Clafoutis

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Project overview

• Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA)
• Wikipedia Project: Urban Economic Development (Fall 2010)
• Topic: Evergreen Cooperatives as a case study in green jobs as urban economic development for sustainable poverty alleviation.

Group Members

• Clafoutis
• FruitForAll
• Boilerinbtown
• btearney
• zlotto
• sima1808
• JaffaJunkie

Wikipedia Pages to Edit (tentative list)

Existing Pages

• Evergreen Cooperatives

Possible Secondary Pages

• Import Substitution
• Cleveland Foundation
• Workforce Development

Working Bibliography

Academic articles on broad concepts

• Allen J.H., Potiowsky T. Portland's green building cluster: Economic trends and impacts (2008) Economic Development Quarterly, 22 (4), pp. 303-315. http://edq.sagepub.com/content/22/4/303

• Steven Cobb and David Weinberg. The Importance of Import Substitution in Regional Economic Impact Analysis: Empirical Estimates from Two Cincinnati Area Events Economic Development Quarterly 1993 7: 282 http://edq.sagepub.com/content/7/3/282

• Joseph Persky, David Ranney and Wim Wiewel. Import Substitution and Local Economic Development. Economic Development Quarterly 1993 7: 18. http://edq.sagepub.com/content/7/1/18

• Corey Rosen. Employee Ownership: Promises, Performance, and Prospects. Economic Development Quarterly 1989 3: 258 http://edq.sagepub.com/content/3/3/258

• Jon L. Pierce and Loren Rodgers. The Psychology of Ownership and Worker-Owner Productivity. Group & Organization Management 2004 29: 588. http://gom.sagepub.com/content/29/5/588

• Jed Kolko, David Neumark. Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks? Journal of Urban Economics 67 (2010) 103–115

• Hansmann, Henry. The Ownership of Enterprise (1996).

Green Jobs

• Warren Deborah B., and Steve Dubb. Growing a Green Economy for All: from Green Jobs to Green Ownership (June 2010). The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland. http://www.community-wealth.org/_pdfs/news/recent-articles/07-10/report-warren-dubb.pdf

Evergreen Cooperative Laundry

• Breckenridge T. (October 20, 2009). Evergreen Cooperative Laundry aims to help struggling neighborhoods around Cleveland's University Circle, Cleveland.com, retrieved from : http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/10/evergreen_cooperative_laundry.html

• Yates J. Can "Anchor Institutions" Help Revitalize Declining Neighborhoods by Buying from Local Cooperatives?, Grassroots Economic Organizing, Retrieved from: http://www.geonewsletter.org/node/402 (This article originially appeared in OWNERS AT WORK, the magazine of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Volume XXI No. 1 Summer 2009.)

• Tozzi J. (February 12, 2010). Buying local on a large scale, Bloomberg Businessweek; retrieved from http://www.businessweek.com/print/smallbiz/content/feb2010/sb20100212_832582.htm

• The Cleveland Foundation , Greater University Circle http://www.clevelandfoundation.org/VitalIssues/NeighborhoodsAndHousing/GreaterUniversityCircle/

• Buffa A. (April 15, 2010). Evergreen Cooperatives Forge an Innovative Path toward High-Quality Green Jobs, Apollo News Service; retrieved from http://apolloalliance.org/green-collar-jobs/evergreen-cooperatives-forge-an-innovative-path-toward-high-quality-green-jobs/

• Grassroots Economic Organizing. Evergreen Cooperative Laundry Manager:”Owning Your Own Job is a Beautiful Thing, retrieved from http://www.geonewsletter.org/node/484

• Grahl C. Clean and Green, Builders Exchange Magazine, vol.8, issue 12, retrieved from http://www.bxmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=1039

• Evergreen Cooperative Laundry, http://www.evergreencoop.com/Laundry/Services.html

Ohio Cooperative Solar

• Evergreen Cooperatives Introductory Video. (n.d.). Retrieved October 23, 2010, from http://www.blip.tv/file/2749165

