Tag: Cooperative Movement

  • Coop Helps Improve Environment

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    Some of you may have already heard of Fertile Ground out of Oklahoma. I feel like I’ve come across that name before. In any case the company came up in my news feed when an Oklahoma City station aired a segment about them. It seems the company that had been contracted by three local cities…

  • Principal Six Co-operative Trade Movement

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    I call on cooperatives as a sales representative for several fair trade companies.  I came across P6 for the first time this February so I found this article in the La Cross Tribune intriguing. The Principle Six (P6) Co-operative Trade Movement is an initiative created by cooperatives that promotes small farmers/producers, cooperative businesses and local…

  • Food For Change – A History of the Cooperative Movement in America

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    http://vimeo.com/76558337 Food For Change is a feature-length documentary film focusing on food co-ops as a force for dynamic social and economic change in American culture. The movie tells the story of the cooperative movement in the U.S. through interviews, rare archival footage, and commentary by the filmmaker and social historians. This is the first film…