Endcap Articles
Issue's Articles
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Pauline Green, president of the International Cooperative Alliance, in early January released a message about the International Year of Cooperatives. |
Endcap Articles | January 8, 2012 |
Canada’s co-ops certainly are leaders in North American cooperative circles. One-third of all its citizens are members of one of Canada’s credit unions. |
Endcap Articles | May 31, 2012 |
Endcap Articles | July 14, 2012 | |
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 |
The nine-month “fix” in the farm bill is worse than nothing. With the last-minute approval of this compromise, largely without debate, we lost relatively inexpensive yet essential support for orga |
Endcap Articles | January 21, 2013 |
Author Wendell Berry gave the following brief but profound observations at "The Future of Food," a conference sponsored by the Washington Post.
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Endcap Articles | May 9, 2011 |
An excellent summary of organizations and ideas that are contributing to a new economy – based on cooperatives, wealth sharing, and conservation of resources – appears in both The Nation (June 13, 201 |
Endcap Articles | May 31, 2011 |
The Co-operative Group, the U.K. |
Endcap Articles | May 25, 2011 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
[Originally published in "RootStock," Spring-Summer 2009] |
Endcap Articles | November 20, 2010 |
[“Rootstock” Part 3: 2009, unpublished]
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Endcap Articles | November 20, 2010 |
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 |
Updating the story on food safety legislation. |
Endcap Articles | January 5, 2011 |
Tom Philpot at Grist, www.grist.org, continues to contribute excellent reporting on food and pharm corporations.
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Endcap Articles | December 13, 2010 |
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 |
IOWA CITY, IOWA (Jan. |
Endcap Articles | February 1, 2011 |
Even if you missed recent key conferences on organics, you can get audio recordings of the many valuable speakers and workshop discussions.
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Endcap Articles | March 4, 2011 |
The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture is urging immediate pressure on U.S. Senators to prevent deep cuts to funding of programs for organic and sustainable farming and food production.
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Endcap Articles | March 4, 2011 |