Dave Gutknecht
Dave Gutknecht has been editor of Cooperative Grocer magazine since its founding in 1985.
Author's Articles
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Members of the Michigan Federation of Food Co-ops voted on February 29 to consolidate with North Farm Co-op, based in Madison, Wisconsin. |
040 May - June - 1992 | January 9, 2004 |
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We have much that we can be proud of. Co-ops in numerous towns and cities are active players in their community's environmental affairs. |
040 May - June - 1992 | January 9, 2004 |
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Results from this year's Retail Cooperative Operations Survey show that 1992 was another year of strong growth and overall profitability for these stores. |
047 July - August - 1993 | January 9, 2004 |
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Recent applications of Department of Labor minimum wage and related requirements to co-op member labor -- where members receive a discount on purchases in exchange for co-op work -- have highlighte |
034 May - June - 1991 | January 9, 2004 |
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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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After fifteen months of debt-heavy operations, Tucson's Food Conspiracy Cooperative closed its 24,000 square foot natural foods supermarket in mid-December. |
039 March - April - 1992 | January 9, 2004 |
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Bruce Bacon is a community activist and market gardener in Ramsey, Minnesota. |
030 September - October - 1990 | January 9, 2004 |
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Two more cooperative food distributors disappeared in 1991: Mountain Warehouse, a small operation formerly serving a large Southeast region -- that story is |
037 November - December - 1991 | January 9, 2004 |
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This edition's stories on the demise of two cooperative distributors, Mountain Warehouse and WholeFood Express, prompt some further reflections on the state of food cooperative retails and their co |
037 November - December - 1991 | January 9, 2004 |
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If each day is indeed Earth Day, we all must learn and relearn the new "Three Rs": reduce, reuse, recycle. |
028 May - June - 1990 | January 9, 2004 |
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Proposed rules requiring handicapped accessibility for retail businesses and public establishments of all types were announced in January 1991 by the U.S. |
033 March - April - 1991 | January 9, 2004 |
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For many of us, pursuing careers in cooperatives is a means of applying, through the institutions we build by our daily work, principles that evoke a world of social justice. |
033 March - April - 1991 | January 9, 2004 |
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The imminent forced sale of two major food co-ops -- Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley (C.C. |
018 August - September - 1988 | January 9, 2004 |
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101 July - August - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
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Redwood forests and food cooperatives: Near the westernmost point of California, these two seemingly unrelated systems impressed me in parallel ways while attending the Consumer Cooperativ |
101 July - August - 2002 | January 7, 2004 |
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This section presents material intended to help readers active in the leadership of their cooperative to design and argue for an improved member equity system. |
025 November - December - 1989 | January 9, 2004 |
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This is a time of ever increasing awareness of food safety and the environmental damage being wrought by the dominant economic powers and their step child, petro-based agribusiness. |
023 July - August - 1989 | January 9, 2004 |
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Many co-op leaders resist attempts to define a "co-op market." A survey that describes food co-op shoppers as young, well educated, nutrition conscious, and ecology oriented, would be rejected as e |
019 October - November - 1988 | January 9, 2004 |
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In Part 1, "Turning Points and Lessons," I discussed the decline of two major cooperatives -- the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley (C.C.B.) stores and DANCe (Distributing Alliance of the Northcoun |
019 October - November - 1988 | January 31, 2009 |
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I read a lot of co-op newsletters, and by a combination of scanning and close reading learn a lot from them. |
024 September - October - 1989 | January 9, 2004 |