Great little video about the benefits of a cooperative

As some of you may be aware, 2012 has been designated the International Year of Cooperatives by the United Nations, and as a result there is a huge amount of work going on in the cooperative movement to celebrate this and promote the benefits of the cooperative model. The global economic crisis shows no signs of abating, so there has never been a better time for an economic model that places people and community to the fore to gain some attention.

Of course the Green Valley Grocer is a cooperative, democratically owned and controlled by its members, and we'll be doing our bit over the coming year to raise awareness of cooperatives. As a start to that here's a great little video clip you might want to watch that was made by the Canadian Cooperative Association. It's a tad overlong to my mind, at 2 minutes, but nonetheless does a great job at communicating osme highly relevant messages.