Food

Linking the Global and the Local: Seikatsu's Vision

Ethan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:47:50 -0400

By Yvonne Poirier

Editors' note: Yvon Poirier is an editor of the International Newsletter on Sustainable Local Development, from which this article is copied. The Japanese Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-Operative Union was the subject of both the spring and summer issues of GEO (#s 12 and 13) in 1994. Seikatsu has grown since then to include 290,000 households. It is notable for its combination of worker and consumer co-ops, its insistence on high food quality, and for its direct involvement in local politics in the Tokyo area. Yvon comments that the current conservative government is doing all it can to undermine co-ops and other similar sectors.

The People's Grocery: Developing a Worker-Owned Community Grocery Store

Ethan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:58:16 -0500

People's Grocery is making speedy progress from a mobile organic food service cooperative towards developing a worker-owned cooperative grocery store in West Oakland in which local food and sustainable agriculture will be prioritized in a community health model centered on nutrition education for low-income residents of the community. At the same time, the cooperative is taking their business development goal beyond the single cooperative grocery store to a broader community development initiative focused on establishing a commercial and health service complex.

Glean The Planet: Mapping & Sharing Free Food

Ethan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:41:37 -0500

www.gleantheplanet.com

Harmony Agricultural Cooperative Fights Exclusion In Brazil

Ethan — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:37:09 -0500

By Mario Osava, www.ipsnews.net

What Will We Eat When the Oil Runs Out?

Ethan — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:55:24 -0500

By Richard Heinberg, for Global Public Media