Endcap Articles
Issue's Articles
Title | Issue | Date |
---|---|---|
Local and regional food systems, organics, healthy food access, and rural development all received improved funding under the new farm bill as well as suffered from missed opportunities in the very |
Endcap Articles | February 14, 2014 |
A valuable discussion by members of GEO (Grassroots Economic Organizing) and readers of its website examines why a key company comprising part of the world’s strongest worker-owned complex in Mondr |
Endcap Articles | January 27, 2014 |
The Co-op Natural Foods Store in Sioux Falls suffered a devasting fire early on Sunday. |
Endcap Articles | January 20, 2014 |
Congress is being asked to “fast-track” the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would prevent many of its outrageous provisions, designed by and for multinational corporations, from getting the debate |
Endcap Articles | January 16, 2014 |
Two sources of excellent examples and thoughtful questions about cooperatives and their potential: John Restakis, author of Humanizing the Economy: Cooperatives in the Age of Capital and |
Endcap Articles | January 13, 2014 |
An excellent report and overview appeared in a recent issue of Dollars and Sense and may be found on its website: htt |
Endcap Articles | December 20, 2013 |
The 19th century cooperative movement also originated the cooperative land trust. Both are part of longstanding campaigns to preserve the commons and the commonwealth against private concentration |
Endcap Articles | December 4, 2013 |
The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) has announced that its chief executive officer, Robynn Shrader, has been elected president of Consumer Cooperatives Worldwide (CCW), a sectoral o |
Endcap Articles | November 22, 2013 |
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FMSA) threatens many small producers with food safety requirements more appropriate for much larger processors. The deadline for comments has been extended to Fr |
Endcap Articles | November 7, 2013 |
Although the final count is not in, here’s an initial report – http://grist.org/food/washington-gmo-labeling-initiativ |
Endcap Articles | November 6, 2013 |
A key National Organic Standards Board meeting and discussions scheduled for October 17 have been cancelled. Meanwhile, the USDA-controlled National Organic Program is making another attempt to un |
Endcap Articles | October 15, 2013 |
The Democracy Collaborative continues to issue valuable summaries of current efforts to build economic institutions and policies that will serve communities in a democratic manner. Gar Alperovitz |
Endcap Articles | September 25, 2013 |
Endcap Articles | September 12, 2013 | |
Set against the backdrop of turmoil in America’s food system, Drift, a thriller about GMOs (genetically modified organisms), has been written by Jon McGoran, a longtime Weavers Way Co-op c |
Endcap Articles | August 26, 2013 |
Endcap Articles | August 9, 2013 | |
What do the following have in common? Real Pickles, a new worker cooperative in Massachusetts; Arroyo Food Co-op, a startup in Pasadena, Cal.; and People’s Community Market in Oakland; also Ben &a |
Endcap Articles | August 2, 2013 |
An excellent and lengthy essay, Can Union Cooperatives Save Democracy? has just been posted by John Clay at his |
Endcap Articles | July 12, 2013 |
Endcap Articles | June 25, 2013 | |
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 for tr |
Endcap Articles | May 30, 2013 |
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, emergency re |
Endcap Articles | May 23, 2013 |