Dave Gutknecht

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Dave Gutknecht has been editor of Cooperative Grocer magazine since its founding in 1985.

    Author's Articles

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    "We Live In A Political World"
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    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
    Disappearing Distributors
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    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
    Tax Deduction Supports Accessible Remodeling
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    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
    A Conversation With Mark Ritchie on Food and Co-ops
    BY Dave Gutknecht

     

    Bruce Bacon is a community activist and market gardener in Ramsey, Minnesota.

    		 030 September - October - 1990 January 9, 2004
    Co-ops and the Three R's
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    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
    Opportunity Knocks
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    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
    Cooperative Capital and Member Equity Systems: The Heart of Cooperatives
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    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
    Co-op as Gift
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    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
    Defining Your Market -- With a Response
    BY Robert Sommer, Dave Gutknecht

    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
    Development Directions
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    The imminent forced sale of two major food co-ops -- Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley (C.C.

    		 018 August - September - 1988 January 9, 2004
    Why Co-ops Die: An Exchange
    BY Robert Grott, Jesse Singerman, Dave Gutknecht

    Why Co-ops Die: An Historical Analysis

    By Robert Grott

    		 009 February - March - 1987 January 9, 2004
    Survival Issues
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    		 008 December - January - 1987 January 9, 2004
    Another Look at Member Labor
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    "Boon or Bane?" was the title question in a section on member labor in the first issue of Cooperative Grocer (October-November 1985).

    		 008 December - January - 1987 January 9, 2004
    The Co-op Difference and Capital
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    		 008 December - January - 1987 January 9, 2004
    Art Danforth
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Art Danforth died May 10, 1987, at the age of 74, after five decades of consumer cooperative activism and public service.

    		 011 June - July - 1987 January 9, 2004
    Stormy Weather in California
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    The past year has been a difficult one for Associated Cooperatives Inc. (ACI), the wholesale in Richmond, California, and for some of its member retail co-ops.

    		 004 April - May - 1986 January 9, 2004
    Editorial
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    		 135, March-April 2008 January 9, 2004
    Sales and Labor in 20 Retail Food Co-ops
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Introduction

    Having members of a retail food cooperative contribute labor toward the operation of their store is one of those practices that is wholly unnecessary or even undesirable in the

    		 001 October - November - 1985 January 9, 2004
    Hold the Cesium, Please! (It Won't be on the Label)
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    The disasters wrought by petrochemical farming are in the news, so much so that one forgets what happened only two years ago. And this forgetting, too, is part of the problem.

    		 001 October - November - 1985 January 9, 2004
    Local Co-ops Build National Presence
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    By late April, regional food co-op associations will decide whether to transfer their assets and primary identity to a restructured national organization.

    		 112 May - June - 2004 June 8, 2004