Greenbelt Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Wellington, Texas.
A utility cooperative is a type of cooperative that is tasked with the delivery of a public utility such as electricity, water or telecommunications to its members. Profits are either reinvested for infrastructure or distributed to members in the form of "patronage" or "capital credits", which are dividends paid on a member's investment in the cooperative.
Wellington is a city and county seat of Collingsworth County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,189 at the 2010 census.
The Cooperative was organized in 1938.
The Cooperative serves portions of nine counties in the state of Texas, all located in the Texas Panhandle, in a territory generally surrounding Wellington.
Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Geographically located in the South Central region of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, while the Gulf of Mexico is to the southeast.
The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma to the north and east. The Handbook of Texas defines the southern border of Swisher County as the southern boundary of the Texas Panhandle region.
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Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, and a suburb of Washington, D.C.. Greenbelt is notable for being the first and the largest of the three experimental and controversial New Deal Greenbelt Towns, planned and built by the Federal government of the United States. The cooperative community was conceived in 1935, by Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell, who was perceived by some of his contemporaries as having held a collectivist ideology and was utilized as a source of opposition to the Greenbelt Towns project throughout its short duration. The project came into legal existence in the spring of 1935. On April 8, 1935, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. Under the authority granted to him from this legislation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order, on May 1, 1935, establishing the United States Resettlement Administration (RA/RRA).
Green belt or greenbelt is an area of protected open space around an urban area.
HILCO Electric Cooperative is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Itasca, Texas, United States, with a district office in Whitney, Texas and a district office in Midlothian, Texas.
Scan Furniture was a retailer of modern Scandinavian furniture that operated six stores in the metropolitan Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area.
Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative is an electric utility cooperative headquartered in Bastrop, Texas. Founded in 1939, Bluebonnet is one of Texas’ oldest electric cooperatives.
Brazos Electric Power Cooperative is an electrical generation and transmission cooperative based in Waco, Texas. Founded in 1941, it was the first cooperative in Texas established for the purpose of generating and supplying electricity, and is currently the largest in Texas.
Central Texas Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a rural utility cooperative headquartered in Fredericksburg, Texas, with suboffices in Kingsland, Texas; Llano, Texas; and Mason, Texas.
Cooke County Electric Cooperative Association is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Muenster, Texas.
Pedernales Electric Cooperative is a not-for-profit rural electric distribution, utility cooperative headquartered in Johnson City, Texas. The cooperative was organized in 1938.
Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative, Inc. is a non-profit rural electric utility cooperative headquartered in Hereford, Texas. The cooperative was organized in 1936 and is a member of the Golden Spread Electric Cooperative. The cooperative is named for the county where it was founded, which is in turn named for Erastus "Deaf" Smith, a partially deaf scout and soldier who served in the Texas Revolution.
The Barton Creek Greenbelt located in Austin, Texas is managed by the City of Austin's Park and Recreation Department. The Greenbelt is a 7.25-mile (11.67 km) stretch of public land that begins at Zilker Park and stretches South/Southwest to the final section commonly referred to as "The Hill of Life" which ends in the Woods of Westlake subdivision. The Barton Creek Greenbelt consists of three areas: the Lower Greenbelt, the Upper Greenbelt, and the Barton Creek Wilderness Park and is characterized by large limestone cliffs, dense foliage, and shallow bodies of water.
The Greenbelt News Review was established in 1937, as a volunteer cooperative shortly after settlement of Greenbelt, Maryland, and was originally named the Greenbelt Cooperator. It has been published without interruption every week since its founding, and is distributed free by a network of carriers to all city residents.
Texas Co-op Power magazine is the largest circulation monthly magazine in Texas. It goes to more than 1 million homes and businesses and is read by approximately 3 million people. The BPA audited statement for June 2009 put circulation at 1,188,965.
The history of cooperatives in the United States extends to pre-independence times. With the exception of credit unions and mutual banking institutions, most cooperatives have held a comparatively light footprint on the economic history of the United States in comparison to the economies of Europe.
Greenbelt Cooperative Publishing Association, Inc. v. Bresler, 398 U.S. 6 (1970), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that using the word "blackmail" in a newspaper article "was no more than rhetorical hyperbole" and that finding such usage as libel "would subvert the most fundamental meaning of a free press" guaranteed by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. The ruling also touched on the plaintiff's status as a public figure.