• Ohio Senate, 127th General Assembly. (n.d.). Amended Substitute Senate Bill Number 221. Retrieved October 23, 2010, from http://archives.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText127/127_SB_221_EN_N.pdf

• What is OCS? (n.d.). Retrieved October 23, 2010, from Ohio Cooperative Solar: http://www.evergreencoop.com/OhioSolar/index.html

• Alperovitz, G., Williamson, T., & Howard, T. (2010, February 11). The Cleveland Model. Retrieved November 1, 2010, from www.thenation.com: http://www.thenation.com/article/cleveland-model

Green City Growers Cooperative

• Alperovitz, G., Williamson, T., & Howard, T. (2010, February 11). The Cleveland Model. Retrieved November 1, 2010, from www.thenation.com: http://www.thenation.com/article/cleveland-model

• Evergreen Cooperatives Introductory Video. (n.d.). Retrieved October 23, 2010, from http://www.blip.tv/file/2749165

• Philpott, T. (2010, February 22). Cleveland, worker-owned co-ops, and new ideas for a flailing economy. Retrieved November 1, 2010, from www.grist.org: http://www.grist.org/article/2010-02-22-cleveland-cooperative-green/

• Team, G. C. (2010). Green City Growers Cooperative. Retrieved November 1, 2010, from Evergreen Cooperatives: http://www.evergreencoop.com/GreenCity/greencity.html

Mondragón Information

• Morrison, R. (1991). We Build the Road as We Travel. New Society Publishers. Philadelphia, PA.

Mentor?

Hi -- I am one of the Wikipedia editors who has volunteered to work with students in the current semester and help them with the articles they work on -- we're called mentors. There's a mentor page here where you can look at the list of available people who can mentor -- if you are interested, let me know, or if you like the look of one of the other mentors, click on the "choose as mentor" button and leave them a message. Either way, I'll be glad to help -- you can leave me a message on my talk page if you have any questions about Wikipedia or about the article you're working on. Mike Christie (talk) 21:49, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Welcome!

Say hello somewhere below! Clafoutis (talk) 23:41, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Got your note

I'll be glad to help. I'm at work and can't post much, or usually at all, between about 8:30 and 6:00 eastern US time, but should be able to help outside those hours. Let me know what I can do -- reviewing, helping with technical questions, talking about article structure, or whatever you need. I look forward to working with you. Mike Christie (talk) 13:10, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

Evergreen Cooperatives

I've started looking at the article and should be able to go through it today, but it will be a bit fragmented as I have a couple of other things to do this afternoon. Thanks for the note to let me know about it! Mike Christie (talk) 17:54, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

OK. I've made a few notes at the talk page; I'll probably finish up the section I'm on and wait till you've had a chance to look at my comments. Mike Christie (talk) 22:52, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Done with another pass

I've made another pass through and left some more notes after your responses. I'll wait to go through the rest of the article till you respond on those. There were two or three places where you said you'd added a citation but I couldn't see the relevant information in the source you cited, so I'm wondering if I'm not looking where you mean me to look, or if there's some mixup in the cites. Anyway, some of the problems were fixed, but I do have a couple more questions. I'll watch the page so you can post there or at my talk page if you want to ask about any of my notes. Thanks -- Mike Christie (talk – library) 02:26, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Thank you

Hi Clafoutis,

I was so happy and surprised to discover today how much has been added to the Evergreen Cooperatives article I created such a short time ago. Creating it was a bit of an ordeal, in fact—my original attempt was deleted for apparently violating copyright policy, after which I had to argue with admins to be able to recreate it. I'm no expert on Evergreen but thought it was a crime that there wasn't already an article on it. I'm curious what got you interested enough to put that much work into the article. I gather from your talk page that you're doing this as part of an assignment, is that right? What school/class assigns students to update wikipedia articles on worker co-ops? I would especially like to know why you chose this article, and whether my creating it mattered in that decision. Would you just have created yourself it if it hadn't existed yet, or did you find it somehow and then decide to make it better? Either way, thanks for putting all that work in!

Peace, GreatBigCircles (talk) 10:34, 14 December 2010 (UTC)