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Congressional Cuts "Breathtaking" in Their Recklessness Here is the latest from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition from Washington (www.sustainableagriculture.net), and it's not pretty: |
25 May 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Co-operative Farms Acts to Protect Bees The Co-operative Group, the U.K. consumer cooperative featured elsewhere on this page and in the current issue of Cooperative Grocer, has launched an ambitious new drive to protect bees and other... |
25 May 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Wendell Berry: "Local Adaptation is Work for Everybody" Author Wendell Berry gave the following brief but profound observations at "The Future of Food," a conference sponsored by the Washington Post. (For recordings of this speech, plus... |
09 May 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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The legend of Toyohiko Kagawa lives on The Co-op Food Store in Hanover, NH, held its third annual Co-op Expo on April 30, and was honored to present a lecture by author and cooperator David Thompson. Learn more and listen to the... |
06 May 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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New Study: A Manual for Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives Food co-ops typically have hundreds or thousands of consumer owners. But there can be other stakeholders, and a number of food cooperatives, including both new and established businesses, share... |
25 Apr 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Poison Pesticides Undermine Organic Health New studies and a documentary reinforce a key organic message: pesticides are damaging to children and adults. Education and marketing are never-ending challenges. Organic food production... |
25 Apr 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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More on New "Co-op" Laws Defending the brand and principles of cooperatives in light of new laws: Adding to recent contributions in Cooperative Grocer on new laws which allow a greater role for private investors in... |
24 Mar 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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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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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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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 |
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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 |
