A Global Permaculture Workers Cooperative

An outline of the feasibility needs the following

• Write mission statement
• write business plan outline based on business activities that could grow into separate cooperative units
• discuss how global workers cooperative could work
• use examples or prototypes
  
• use similar existing business as reference
• discuss the role of the website, the open planning, radical transparency
• discuss the permaculture worker problem
• discuss the cooperative costs
• discuss start-up procedure including forms, costs, legal, financial etc 

California Cooperative Corporation - Bay Area Workers Cooperative

An outline of the feasibility;

• Write mission statement
• write business plan outline based on business activities that could grow into separate cooperative units

• Permaculture TV - open video creative commons archive using Plumi and Red5, Livestream channel, YouTube profile, Blip.TV and syndication. Create a web TV show and an channel for display of other video.
  
• OpenCore open planning website - incubate permaculture cooperative projects online
• Consulting business along Redmonk lines
  
• Education business along Free School and democratic school movement, as a key part of cooperative education
• permaculture hostel network development
• Gaia Permaculture knowledge base - enlightenment encyclopedia for organic geo engineering
• urban decentralised farming workers cooperative - long-running permablitz, worker-owned MyFarmSF
  

• discuss how global workers cooperative could work
• use examples or prototypes
  
• use similar existing business as reference
• Redmonk
• MyFarmSF
• countless previous examples of urban farming
• Mondragon
  
• discuss the role of the website, the open planning, radical transparency
• discuss the permaculture worker problem
• discuss the cooperative costs
• discuss start-up procedure including forms, costs, legal, financial etc
• discuss the role of education in the cooperative and external - Mondragon, Redmonk etc
• discuss the free school movement vs the pyramid selling scheme of permaculture and sustainability
  
• list potential research cooperatives, targets etc... who do I talk to ? 
• Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives
• Design Action Collective
• Mandella Food Cooperative (Oakland)
• Berkeley Student Cooperative
• Arizmendi Cooperative Association
• Brass Tacks
•  Chris Schein
• Participatory Credit Union
• Permaculture Credit Union
• Grass Roots Funding
• Cooperation Works!
• Students of Cooperation
• Bay Area Permaculture groups
• Transition groups
  

New York Cooperatives

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