Empowering Economics: How Worker-Owned Cooperatives and TimeBanks Re-Value Labor and Community
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Hour Exchange Portland
May 23, 2012, 2:48:50 PM5/23/12
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USM Sociology Professor Ed Collom
will be speaking at Local Sprouts Café on Thursday, May 31st at 2pm on
“Empowering Economics: How Worker-Owned Cooperatives and TimeBanks
Re-Value Labor and Community.” Other speakers include Jonah Fertig and
Heather Blersch of Local Spro...uts Cooperative, and Orion Breen of Hour
Exchange Portland. The event is being presented by the University of
Southern Maine Student Sociology Association.
Ed Collom’s research focuses on community currency (an alternative to the mainstream economy), home schooling (an alternative to the public education system), and workplace democracy (an alternative to bureaucratic control structures). A book by Ed Collom with Judy Lasker of Lehigh and Corinne Kyriacou of Hofstra entitled Equal Time, Equal Value: Community Currencies and Time Banking in the USA will be published this August through Ashgate Publishing. http://www.usm.maine.edu/sociology/ed-collom
Hour Exchange Portland creates an alternative local economy of neighbors helping neighbors. Neighbors exchange service cash-free and tax-free based on the currency of time, where everyone’s time is equal no matter what the service being provided. Over the years Hour Exchange Portland members have exchanged over 150,000 hours of community service and provided over 25,000 hours of free health care. Anyone interested in finding out more or joining Hour Exchange Portland can visit their website www.HourExchangePortland.org
Local Sprouts Cooperative is worker-owned cooperative that provides local and organic food and holistic learning through cooking food for our community. They have a Cafe on Congress St, provide local and organic catering and learning programs in collaboration with non-profits and schools in Portland. www.localsproutscooperative.com
The United Nations has declared 2012 International Year of Cooperatives.
WHO: University of Southern Maine Sociology Professor Ed Collom, Jonah Fertig and Heather Blersch of Local Sprouts Cooperative, Orion Breen of Hour Exchange Portland, and USM’s Student Sociology Association
WHAT: Empowering Economics: How Worker-Owned Cooperatives and TimeBanks Re-Value Labor and Community
WHERE: Local Sprouts Café, 649 Congress Street, Portland, ME
WHEN: May 31st at 2pm
For more info contact hourexchangeportland@gmail.com of call 207-619-4437.
http://www.facebook.com/events/348463738554653/
Also mentioned in this Portland Daily Sun article: http://portlanddailysun.me/index.php/opinion/columns/6881-maine-needs-a-healthy-head-start-or-we-will-fall-behind
Ed Collom’s research focuses on community currency (an alternative to the mainstream economy), home schooling (an alternative to the public education system), and workplace democracy (an alternative to bureaucratic control structures). A book by Ed Collom with Judy Lasker of Lehigh and Corinne Kyriacou of Hofstra entitled Equal Time, Equal Value: Community Currencies and Time Banking in the USA will be published this August through Ashgate Publishing. http://www.usm.maine.edu/sociology/ed-collom
Hour Exchange Portland creates an alternative local economy of neighbors helping neighbors. Neighbors exchange service cash-free and tax-free based on the currency of time, where everyone’s time is equal no matter what the service being provided. Over the years Hour Exchange Portland members have exchanged over 150,000 hours of community service and provided over 25,000 hours of free health care. Anyone interested in finding out more or joining Hour Exchange Portland can visit their website www.HourExchangePortland.org
Local Sprouts Cooperative is worker-owned cooperative that provides local and organic food and holistic learning through cooking food for our community. They have a Cafe on Congress St, provide local and organic catering and learning programs in collaboration with non-profits and schools in Portland. www.localsproutscooperative.com
The United Nations has declared 2012 International Year of Cooperatives.
WHO: University of Southern Maine Sociology Professor Ed Collom, Jonah Fertig and Heather Blersch of Local Sprouts Cooperative, Orion Breen of Hour Exchange Portland, and USM’s Student Sociology Association
WHAT: Empowering Economics: How Worker-Owned Cooperatives and TimeBanks Re-Value Labor and Community
WHERE: Local Sprouts Café, 649 Congress Street, Portland, ME
WHEN: May 31st at 2pm
For more info contact hourexchangeportland@gmail.com of call 207-619-4437.
http://www.facebook.com/events/348463738554653/
Also mentioned in this Portland Daily Sun article: http://portlanddailysun.me/index.php/opinion/columns/6881-maine-needs-a-healthy-head-start-or-we-will-fall-behind
Hour Exchange Portland
Jun 5, 2012, 9:17:17 PM6/5/12
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Nice video from the Empowering Economics talk with Orion Breen of Hour Exchange Portland: http://youtu.be/HMujxcRkWCg
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