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Teaching Kids: Food Education in America If you're reading this during store hours, chances are that someone at your co-op is teaching a kid about food right now. Truth be told, it's actually more difficult to avoid teaching kids about... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Food Movies Worth Watching You and many of your co-op's members and customers have perhaps seen Food, Inc., King Corn, The Future of Food, and Supersize Me. More than any other movies released in the past decade, these... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Eat Local, America! From Maine to Florida and Bozeman to Chico, approximately 40 co-ops around the country took part in the 2010 Eat Local, America! campaign to celebrate local food and local producers. Last year... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Making Your Case Have you had a good idea that you let percolate for a while, shaping and reshaping it in your mind? Then you run it by a few workmates, until you believe it is solid and are ready to bring to your... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Defending Organic Against the GE Alfalfa Threat Members of the sustainable food movement are furious and, frankly, we have a right to be. Last month's decision by the USDA to fully deregulate genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa isn't just a... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Retail Organic Certification Based on the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, the National Organic Program (NOP) was put into effect in October 2002. As rules go, the organic rule, fondly known as Title 7 Part 205, is... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Supporting the Bowers Fund and Co-op Emergency Fund Thanks to food co-ops for your support of the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) Howard Bowers Fund in 2010! Education and training are essential for thriving co-ops, and the Bowers... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Keeping Our Principles
Dear Editor, I was extremely relieved to see a follow-up article, "‘Flexible or Flawed' Co-op Laws," in the January issue of the Cooperative Grocer making the point... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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From the Mouths of Babes
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17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Flash Back, Flash Forward Events are accelerating. Recently, discussing the early years of many of today's food co-ops, a friend remarked how much faster things seem to be occurring. The pace of change can also reveal the... |
16 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Senate Considers Deep Cuts to Organic and Sustainable Ag The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture is urging immediate pressure on U.S. Senators to prevent deep cuts to funding of programs for organic and sustainable farming and food production... |
04 Mar 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Excellent Resources from Organic Conferences Even if you missed recent key conferences on organics, you can get audio recordings of the many valuable speakers and workshop discussions. Two major annual gatherings of organic farmers... |
04 Mar 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Questioning At-Will Employment In the previous edition of this magazine (CG #151, November–December 2010) we read about the progress of the Domestic Fair Trade Association in establishing principles for domestic fair trade.... |
03 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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Two Faces of Customer Service Mike dropped by the co-op to grab a sandwich for a quick lunch. He brought his purchase to the checkout counter, relieved to see the cashier had nearly finished with the customer ahead of him.... |
03 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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The Best Job Ever The following statements were made by pre-teens and teenagers from Philadelphia public schools. Be warned—you’ll be shocked. |
03 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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Co-ops Are Doing It for Themselves On Saturday, Oct. 2, Seward Cooperative Grocery & Deli in Minneapolis was the first consumer co-op to launch the Principle Six Cooperative Trade Movement (P6) to its customers and the larger... |
03 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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The Cooperative Economy Is Booming! Six years ago, Food Co-op 500 started with a volunteer task force and no staff. NCB/NCB Capital Impact donated some staff time (Richard Dines) to coordinate a round of seed grants and to assemble... |
03 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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Pioneer Market Meets Downtown Troy Pioneer Market opened on Oct. 5 after five years of organizing. Located in the central downtown of Troy, N.Y., the co-op attracted major civic investment as the only full-sized grocery store in... |
03 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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NCGA Responds to GE Alfalfa Deregulation IOWA CITY, IOWA (Jan. 28, 2011)– National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) expressed disappointment with the USDA’s decision for complete deregulation of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready genetically... |
01 Feb 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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"Flexible or Flawed" Co-op Laws Rick Stewart: "Pigs are authorized to wear lipstick" To the editor:After leaving Frontier Natural Products Co-op in 1999, I enjoyed distracting myself with various non-co-op activities such as... |
01 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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New Support for Urban Cooperative Development CooperationWorks! (CW) and the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) announced on Oct. 15, 2010, a new initiative for urban cooperative development. Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.),... |
01 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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Cultivating Policy Support for Sustainable Farming Why should we care about the Farm Bill? Because no other piece of legislation determines the direction of food and farm policy more than this law. In other words, a sustainable food future largely... |
01 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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Capital Crunch, Capitol Crawl Creative proposals and inspiring stories illustrate ways to advance the cooperative agenda. That agenda is quite diverse in its programs, but co-ops share a common set of values and principles and... |
01 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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Hanover Co-op Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary! Seventy-five years ago—a general meeting was held in the library of the Hanover, New Hampshire, High School at 7:30 p.m., January 6, 1936, for the purpose of organizing a consumers’ club. |
14 Jan 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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A Victory for Local and Regional Food Updating the story on food safety legislation. |
05 Jan 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
