http://cfa.media.mit.edu/blog/31 en http://cfa.media.mit.edu/content/stories-from-squinto <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIre_Y4wvZk">Martha's really excited to be one of Little Squinto's newest shareholders!</a></p> http://cfa.media.mit.edu/content/stories-from-squinto#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:10:10 +0000 ckaman@mit.edu 22 at http://cfa.media.mit.edu http://cfa.media.mit.edu/content/press-release-people-powered-mining-little-squinto-making-workers-owners <p>January 23,2009</p> <p>The Rio Squinto Corporation is proud to announce the formation of a subsidiary company that is revolutionizing the mining business. Little Squinto, LLP makes workers co-partners in the mining business.</p> <p>By offering its employees shares in the company, workers can help continue developing Institutistan into a shining example of worker-driven industries in the 21st Century.</p> <p>Now Little Squinto and the workers can develop Institutistan's resources together, and continue to expand into region's that are ripe for mining.</p> <p>This shareholder model promotes the democratic values that we at Rio Squinto cherish so deeply. After all, by making our workers co-owners of Little Squinto, giving them greater voice in helping us strengthen communities, and continue working to preserve the environment while making them active partners in developing our natural resources. </p> <p>Little Squinto's triple bottom line is: to serve the best intrest of its shareholders through profit maximization, to develop and use new technologies that advance the mining industry, and to preserve and defend the environment.</p> <p>Little Squinto already has a number of worker-shareholders but is accepting applications.</p> http://cfa.media.mit.edu/content/press-release-people-powered-mining-little-squinto-making-workers-owners#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:12:56 +0000 ckaman@mit.edu 20 at http://cfa.media.mit.edu