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Bad for Bees: EPA Bows to Bayer Tom Philpot at Grist, www.grist.org, continues to contribute excellent reporting on food and pharm corporations. These businesses and their federal regulators regularly undermine public... |
13 Dec 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Prospects in Hard Times: Part 3 [“Rootstock” Part 3: 2009, unpublished] Think organic food. Think childcare and other essential services. Think community economic development and local lending. These are the kinds of... |
20 Nov 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Food Co-ops and the Road to Organic Valley: Part 2 [Originally published in "RootStock," Spring-Summer 2009] Part 1, published in the previous edition of RootStock, summarized twenty years of food co-ops’ early years, when these community-... |
20 Nov 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Recommended: "Catching Fire" Animal response to fire typically is described as fear and flight. Yet I have noticed many times that the smell of seasoned oak in a wood-burning stove is so savory that it makes my mouth water... |
12 Nov 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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"Consumer Groups Get It Wrong" -- Plus a new food safety report Adding to the earlier version of this story: National Sustainable Agriculture Committee has released a new report on food safety: “A Sustainable Agriculture Perspective on Food Safety.” ... |
25 Oct 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Food Co-ops and the Road to Organic Valley: Part 1 [First published 2008 in Organic Valley's Rootstock.] Click here for Part 2. Twenty years ago, organic agriculture was a glimmer of light in a declining farm economy. From the... |
07 Oct 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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When the Egg Thing Broke The risk of salmonella poisoning at poultry operations with atrocious practices led to a massive egg recall totaling over 500 million eggs and reaching more than 22 states. It is driving... |
05 Sep 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Core Values: Three pillars of a food revolution An noteworthy article by Anna Lappe, Three Pillars of a Food Revolution appeared recently in Yes! magazine. Based on a June 2010 presentation to a National Cooperative Grocers Association... |
05 Sep 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Creating Resilience: The Larger Agenda Here is a quote, from David Orr’s book Down to the Wire, which captures the scope of what we need to be doing to build the transition to a more resilient and possibly sustainable society: “... |
05 Sep 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Organic Food is About Public Health Reducing the significance of organic food to its “healthiness” is a bit like reducing politics to a matter of “truthiness.” The recent Stanford University study (September... |
07 Sep 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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National Co-op Development Act Proposed The National Cooperative Development Act of 2011 needs the support of the public and members of Congress – see http://www.campaign.coop/. The bill promotes job creation and economic... |
06 Feb 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Survey of Co-op Potential in "Yes" Magazine "A Cooperative Economy" is the theme of "Yes!" magazine's spring 2013 issue: http://www.yesmagazine.org -- covering such examples as worker ownership, food co-ops and... |
11 Feb 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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"Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers" Published In mid-February a major new study was released by the Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds. Available for free download at http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org, the 50-page document,... |
16 Feb 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Building the GMO Labeling Campaign The growing demand for labeling that identifies genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) lost the California referendum but will be on the ballot later this year in the state of Washington. ... |
11 Mar 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Blueprint for a Cooperative Decade The International Cooperative Alliance has produced an impressive document that follows upon the International Year of Cooperatives. Follow this link, http://ica.coop/en/media/library/member... |
17 Mar 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Isla Vista Food Co-op Purchases Its Home Through a grassroots funding campaign, along with lender support from NCB (National Co-op Bank) and NCDF (Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund), the Isla Vista Food Co-op has recently been... |
21 Mar 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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A Credible Alternative to the Current Economic System A TED presentation in the U.K. by Shane Hughes, titled “The Unstoppable Rise of a Collaborative Economy,” argued for the combination of a cooperative economy, a collaborative economy,... |
08 Apr 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Visioning a Better Future of Business Advocates of cooperatives need allies with compatible visions of social change – including, most challengingly, visions that assume limits to growth and capital. The search for more... |
02 May 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Looking at Energy Use in the Food System These days we’re all learning about our energy supply, whether or not we have expected those lessons, and that includes advocates for a healthier food supply. For a broad overview of... |
13 May 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Looking at Energy Use in the Food System These days, we’re all learning about our energy supply, whether we expected to or not -- and that includes advocates of a healthier food supply. Here is a link to the Post-... |
13 May 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Organic Valley Headquarters Closed by Fire Updates at bottom: On May 14, a fire badly damaged the headquarters of Organic Valley in La Farge, Wisconsin. No one was injured, according to LaCrosse news station WXOW.com: http://... |
15 May 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Rebecca Dunn Inducted to Cooperative Hall of Fame Congratulations to Rebecca Dunn, who was inducted into the Cooperative Hall of Fame on May 8. Dunn, the executive director of the Cooperative Fund of New England for the past 27 years, was... |
17 May 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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"Food for Change" Documentary Nears Completion A new feature film on co-op history and today’s food co-ops is nearing completion. With some 35 co-ops already contributing support for production of “Food for Change” and... |
23 May 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Public Ownership: "Socialism, American Style" If cooperatives are an essential component of a fair economy, public ownership has an even bigger role. Think essential infrastructure and services: roads, water and other utilities,... |
23 May 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
