Daniel Lubetzky

The holy grail for environmentally conscious manufacturers and consumers is truly bio-degradable effective packaging.  While the biggest threat is in plastic bottles and packaging materials that overwhelm our landfills, even small wrappers add up. The challenge to manufacturers is that the very things that make wrappers good – impermeability, sealing out oxygen to prevent oxidation [...]

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Check this out for confirmation of the human potential of the most unassuming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

There are some people in the world that you are just grateful for them being around.  Jeff Skoll is one of them.  He is the most unassuming, down-to-earth, self-effacing guy, and at the same time among the most accomplished, brilliant, strategic, successful and deeply committed to make this a better world. I have been following [...]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb highlights the dangerous (and inequitable) way the US Government and other countries have handled the recent abuses that brought out the financial crisis: 2. No socialisation of losses and privatisation of gains. Whatever may need to be bailed out should be nationalised; whatever does not need a bail-out should be free, small [...]

Check out the below! A while back I blogged about a hilarious controversy pitting two churches against each other – on the question whether Dogs go to heaven.  Each affirmed they did – or didn’t – in church signs.  I actually thought these were real – and I guess a few commentators did also. Well, [...]

We are honored that BusinessWeek chose PeaceWorks among 25 of "America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs." If you like what we do, we’d appreciate you voting here for us – PeaceWorks Holdings – as the top 5 will be featured in the magazine. http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0403_social_entrepreneurs/19.htm Peaceworks Holdings peaceworks.com Daniel Lubetzky, 40 New York, N.Y. Can joint business [...]

In another sign that our society is going to have a reckoning if we don’t alter our diet and start eating healthier more wholesome foods, an alarming study shows that 20% of toddlers are obese. Study: One in five 4-year-olds is obese Obesity rates highest among American Indians, lowest among Asians (Foodbusinessnews.net, April 08, 2009) [...]

We are so humbled and honored that, following his meeting with our young Israeli and Palestinian leaders in OneVoice, and following his further learning on our movement over the last few months, including the leadership of our colleagues in OneVoice Europe, Paul McCartney agreed to join the OneVoice Movement’s International Honorary Board. Sample story follows…. [...]

Stuart Elliot covered a very creative campaign by, gulp, ConAgra Foods, with their Healthy Choice line.  Never mind that it may be an oxymoron to brand a frozen meal line, "Healthy Choice", but they found a way to use humor to attract consumers.  Julia Louis-Dreyfus appears in ads that are like skits of her actually [...]