145 November - December - 2009

Issue Number:

145

Issue Months:

November - December

Issue Year:

2 009

Issue's Articles

Title	Issue	Date
Building a Cooperative Base and Future BY Dave Gutknecht These may actually be good circumstances for cooperatives.	145 November - December - 2009	January 5, 2010
More on Payment Card Security Compliance BY Tak Tang All merchants, including consumer cooperatives, must and should meet the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) if they wish to a	145 November - December - 2009	November 19, 2009
Organic Advocates Optimistic About New Appointments BY Mari Roseman Along with new members of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the National Cooperative Grocers Association and its partners in the National Organic Coalition (	145 November - December - 2009	November 19, 2009
Menus Get the Message Out BY Julie Cross The Davis (Calif.) Food Co-op has long held a strategy of winning by becoming the “authority on everything.” We’ve spent literally years cultivating that strategy, answering countless peculiar phon	145 November - December - 2009	November 19, 2009
Common Ground Food Co-op BY Jacqueline Hannah In the fall of 2007, an envelope landed on my desk at Common Ground Food Co-op (Champaign-Urbana, Ill.).	145 November - December - 2009	November 19, 2009
Organic Advocates Optimistic About New Appointments BY Mari Roseman Along with new members of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the National Cooperative Grocers Association and its partners in the National Organic Coalition (	145 November - December - 2009	November 19, 2009
Asking Powerful Questions BY Thane Joyal “A vital question, a creative question, rivets our attention. All the creative power of our minds is focused on the question. Knowledge emerges in response to these compelling questions.	145 November - December - 2009	November 19, 2009
Bringing Low-Income Shoppers into the Co-op BY Clem Nilan Once upon a time in Burlington, Vt., on the shores of Lake Champlain, the downtown grocery store went belly up.	145 November - December - 2009	November 19, 2009
Tipping the Scales for Local Foods BY Ken Meter Food co-ops play a pivotal role in nearly every local foods initiative I work with; they have been doing so for 40 years.	145 November - December - 2009	November 19, 2009
Michael Moore on Co-ops, Paul Hazen on Public Policy BY Dave Gutknecht Workplace democracy and worker-owned cooperatives are strongly recommended in Michael Moore’s latest documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” One such business, Alvarado Street Bakery, is highlight	145 November - December - 2009	November 19, 2009
Certified Organic Personal Care Recommended BY Dave Gutknecht In September, the cause of extending organic certification standards to personal care items—soaps, lotions, and the like—got a significant boost from the Certification, Accreditation, and Complianc	145 November - December - 2009	November 18, 2009