David Thompson

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Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation

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David Thompson is the author of Weavers of Dreams, co-author of Cooperation Works and Cooperative Business in the USA and President of Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation.

Articles by David Thompson

Looking to the UN’s International Year of Cooperatives

Issue: #158 January - February - 2012

When the president of the United Nations General Assembly invited Dame Pauline Green to come to the iconic green marble podium, a billion proud cooperators walked with her. As she spoke in her...

Farming Cooperatively

Issue: #154 May - June - 2011

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,...

Remember the Member

Issue: #140 January - February - 2009

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There is a revolution going on among food cooperatives in the U.S. The root of the...

Acquisition Nearly Doubles the U.K. Cooperative Footprint!

Issue: #138 September - October - 2008

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This July 14 the Co-operative Group in the United Kingdom purchased the...

Japan: Land of Cooperatives

Issue: #135 March - April - 2008

Of the “cooperative commonwealths” in the world there is none so prevalent in a nation’s daily life as the cooperatives of Japan. From rural to urban, farmer to consumer, or student to senior,...

U.K. Cooperatives on the Move

Issue: #127 November - December - 2006

The face of Britain’s consumer cooperatives has changed dramatically over the past decade. A once shrinking sector is on the move. A generation of co-op leaders born around World War II (1939–45)...

Building the Future

Issue: #121 November - December - 2005

The COOP group of retailers in Italy is the largest and fastest growing co-op sector in Europe. For U.S. food co-ops, how COOP, a confederation of consumer co-ops, became the market leader in...

New Millennium, New Future

Issue: #115 November - December - 2004

A new millennium started when the clock struck midnight in Greenwich, England on December 31, 1999. Further north, in Manchester, a new era began for leaders of the British consumer cooperative...

Expanding Co-op Community Funds

Issue: #114 September - October - 2004

For the coming year we have high hopes for the growth of the Cooperative Community Fund program. Looking ahead, here are the results that we anticipate:
At the end of 2005 the partner co-ops...

Italy's Emilia Romagna

Issue: #109 November - December - 2003

Recent cooperative development in the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna can be broken down into three time periods. First, the postwar era (1945-1965) of rebuilding cooperative structures...