Dave Gutknecht
Dave Gutknecht has been editor of Cooperative Grocer magazine since its founding in 1985.
Author's Articles
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Are cooperatives ready for new challenges? They are receiving greater attention as a democratic means for addressing social and economic needs—and those needs are growing. |
146 January - February - 2010 | January 5, 2010 |
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These may actually be good circumstances for cooperatives. |
145 November - December - 2009 | January 5, 2010 |
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Although cooperatives have pioneered in building organics and local food production, we have a long way to go before we’ll know what a sustainable food system looks like. |
144 September - October - 2009 | January 5, 2010 |
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During 1990, long-standing but little noticed regulatory threats to member labor and member loan programs were carried out against cooperatives. |
032 January - February - 1991 | January 26, 2010 |
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As shown again in this issue, food co-ops operate in the crosscurrents of dynamic local revival and deep national problems: Slow Food and junk food. Slow Money and accelerating debt. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
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Spend most earnings now, or invest more in the future—what is the proper balance? We can see, in the current financial mess, some consequences of imbalance. |
148 May - June - 2010 | June 4, 2010 |
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Surrounded by the rolling hills of southern Indiana, some 360 co-op board members, managers, staff, trainers and others attended the 2010 Consumer Cooperative Management Association ( |
149 July - August - 2010* | July 15, 2010 |
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Annual milestones and awards of recognition are noted here, with some food co-ops in year one and others now at age 40. |
149 July - August - 2010* | July 15, 2010 |
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Welcome to a new era, one of expanded possibilities for cooperatives as well as overall economic decline. Readers will be familiar with this message, even if resisting its conclusions. |
136 may - june - 2008 | July 20, 2010 |
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Here is a quote, from David Orr’s book Down to the Wire, which captures the scope of what we need to be doing to build the transition to a more resilient and possibly sustainable society: “Every increase in local capacity to grow food, generate energy, repair, |
Endcap Articles | September 5, 2010 |
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An noteworthy article by Anna Lappe, Three Pillars of a Food Revolution appeared recently in Yes! magazine. |
Endcap Articles | September 5, 2010 |
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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 |
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While completing its 35th year of advancing cooperative enterprise, the Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE) is extending loans at a record pace. |
150 September - October 2010 | October 5, 2010 |
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[First published 2008 in Organic Valley's Rootstock.] |
Endcap Articles | October 7, 2010 |
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Adding to the earlier version of this story: National Sustainable Agriculture Committee has released a new report on food safety: “A Sustainable Agriculture Perspective on Food Safety.”
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Endcap Articles | October 25, 2010 |
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Animal response to fire typically is described as fear and flight. Yet I have noticed many times that the smell of seasoned oak in a wood-burning stove is so savory that it makes my mouth water. |
Endcap Articles | November 12, 2010 |
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[Originally published in "RootStock," Spring-Summer 2009] |
Endcap Articles | November 20, 2010 |
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[“Rootstock” Part 3: 2009, unpublished]
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Endcap Articles | November 20, 2010 |
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I remember learning balance sheet basics at some of my earliest co-op meetings. "A = L + C" was written for all to see, then explained again and again: Assets = Liabilities + Capital. |
151 November - December 2010 | December 8, 2010 |
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Securing adequate capital from members as well as external sources is a primary cooperative challenge. |
151 November - December 2010 | December 8, 2010 |