A group of western Queens residents are bringing the motto "will work for food" to life.

Fed up with the dearth of inexpensive local produce in their neighborhoods, they're creating the borough's only food cooperative in Long Island City.

Their goal is to have the Queens Harvest Food Co-op up and running on member labor by the fall of 2011.

How did your great grandparents ever figure out what to eat? Long before nutrition scientists began studying food, long before marketers began advertising food and long before the author Michael Pollan started writing about food, people, somehow, managed to eat more healthfully than they do now.

A North Dakota rural electric cooperative made history on New Year’s Eve, in completing the nation’s largest wind project to be entirely owned by a consumer cooperative.

The $240 million, 115.5 MW wind farm was begun in August and completed a mere four months later; three and a half hours before midnight on the last night of 2009. GE supplied the 77 1.5 MW turbines.

By Judith D. Schwartz, Time Magazine 12/22/2009

How healthy (or not) certain foods are—for us, for the environment—is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked them one simple question—“What foods do you avoid?”—we got some pretty interesting answers.