Ethiopian coffee growers are looking at green innovation to grow their business. Aid agency Oxfam International is sponsoring a project to help coffee growers in one region of Ethiopia use more sustainable growing methods, teaching environmentally-friendly processing to reduce waste and cut water usage by 98.5 percent. That’s welcome news of hope for coffee growers,…
When I was a kid, if we wanted to find out what new fall TV shows the networks were launching, we picked up a copy of TV Guide Magazine. Now the networks need to be a little more creative to get the word out to viewers. One of the most innovative marketing technologies is making…
As I was catching up on news and world events this morning one story caught my eye about a company that has come up with an innovative way to raise awareness about swine flu: a video game! Dutch researchers say their game challenges players to control the flu. Here is a snippet from the Associated…
Imagine a shopping bag made not of paper or plastic, but crushed stone. A new material innovation is being touted as treeless paper, and it is being manufactured in Taiwan and sold under the TerraSkin brand. I’m familiar with the product and was interested to see this week’s Business Week article about TerraSkin, which you…
Today’s blog is a blog of a blog! Seriously, I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately about the economy and how businesses can strategize around their outsourcing efforts: How to make those decisions sound, get them set up correctly and and make the most of those partnerships. So I put together a blog-like article…
Here’s a trend that that continues to shape the blogosphere: Moms talking to moms. Mommy-bloggers are proving to be quite influential with their readers. In fact recently at the fifth annual Blog-Her conference in Chicago, more than 1,500 people attended the conference, a mere fraction of the tens of thousands of women who blog. Among…
