135 March - April - 2008
Issue's Articles
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 From rural Indiana to Japan, from Indonesia to Puget Sound, cooperatives are providing answers and a way forward in an environment of increasing challenges.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 24, 2008 | 
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 Changes to POS systems are inevitably stressful, as Liz McMann notes in her article.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 24, 2008 | 
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 Currently, national media is focused on those large organic dairies that have flouted the integrity of the organic regulations (see “Cornucopia’s Complaints Expose Outlaw Dairy Farms,” CG  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 24, 2008 | 
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 November 30, 2007: more than 50 people met in La Farge, Wisconsin, to participate in the founding meeting of the Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA).  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 24, 2008 | 
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 The Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) thanks cooperatives and co-op members for their generosity this year in contributing to both the Howard Bowers Fund for Consu  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 24, 2008 | 
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 Cooperative grocers take pride in the fact that they’ve supported local, sustainable farmers for more than three decades-long before it was the trendy thing to do.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 23, 2008 | 
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 When a food co-op builds or remodels its own home, the project rivets the attention and scrutiny of its neighborhood.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 23, 2008 | 
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 Of the “cooperative commonwealths” in the world there is none so prevalent in a nation’s daily life as the cooperatives of Japan.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 22, 2008 | 
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 This article contains charts not pictured. You can download the pdf version with charts here.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 22, 2008 | 
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 As editor, it’s a pleasure to review some of the good news contained in the magazine, and that is what “The Editor Notes” column on page 3 will do.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 22, 2008 | 
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 The Skagit Valley Food Co-op began in 1973 as a buying club in the basement of a local church.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 22, 2008 | 
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 In the scale of stressful life events, installing a new point of sale (POS) system ranks right up there with marriage and having a baby.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 22, 2008 | 
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 Paoli, Indiana is a rural community of fewer than 4,000 residents, located 50 miles south of Bloomington (home to the Bloomingfoods Co-op) and 50 miles west of Louisville, Kentucky.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 22, 2008 | 
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 The aftermath of the Aurora Organic Dairy investigation has left many supporters of organics feeling confused and betrayed.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 22, 2008 | 
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 Chicago’s Co-op Markets, known historically as Hyde Park Co-op, closed in late January 2008 after operating since 1932.  | 
                      135 March - April - 2008 | April 22, 2008 | 
