Posts Tagged ‘ cardboard box ’

When Green Works As An Investment Opportunity

May 19th, 2008 | By admin | Category: News

Everyone is jumping into the Green trend. Not everyone is doing it right though. Adopting ecologically friendly initiatives cannot be just a marketing plot. This is what is called “greenwashing” and consumers see right through it. A company needs to be sincere in its approach. It is a fundamental component of the authenticity consumers are [...]



Fast Food Dude Taco Bell Thinks Big

May 6th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Foods

Taco Bell is thinking inside the box with its new 1,000-plus-calorie Big Bell Box ($4.99)
It comes with everything except some elastic-waist pants: the new Bacon Club Chalupa, a crunchy taco, bean burrito, Cinnamon Twists and a large soda.
In the olden days, buying these Taco Bell items individually would set you back about $7.
But then again, [...]



How would you like your guinea pig sir

Apr 7th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Travel

Machu Picchu may be one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, but it is really just a four-day schlepp up a big hill to watch the sunrise over a pile of rubble. The real reason to visit Peru is the food. While more athletic types huff and puff their way to high altitude [...]



Night train

Mar 5th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Travel

On the night train from Delhi to Kolkata, trying to persuade myself to sleep, I started to count the Indian railway journeys I’d made. I reached 100 or so and then gave up. So many journeys, so many early-morning cigarettes smoked over tea [...]



Chaos uncorked

Mar 4th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

If ever there were a piece of the Great Lakes you could call ruined, this is it - a shoreline poisoned for decades by raw sewage and manufacturing excrements such as cyanide, ammonia, oil and lead.
The wanton dumping from the mills, refineries and sewer pipes has been largely stanched, yet it remains a place forested [...]