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Catching the Co-op Wave in San Diego High spirits and stimulating conversations marked the 55th annual Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference in San Diego June 16–18. Attendees included over 400 food co-op... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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A Call to Be Inclusive In June, I was inspired once again by the annual CCMA conference of food co-op leaders, summarized elsewhere in these pages. I also have a few uneasy questions, but those too stem from breathing... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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From Cool Ideas to Cooler Results Serving on a board has been some of the most rewarding work I’ve done in my life, but it rarely has provided instant gratification. And that’s appropriate—the board takes a long-term view. |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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Food Hubs Build Local Food Infrastructure Two USDA publications issued in 2010 provide useful reports on the challenges and advantages of “food hubs,” a concept that is central to the ongoing revival of local food systems. These and... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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Sharing Passions and Expertise with Startups On a Monday in May, I addressed a room crowded with attentive listeners who had come to hear how to add an income-generating activity to their food co-op organizing efforts. They were 127 people... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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The Politics of Cooperation: Exploring the Landscape Cultivating cooperation, by its nature, means working with many different groups. Here is a primer on the many organizations and resources you need to know about as you work to establish or... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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From the Ground Up A growing category in grocery retail embraces farmer-ownership. What do Divine Chocolate, Ocean Spray, Tillamook, Organic Valley, and Florida’s Natural have in common? They are all “farmer-owned”... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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Steps to a Solidarity Economy Cooperation among cooperatives is a basic principle of the co-op movement. In Kansas, New York, and Massachusetts, food co-ops are applying this concept in a creative way: providing deep and solid... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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Farmers and Consumers Together At the annual winter conference of the Vermont Northeast Organic Farming Association earlier this year, author and activist Bill McKibben congratulated those gathered on a cold, windy day in... |
26 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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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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Understanding Financial Ratios This month we study a case example of how the ratios presented in Cooperative Grocer can be used to analyze a co-op's financial position and direction. We are grateful that Ocean... |
10 May 2011 | #074 January - February - 1998 |
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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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Cultivating Community Through School Gardens Community Mercantile (The Merc) in Lawrence, Kan., welcomed six new employees to its ranks in the spring of 2010—not at all unusual for our co-op of 130 employees—but these enthusiastic employees... |
27 Apr 2011 | #154 May - June - 2011 |
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Power Triggers, Seesaw Battles and Handcar Cooperation Most would agree that a healthy board-general manager relationship not only makes the co-op run more smoothly, it is a critical connection between member-owners and operations in our... |
25 Apr 2011 | #154 May - June - 2011 |
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Farming Cooperatively The largest single farmer in Britain is The Co-operative Farms, a subsidiary of The Co-operative Group. They farm 55,000 acres at 15 locations throughout England and Scotland. Of those acres, 20,... |
25 Apr 2011 | #154 May - June - 2011 |
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Farm Tours in the Berkshires People in the Berkshires of Massachusetts love local food! They search for it at co-ops, farmers markets, CSAs and anywhere else they can find fresh food produced close to home. Many of them even... |
25 Apr 2011 | #154 May - June - 2011 |
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PCC Farmland Trust PCC Natural Markets in Seattle didn't plan to start a nonprofit in 1999. But one of its local farmers, Nash Huber, was facing development pressure in "Sunny Sequim," a rare sun-filled valley in... |
25 Apr 2011 | #154 May - June - 2011 |
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Supporting Small Farms, Teaching Organic Agriculture Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op began its partnerships with small organic farms in 1998 when it sponsored a farmer to attend The Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the... |
25 Apr 2011 | #154 May - June - 2011 |
