Coop is a Swiss cooperative which operates the second largest supermarket chain in Switzerland after Migros. In 2001, Coop merged with 11 cooperative federations which had been its main suppliers for over 100 years.As of 2005, Coop operates 1437 shops and employs almost 45,000 people. According to Bio Suisse, the Swiss organic producers' association, Coop accounts for half of all the organic food sold in Switzerland. Coop's four primary organic brands are Coop Oecoplan, Coop Naturaline, Coop Naturaplan, and Max Havelaar.Coop publishes a weekly magazine called Coopzeitung (in German), Coopération (in French) and Cooperazione (in Italian).

Seeing that most of us eat from 2-3 times per day, everyday, investigating the carbon cost of our food will help you save a lot of emissions from polluting the atmosphere and lessen your personal impact on the planet. It's easy to find local organic food. Try going to a farmer's market, local CSA or Co-Op. Eat less or no meat, too.

A political leaning is not so much a calculated rationale, but an aesthetic statement. This article questions the dogmatically touted environmental benefits of organic, free-trade and small farm food. In so doing, it implies that the green movement is just another fad, food co-ops, fair-trade labels and the high prices they commands, it's totems.

Myth: Beauty products sold as “natural” and “organic” at health food stores and coops are truly natural and organic.Facts: Some natural, organic beauty products are exactly what they claim to be; however, many of the trusted brands featured in health food stores and coops contain harmful ingredients and/or are not 100% natural.

If you were an environmentally conscious American shopper just a few years ago and lived outside the orbit of health-food stores, farmers’ markets, and coops, you had to search high and low for goods that would pass muster as “organic.” Today, though, with heightened awareness of the health-enhancing or health-damaging effects of food, many more fo

Sure the produce might be... but what about the way it is handled in the store? OB People's Food Co-op in San Diego has just received CCOF organic certification, and it is a rigorous process indeed.