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

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    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
    Credit Unions Seek Senate Support
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Urge your senators to listen to the credit unions -- the ones with the plan for helping small business and our nation's economic recovery.

    		 Endcap Articles July 20, 2012
    Global Cooperative Summit in Quebec
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Nearly 3,000 cooperators from more than 100 countries met in Quebec on October 11-13 at a third global cooperative Summit.

    		 Endcap Articles October 26, 2016
    Accounting Best Practices Primer
    BY Bruce Mayer, Peg Nolan, Steve Wolfe

    Accounting Best Practices for Food Co-ops: A Primer is now available, an excellent and concise (14-page) summary in four sections:  balance sheet, income statement, internal control, and c

    		 Endcap Articles November 15, 2012
    PCC Natural Markets is Used to Amazon and Whole Foods
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Cate Hardy, the CEO of the Seattle area's leading food co-op, PCC Natural Markets, comments in a recent newspaper report that they are already very familiar with competition from Whole Foods and Am

    		 Endcap Articles June 17, 2017
    Identifying Cooperative Allies
    BY

    How to build a broader movement for social change. How to evaluate the cooperative alignment and potential of allies such as nonprofits, land trusts, and advocacy groups?

    		 Endcap Articles December 17, 2014
    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
    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
    Rosemary Mahoney Honored for Cooperative Service:
    BY Alison Powers

    From the United States to Communist Eastern Europe to West Africa, few people have made more of an impact in fostering the cooperative movement on a global scale than Rosemary Mahoney.

    		 Endcap Articles February 18, 2018
    Countering Myths About World Hunger
    BY

    World hunger is real and widespread -- but it is not for lack of food, rather lack of food justice.  Cooperators can help address these issues by being well-informed.  Here are two links to excelle

    		 Endcap Articles November 10, 2014
    Annual Report Shows Healthy U.K. Co-ops
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Ever want to know a bit more about co-ops in the United Kingdom? An annual summary of these co-ops is now available: http://bit.ly/2t2D0H3.

    		 Endcap Articles June 20, 2017
    Examining a Bankruptcy at Mondragon
    BY

    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
    Sustainability Report Highlights Organics, Co-ops
    BY

    Efforts to reduce waste and energy consumption in the supply chain are detailed in a new report from the Sustainable Food Trade Association http://www.

    		 Endcap Articles May 1, 2014
    Websites on Food System Environmental Impacts
    BY

    An excellent listing of 15 websites that focus on the food system and its environmental impacts is available from foodtank.org, a nonprofit dedicated to improving those impacts: 

    		Endcap Articles June 25, 2013
    Study Reaffirmed: Roundup-Ready GMO corn causes serious health damage
    BY

    A 2012 study that identified serious health effects from feeding GMO (genetically modified organisms) corn and the Monsanto corporation’s glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup has been strongly reaffi

    		 Endcap Articles June 26, 2014
    When the Egg Thing Broke
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    The risk of salmonella poisoning at poultry operations with atrocious practices led to a massive egg recall totaling over 500 million eggs and reaching more than 22 states.  It is driving consumers

    		 Endcap Articles September 5, 2010
    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
    Organic Standards Undermined During Government Standoff
    BY

    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