Enjoy the archive of Cooperative Grocer magazine, with articles going back to 1985.

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Also available in the archives is LEADer, the NCG Governance Newsletter

    Title Issuesort descending Date
    A Credible Alternative to the Current Economic System
    BY

    A TED presentation in the U.K.

    		 Endcap Articles April 8, 2013
    "The Cooperative Turn"
    BY Dave Gutknecht
    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.
    		 Endcap Articles August 4, 2012
    More Co-ops Vote for Unions
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    A summary of labor unions and food co-ops, with reference to the current situation at Seward Co-op, appears in the current issue of the Minneapolis neighborhood paper,

    		Endcap Articles June 21, 2017
    Fair Trade Fight Featured in the Nation
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    The U.S. fair trade world has been in a state of division for quite some time.

    		 Endcap Articles August 30, 2012
    Elm City Market Demutualizes
    BY

    In an unfortunate action that is the first of its kind, at least for the current generation of food co-ops, Elm City Market in New Haven, Connecticut, has demutualized and is no longer a co-op.  Th

    		 Endcap Articles October 17, 2014
    Poison Pesticides Undermine Organic Health
    BY Dave Gutknecht
    New studies and a documentary reinforce a key organic message: pesticides are damaging to children and adults.
    		Endcap Articles April 25, 2011
    Food Co-ops and the Road to Organic Valley: Part 2
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    [Originally published in "RootStock," Spring-Summer 2009]

    		 Endcap Articles November 20, 2010
    Maine Food Co-ops: Tide is Up!
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    An impressive surge of expansion and new food co-ops is happening in many areas, and Maine is a great example.  The number of food co-ops in the state will soon double over recent years, it appears

    		 Endcap Articles March 12, 2014
    Small Town Grocers Disappearing
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Small towns face formidable challenges in retaining grocery stores, and their communities suffer and decline when the last local food store closes.Yet replacing unprofitable small stores with a co-

    		 Endcap Articles May 31, 2016
    Hanover Co-op Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary!
    BY Dan Nordley

    Seventy-five years ago—a general meeting was held in the library of the Hanover, New Hampshire, High School at 7:30 p.m., January 6, 1936, for the purpose of organizing a consumers’ club.

    		 Endcap Articles January 14, 2011
    Food Co-ops and Natural Foods Retailers Raise the Bar on Hershey
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Forty-one consumer food co-ops and natural foods retailers operating 62 stores released an open letter on Au

    		 Endcap Articles August 30, 2012
    Building Democracy and Successful Worker Co-ops
    BY

    Excellent work and analysis on cooperative development continues to be found at community-wealth.org, a project of the Democracy Collaborative.  For people interested in cooperative development gen

    		 Endcap Articles October 20, 2014
    Cooperative Grocer Magazine transferred to CGIN
    BY Dan Nordley

    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 ann

    		 Endcap Articles June 20, 2012
    Prospects in Hard Times: Part 3
    BY Dave Gutknecht
    [“Rootstock” Part 3: 2009, unpublished]
    		Endcap Articles November 20, 2010
    New Study: Twin Cities Co-op Local Food System
    BY

    Just published: a new, in-depth look at food co-ops in the greater metropolitan Minneapolis-St.

    		 Endcap Articles April 15, 2014
    GMO Contamination: It's not the first time
    BY

    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
    Elinor Ostrom, the Commons, and Anti-Capitalism
    BY

    A helpful introduction to Elinor Ostrom's writings on the commons is found in a comment by Derek Wall at STIR, a site focused on “Co-ops. Community.

    		 Endcap Articles June 10, 2014
    A Victory for Local and Regional Food
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Updating the story on food safety legislation.

    		 Endcap Articles January 5, 2011
    North Dakota Again Rejects Corporate Farming
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Hurrah for North Dakota voters, who on June 14 voted in a statewide referendum on the issue of whether non-family corporations could buy up farmland in their state.

    		 Endcap Articles June 18, 2016
    Cooperative Foundation Announces New Grants
    BY external news source

    The Cooperative Foundation board of directors recently announced an additional $25,000 in grants for cooperative development (listed below)—bringing its 2015 grants awarded to nearly $90,000.

    		 Endcap Articles December 1, 2015