127 November - December - 2006

Issue Number:

127

Issue Months:

November - December

Issue Year:

2 006

Issue's Articles

Title	Issue	Date
Bigger Is Better BY Sarah Lebherz Some people thought we were crazy to go from a 4,000-square-foot store to an 18,000-square-foot store. It definitely took a lot of courage from all levels of our organization.	127 November - December - 2006	January 20, 2009
U.K. Cooperatives on the Move BY David Thompson The face of Britain’s consumer cooperatives has changed dramatically over the past decade. A once shrinking sector is on the move.	127 November - December - 2006	January 20, 2009
NCGA Signs National Purchasing Agreement BY Kelly Smith Our National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) had much to celebrate at its General Assembly in Austin, Texas, this September.	127 November - December - 2006	January 20, 2009
Locally Grown Conservation BY Dave Gutknecht Is your cooperative selling local salad greens and prominently telling people about it?	127 November - December - 2006	January 20, 2009
Four Years Early BY Francis Murphy, Lisa Smith One of Neighborhood Co-op’s board members recently said, “We’ve achieved the co-op in 2010 in 2006!” With this curious statement he was referring to the result of a “Future-Back” planning process t	127 November - December - 2006	January 20, 2009
Cutting Edge in the Cotswolds? BY Doug Walter How can food co-ops in North America achieve greater alignment and forge a common identity? One way is by learning from co-op movements in the rest of the world.	127 November - December - 2006	January 20, 2009
Beyond Organic BY Barth Anderson Organic food is still growing at a remarkable clip, especially now that this “pure product” has made the leap from food co-ops to megastores like Wal-Mart, which is infamous for driving down wholes	127 November - December - 2006	January 20, 2009
Investing in the Cooperative Economy BY Margaret Lund Food co-op members know how important it is to “source” a product.	127 November - December - 2006	January 20, 2009
Organics and E. Coli BY Cissy Bowman The big news this fall is spinach, salad mixes and E. coli. Retailers of organic products will need to be able to address this issue.	127 November - December - 2006	January 20, 2009
No Bags Allowed BY Donald Kreis Thanks to the wonders of anesthesia, a trip to the dentist’s office to have a cavity filled is no longer a painful experience, but it is still anything but pleasant.	127 November - December - 2006	December 29, 2006
Getting Down to Values BY Cindy Owings The Community Food Co-op (CFC) in Bozeman, Montana, with an active membership of over 19,000, is 27 years old.	127 November - December - 2006	December 29, 2006
Bringing Fair Trade Home BY Erbin Crowell Domestic or international? One of my most lasting memories from my visit with the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in Georgia last summer was a profound sense of commonality.	127 November - December - 2006	December 29, 2006
Principles of Domestic Fair Trade BY Domestic Fair Trade Working Group In recent years, the international Fair Trade movement has gained momentum, reaching more producers, traders and consumers with its message of fairness and equity in global trade.	127 November - December - 2006	November 29, 2006
Open Harvest Co-op Receives Federal Grant for Community Food Project BY From The Lincoln Journal Star In early October, the mayor of Lincoln, Neb., Coleen Seng, and Open Harvest Cooperative Grocery announced that the cooperative and the city parks and recreation department had received a federal gr	127 November - December - 2006	November 29, 2006