Posts in the "Cooperatives" Category

  • 2012 is the UN’s International Year of Cooperatives

    Cooperatives

    2012 is the UN’s International Year of Cooperatives I’ve been involved in the food coop movement (http://www.go.coop ) since the late 70s when I was a young freelancer writer and joined the 16th St. Food Coop in the Midwood section of Brooklyn (now evolved into the Flatbush Food Coop in Ditmas Park), beginning the long [...]

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  • Medical Co-ops are in the Spotlight

    Cooperatives

    itsawonderfullife

    Back when I was a struggling freelance writer in my 20s, I moved into the Midwood area of Brooklyn where a budding new food coop had just opened a storefront. In those days, I was single and still emulating the lifestyle of my hard-drinking journalist friends. Amazingly, as I got involved in the 16th Street Food Coop and eventually was elected to the Board, I found my new friends had me eating organic foods and drinking water and juices, not beer and tequila.

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