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Cross-sector Co-op Meetings by Region
By Madeline Kastler and Peter Frank Cooperatives are diverse enterprises: natural food grocery stores, farmers jointly marketing their products, electricity providers in rural communities, financial...
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Innovation of Cooperative Innovation
Think of all the years that you relied upon having an ATM card. While we can now use our debit “atm” cards as credit cards and for many that supplants the need to withdraw cash from an automated...
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Measure it!
By Adam Schwartz, The Cooperative Way Welcome to another step in re-energizing the cooperative culture in your co-op. I say, “Another” because while this is often listed as the fourth step after...
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G-20 & B-20 Summits v. a Coop-20 Summit
Take an earnest look at the condition of our society and the world. The inequality of wealth & control, the social ills, and environment degradation are readily apparent. It’s not hard to recognize...
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Addressing the “it’s not really a co-op” problem
A question pops up all too often in the world of co-ops: when is a co-op not really a co-op? This is a long-running, nagging question that reared its ugly ahead again the other night. Friday I...
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When the media isn’t there, you can count on Exxon.
When the media isn’t there, you can count on Exxon. I am utterly amazed that with as much attention is paid to the potential Keystone XL pipeline, that there was virtually no major media outlet...
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Small Business Reality — An Informal Study of Baton Rouge Businesses
The following is the April 23, 2013 Facebook post and conversation that followed initiated by Erin Rice, who teaches business classes at a college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The “informalness” of the...
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Community Development Cooperatives
The following is article by Lee Egerstrom, a Economic Development Fellow with Minnesota 2020. Lee is, amongst other activities, sits on the Advisory Council for Co-Minnesota, a regional cross-sectoral...
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Poor Choice Of Words? The Mismatch Between Growth Goals And Co-operative Values
I have had the pleasure in recent months to attend a few conference on the social economy and co-operatives. At both conference, I have heard advocates of social responsibility and economic justice...
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The Way of the Future
The following is an article from the Wisconsin State Journal. The transformation of a individually owed area-dependent business in a community-owed cooperative will be one of the most important methods...
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