Daniel Lubetzky

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An interesting article here describes Sweden’s experiment with climate change impact labels on food items – including on restaurant menus and grocery item labels.  The effort to educate consumers about the environmental impact of their food consumption sometimes clashes with nutritional advice – ie, avoid tomatoes because grown in greenhouses – and sometimes is aligned [...]

Enough with such manipulation by the food-industrial-complex!  First Coca-Cola asserts that Coke is all natural! Then the Corn Refiners assert that High Fructose Corn Syrup is all natural, without regard to evidence, or to the damage that this causes to our bodies.  And most recently 10 of the largest food companies create a self-serving industry-designed [...]

Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust presents: Tuesday, November 17, 7 P.M. Making Money and Doing Good Moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times Daniel Lubetzky, Kind Inc. and PeaceWorks Foundation/OneVoice Movement; Nancy Lublin, Dress For Success and Do Something; and Barry Nalebuff, Honest Tea The news has [...]

Over the last several weeks I have been reading a Sunday NYT Business column that I find to be consistently useful for my professional growth: http://projects.nytimes.com/corner-office The columnist asks CEOs from diverse companies about their lessons in leadership and management and synthesizes them into concise interview pieces that are quite insightful. About Corner Office Corner [...]

I was forwarded this really cool note from a KIND consumer that reached out to us regarding the KINDED movement… Name: Melissa [last name removed] E-mail: [removed] Telephone: Comment: Hello KIND team, I happened to discover your "KINDED" card movement through my on-line subscription to "Springwise". It is an amazing way to encourage everyone (especially [...]

This article provides some proof that, Putin’s KGBesque bravado aside, Russia’s economy is a house of cards waiting to fall. October 17, 2009 Op-Ed Contributor Darkness on the Edge of Monotown By LEON ARON Washington VIEWED from the outside, things have been going quite well for Russia recently. The United States has scrapped, at least [...]

Interesting… Japan : The  Ukita family of Kodaira City Food expenditure for one week: 37,699 Yen or  $317.25 Italy: The Manzo  family of Sicily Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or  $260.11 Germany: The  Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39  Euros or $500.07 United States:  The Revis family of North [...]

Interesting article about fiber…. http://www.foodbusinessnews.net/news/newsfinder.asp? &Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=2414&docId=l:1055514154&topicId=100011229&start=16&topics=single Copyright 2009 Sentinel Communications Co. Orlando Sentinel (Florida) October 13, 2009 Tuesday FINAL HEALTH & FITNESS; FLORIDA; Pg. D1 Fiber, fiber everywhere Does fortification craze meet your nutrition needs?   Janet Helm, Special to Tribune Newspapers   Your mother called it roughage, and prunes were once the poster child. [...]