Nourishing Cities
The project, Coop Academy, is an intensive 16 week training and support program that will help us develop Nourishing Cities, a worker-owned green businesses.
Leader
Philip Botwinick
Location
83-05 98th St Woodhaven, NY 11421
About the project
Nourishing Cities will participate in the 16 week coop academy, an education experience that will provide us with the necessary tools to embark on creating, opening and operating a worker cooperative that focuses on installing edible landscapes in the borough of Queens.
The Steps
The steps we'll take to complete the project will be multi tiered consisting of weekly classes offered by WIBO, monthly classes where we will be exposed to issues unique to both worker coops and greeen businesses, deliverables that have to be met by the individuals on the team as well as larger deliverables the team needs to complete, and finally weekly meetings where the team learns how well they work and fit together to keep to the mission of the business and worker coops.
Why we‘re doing it
We're doing this because we believe that worker coops offer a more sustainable alternative to current business model. We believe strongly that in order for a business to be successful in a new economic paradigm the workers and labor must earn a fair salary, have rights and responsibilities in the running of the business and most important of all the business must function in a way that is sustainable and not extracting more from the planet than it can replenish during our individual lifespans.