"Omar's flyer was the turning point," exclaimed Gloria Walker, recalling the 2004 flyer posted by Omar Freilla, the executive director of Green Worker Cooperatives.
One man's trash is another's treasure — a timely adage for reuse advocate Omar Freilla, executive director of Green Worker Cooperatives in the South Bronx.
In 1997, Tom Clossey and Shawn Berry took over a furniture shop in San Francisco's Bayview District and started down the road to economic self-sufficiency.
