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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 |
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GMO Contamination: It's not the first time In late May the USDA announced that unapproved genetically modified (GMO) wheat has been discovered in a field in Oregon, which is a major wheat exporter – yet no GMO wheat has been approved... |
30 May 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Growing Our Future
Cooperatives have a great thing going—let's share and grow it! But it's never that simple. Food co-ops and allies have been paying increasing attention to... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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NCGA Debuts Co+op Kitchen Videos When it comes to cooking at home, choosing the right ingredients and understanding basic kitchen skills can make the difference between a good meal and an amazing one. In the National Cooperative... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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A Touchstone Event for Startup Co-ops As hosts of the annual "Up and Coming, Up and Running Food Co-op Conference," participants from Bloomingfoods Market and Deli Cooperative (Bloomington, Ind.) are keenly aware of the many... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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Building a Cooperative of Independent Natural Food Retailers Cooperative Grocer: Congratulations on the Independent Natural Food Retailers Association (INFRA) (www.naturalfoodretailers.net) growing to over 100 member retailers. By way of introduction,... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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Bowers Fund Helps Grow Co-ops Thanks to co-ops' support of the Bowers Fund, approximately 20 -people receive scholarships to the attend CCMA conference (Consumer Cooperative Management Association) each year. ... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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Wheatsville's BIG Direction
In Austin, Texas, Wheatsville Co-op is taking a BIG Direction: "Business Is Good." Wheatsville's BIG Direction is the general manager's interpretation of our Ends -... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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Sales Tax: Not Simple I joined the French Broad Food Co-op team in 2009. Sales had been plummeting for five consecutive years. We were broke, losing millions in sales to new competitors, having a hard time keeping... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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Seven Steps to Re-energize Your Cooperative Culture "Culture is to an organization what water is to a fish—it is the environment that exists all around us." If I asked you to describe the culture of your food co-op in... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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Governing with Excellence, Using Awareness and Discipline Why is it that some of our retail food cooperative boards really make a powerful difference in their communities, while others flounder? What can we learn from strong boards, and what can we learn... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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Capital: Sources and Abuses Discussions here reflect much that has been learned about coopera-tive capital as well as lessons still to be absorbed by some food co-ops. Gone, for the most part, are formerly common practices... |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
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NCGA Expands Development Focus The "Healthy Foods, Healthy Communities" independent study of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of food co-ops, recently released by the National Cooperative Grocers... |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
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Food Co-op Initiative—Three Years March 17, 2013, marks three years of Food Co-op Initiative (FCI), and we invite you to celebrate with us. What are we celebrating? Since we began our work, |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
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Get Ready for the Cooperative Decade During 2012, the UN International Year of Cooperatives (IYC), many U.S. cooperators took the opportunity to work together to promote existing co-ops and lay the groundwork for a stronger movement... |
11 Apr 2013 | 165 April 2013 |
