets, common-pooled resources, civic media, business

Elements: Tools, User Stories, User Groups, User-Generated Content, Open-Innovation

transportation and supplies

• travel to Richmond via car and BART

[edit]Break down the costs

• car 1hour round trip, $5 petrol

• mapping: Managing News, GeoServer, Upashid, MapInfo

• explain why your proposal is the best compared to other options

• Challenge readers to take action

• Mondragon Cooperative Corporation and the Mondragon Experience

• Inalienable Rights of Nature

• Richmond City Neighborhoods

• Poverty levels in Richmond worsen in 2009, Richmond Confidential

• Mondragon-United Steelworkers Memorandum of Understanding

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