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Accounting Best Practices Primer Now Available Accounting Best Practices for Food Co-ops: A Primer is now available, an excellent and concise (14-page) summary in four sections: balance sheet, income statement, internal control, and cash... |
15 Nov 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Fair Trade Fight Featured in the Nation The U.S. fair trade world has been in a state of division for quite some time. The Nation magazine in its September 10, 2012 issue has published a full-length story. |
30 Aug 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Food Co-ops and Natural Foods Retailers Raise the Bar on Hershey Forty-one consumer food co-ops and natural foods retailers operating 62 stores released an open letter on August 23 to the Hershey Company, demanding that Hershey take action to end child slave... |
30 Aug 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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New Study on Impact of Food Co-ops A fascinating and detailed look at the impact of food co-ops has just been released by the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA). Available as a pdf, this 21-page report compares co-op... |
06 Aug 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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"The Cooperative Turn" A new article, subtitled "Building the right kind of autonomy," provides an excellent overview of what cooperatives can offer a world that is in economic crisis. "The Cooperative Turn," written... |
04 Aug 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Credit Unions Seek Senate Support Urge your senators to listen to the credit unions -- the ones with the plan for helping small business and our nation's economic recovery. That’s the message from the CEO of the Credit... |
20 Jul 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Follow the Farm Bill at sustainableagriculture.net The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) continues to provide current and complete information on the Farm Bill as it moves through Congress: www.sustainableagriculture.net. This... |
14 Jul 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Cooperative Grocer Magazine transferred to CGIN To the delight of the almost seventy people attending the Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network annual meeting at CCMA in Philadelphia in June 2012, it was announced that the National... |
20 Jun 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Cooperative Ownership Gaining Attention The flowering of new worker-owned cooperatives and other innovative forms of economic democracy is slowly gaining more attention in various cities and through diverse media channels. One such... |
31 May 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Canada's Impressive Co-operative Sector Canada’s co-ops certainly are leaders in North American cooperative circles. One-third of all its citizens are members of one of Canada’s credit unions. Canada’s 9,000 co-ops dot the landscape... |
31 May 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Bill Gessner Joins Cooperative Hall of Fame Many readers of this site will recognize Bill Gessner’s name from his many past contributions to food co-ops, both through Cooperative Grocer and directly at scores of co-ops where he has... |
08 May 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Fresh Foods, Fresh Questions Growth in fresh food sales – and “fresh packaged” – is at the heart of recent comments from the Hartman Group, a leading analyst of the natural/organic grocery industry whose research has... |
25 Mar 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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An Italian View of "Co-op: Made in USA" A new publication presents a dossier on U.S. worker-owned and consumer co-ops in the U.S. Written by Enrico Massetti, an Italian who has lived in the United States for the last 30 years, "Co-op:... |
08 Mar 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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America Beyond Capitalism In a recent article in "Dollars and Sense," Gar Alperovitz presents cooperative enterprise, especially worker-owned co-ops, along with other methods of democratizing capital -- an essential... |
09 Jan 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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IYC Message from Pauline Green Pauline Green, president of the International Cooperative Alliance, in early January released a message about the International Year of Cooperatives. It was published through the "Guardian/UK"... |
08 Jan 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Just Label It – We Have a Right to Know The campaign to require labeling of foods produced with genetic engineering is more powerful than ever. In early October a broad coalition of organizations (www.justlabelit.org) put the FDA and... |
10 Oct 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Small Farms Create More Jobs Gene Logsdon is a wise and delightful writer on food and farming. Author of “The Contrary Farmer” essay collection, he also maintains a website under that name: http://www.thecontraryfarmer.com... |
14 Sep 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Social Justice and New Food Co-ops Jobs and access to food are urgent needs in many communities. Two new and thought-provoking articles examine how social justice organizations are taking innovative paths to new co-op formation,... |
18 Aug 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Meat and Dairy Illustrate Resource Limits: EWG Report Even as co-ops and other local food providers promote meat and dairy from pastured livestock, these advocates are confronted with drawbacks to a diet centered on those resource-intensive foods. “... |
19 Jul 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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E. Coli: The problem is industrial livestock Don’t blame the sprouts. The E. coli strain causing death and illness in Germany, and other strains, originate in livestock and typically are spread through improper handling of manure. Two... |
08 Jun 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Fukushima Radiation Reaches U.S. Food Supply The devastating effects of the core fuel meltdown in at least three nuclear reactors at Japan’s Fukushima site are not limited to the immediate region – where many will suffer from its radiation,... |
02 Jun 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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New Economy Gains Traction An excellent summary of organizations and ideas that are contributing to a new economy – based on cooperatives, wealth sharing, and conservation of resources – appears in both The Nation (June 13... |
31 May 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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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 |
