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GREENSAW Blog: January 2011
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Op-Ed: By Jim Steiker, the oldest young employee ownership lawyer in America. Why did most of these worker cooperatives fail, or, at least, why aren't they around any more? Finally, why do I do primarily ESOPs now, rather than worker-cooperatives, despite the "Enron" example? Posted by Brendan Jones @ 6:20 AM. Wednesday, January 12, 2011. I guess it would be a red flag if Beeg, among others, didnâ t immediately take issue with the pragmatism of an employee-owned co-op. Su...
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GREENSAW Blog: Learning to Fly the Co-op
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Friday, January 7, 2011. Learning to Fly the Co-op. To call ourselves trailblazers would be an overstatement. Perhaps trailblazers in the city of Philadelphia, but hell, we in the 215 havenâ t even grasped the concept that citizens donâ t pay taxes in order to be harassed daily by a parking authority. Although, with folks like Karen Randall at the Department of Commerce in Philly these things might change (a quick shout-out to her and the remarkable and awesome work she does). C, I do believe. So we have...
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Thursday, September 9, 2010. Hunting Bass in the Modern Age. I first noticed the bass on an afternoon walk around the lake. He made his rounds, carving a semicircle around the dock, the lowering sun catching the grey band along his side. A scar the color of pigâ s skin dappled his lower lip, marking his progress through the lakescape of rocks, sticks, and blackened rhododendron leaves. Â Is that hook tied off properly? Â I asked him, as he dropped his weighted line to the lake bottom. After problems in h...
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GREENSAW Blog: Op-Ed: By Jim Steiker, the oldest young employee ownership lawyer in America
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Op-Ed: By Jim Steiker, the oldest young employee ownership lawyer in America. Why did most of these worker cooperatives fail, or, at least, why aren't they around any more? Finally, why do I do primarily ESOPs now, rather than worker-cooperatives, despite the "Enron" example? Posted by Brendan Jones @ 6:20 AM. A blog addressing the importance of re-using material, and building with existing structures. A strong emphasis on architectural salvage, as well as the people that...
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GREENSAW Blog: Second-guessing the co-op
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011. I guess it would be a red flag if Beeg, among others, didnâ t immediately take issue with the pragmatism of an employee-owned co-op. Sure, you can pull it off in the talcum-white bell jar of Marthaâ s Vineyard, the mountains of New Hampshire, the hills of San Francisco. But Philly? Well, we all saw how that worked with Enron. In any case he keeps an eye on the ticks and chiggers crawling in the fur of the dirty underbelly of any creature we wake up. One of his remarkable ...
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GREENSAW Blog: January 2010
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Thursday, January 7, 2010. Scrolling through old Greensaw pics. I kept coming across photos that made me chuckle. Below a collection of pics with cutlines describing what in the heck's going on (whenever I know). Dave looks time-machined from the seventies, while Niko still hasn't changed out of his paintball outfit. In any case we had a good dinner of trout, catfish, and pickerel. And while the guys went fishing, the female took her dog and went out for bigger game. Can't help but think of Iwo Jima with...
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GREENSAW Blog: Walking the dog
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Friday, February 25, 2011. An upturned Jack-o-Lantern, loose cobblestones, a yellowing Christmas tree. The remnants of a fire-escape, doors and windows sheet-metaled or plyed over, a blue tarp rising and falling with the wind. And the dog oh the dog, taking stock of this bombed out world. But what about that those transoms? The casement windows with the venetian glass? The oxidized copper on the ground floor? Peer up into the second floor - those joists holding up the third? The dog takes stock of it all.
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GREENSAW Blog: Biodiesel
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010. The poetic justice is almost too much. Steve Richter, who culls used fry oil from falafel houses and Japanese restaurants in Philadelphia and New Jersey (tip: Japanese restaurants end with cleaner oil than fry joints start with), sails oil tankers for a living. Is it the equivalent to a carbon offset? Say a conscience offset? I'm sure Steve would have a thoughtful answer to this, but I'm not going to call and put him on the spot. At a recently bachelor party I ran into a guy ...
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GREENSAW Blog: Friday Night Green Fights
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Friday, June 25, 2010. Friday Night Green Fights. So our first Friday Night Green Fights was pretty informal, the product of a winter's worth of frustration. Like a bunch of raccoons stuck inside an upright piano we were, ready to flex our wings and - well, you get the picture. We had some swingin to get out. It saved us money on company therapy. We wore 16-ounce gloves, big balloons, just enough to tap the riser of blood in the nose. The fightcard, drawn up on the spot, was:. At first one corner of the ...
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GREENSAW Blog: October 2008
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Monday, October 6, 2008. JP Morgan's Walnut Bookshelves. I dare you sonofabitch, I dare you to take me apart.". JP hated having his picture taken. A photograph of the old rhino has him looking back at the camera, winding up at the paparazzi. So we went to work. Off came the walnut ply backs, out came the stiles and rails. Tim and Dave, who are leading the charge on the shelves, made a box to keep their saw straight, and minimize the kerf. And alas it worked. Usually, when you take furniture apart, it los...