Cooperatives

In an economic sense, a cooperative is a business controlled by those it affects (informally, it's stake holders). A worker cooperative is a business owned by its workers; a housing cooperative is a house owned by its residence; a retail cooperative can be worker cooperative, or a business owned by its customers, or a combination. Cooperatives eliminate control of an organisation by those who are only interested in a profit. Socially, a cooperative usually involves cooperation in the traditional sense, and a vibrant, do-it-yourself attitude towards pitching in and getting the job done.

Rochester has several cooperatives of various kinds:

• Ant Hill Cooperative — "not only a communal living environment for its residents, but a focal point of the community", located on South Plymouth Avenue
  

• Minowan Environmental Coop (aka EcoHouse) — current/former UofR students with a focus on sustainable living
  

• South Ave Motel — at South and Elmwood
  

further afield

• Nickel City Co-op (In Buffalo)

• Bread and Roses (In Syracuse)
  

• Oswego Punk House
  

• Abundance Cooperative Market / Genesee Co-op Natural Foodstore

• Genesee Valley Community Supported Agriculture
  

• Greater Rochester Urban Bounty (GRUB)
  

See Also

• Community Supported Agriculture

• Rochester District Heating Co-op — a downtown steam co-op!
  

• New York State Energy Cooperative

• Genesee Center for the Arts and Education (Community Darkroom)

• Genesee Co-op Federal Credit Union
  

• see also Credit Unions

• Clear Eye Co-op — no longer existant (?)
  

• the old Genesee Co-op

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2005-10-30 09:47:52   Tell me more about this 'hotel' thing! —FarMcKon

2005-10-30 18:59:12   Well, it's a sort of co-op esque house at South and Elmwood. They seem really interested in Ant Hill, and they are very cool themselves. —TobinFricke