| | | POC12-152 | | The non-profit industrial complex, cooperatives, and how to include your friends in the (food) revolution Speakers: Yoni Landau, Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive (CoFED) The session presents an overview of the cooperative business model with a variety of examples, and helps participants think of ways to directly create a more cooperative economy. Also discussed is the role of non-profits and the tax shelters that support them in creating value for our communities. Some attention is given to unique food movement organizing in the state around a non-GMO ballot initiative as a case study. The session is participatory with small group exercises and facilitated discussion from the audience. Audio CDs: 1 | | Audio CD | | $10.00 | | $10.00 | |
| | | POC12-162 | | Alternative workplace models – saving money, energy, and promoting creativity and collaboration Speakers: Matthew Bauer, BetterWorld Telecom; (Invited) Ian Gover, Better Workplace Roughly 3% of the U.S. workforce telecommutes a majority of the time today, if that number was 50% of those who can, we would cut our carbon emissions in ½, while saving 453 million barrels of oil, reduce 2.1 billion hours wasted in traffic. This session explores the many ways that companies and individuals can bring themselves up to speed with the knowledge worker/broadband economy wave, especially here in the uber connected Bay Area. | | MP3 | | $7.00 | | $7.00 | |
