Author:  Michael Healy Why does the work of measuring the co-op's accomplishments and telling the co-op's story matter? Cooperative enterprises build a better world. This tagline for the 2012 International Year of Cooperatives says so much with so few words. These few words can lead us to ask many compelling questions, among them: What does that better world look like? How will we know if we're getting there? How do we tell the story of the world we're ...

TWO Early Day motions backing the Co-operative Group's stance on genetically modified crops have attracted the support of over 40 MPs. A motion welcoming the Group's announcement that it is to ban GM food and ingredients from its stores and calling on other food producers and retailers to follow the Co-op's example was tabled by Mike Weir, SNP MP for Angus. Within a few days it had been signed by 14 members including representatives of the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish and ...

NINETEEN Co-op MPs claimed to be "supporters of an illegal war in Iraq" have been listed on a left-wing website aimed at removing Tony Blair as Prime Minister. The anti-Blair website, backed by a large national newspaper advertisement, says the Government's support for what it calls a corrupt and unelected US President is a military blunder worse than Suez and a moral disaster comparable to Munich.

THE Co-operative Group has joined forces with the Consumers' Association, Greenpeace and Unilever to launch an eight -week independent GM citizens' jury to help shape the Government's decision over the commercialisation of genetically modified crops in the UK. In a unique consultation exercise, there will be 30 jury members, split into two groups - in Newcastle and St Albans - who have been chosen from a mix of social backgrounds, ages, ethnic groups and genders.