by Dennis Salazar | Dec 9, 2008 | Sustainable Products
Image via Wikipedia The world of packaging is changing very rapidly and what was not green a year ago may be very sustainable today. A recent customer project has motivated me to do some research in an effort to update my knowledge base in this rarely used but usually...
by Dennis Salazar | Dec 4, 2008 | Sustainable Perspective
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Some fear that a rotten economy will spoil the green packaging movement. The thinking goes, if people must choose between saving the world and saving their business, they’ll save their business. That’s true. However, the...
by Dennis Salazar | Dec 2, 2008 | Sustainable Products
If you look at the label on the pictured Dole product, you see that it is “natural”. I doubt any of us really understand what natural means anymore, but at least in theory, it’s a good thing, right? Shoppers everywhere just like my wife seek and buy products that are...
by Dennis Salazar | Nov 25, 2008 | Sustainable Products
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I really wish that was not the case but it is. I have written and spoken on this topic numerous times but a recent reader response on this blog from Neil Hunter in the UK has motivated me to address it once again. I think we all hope...
by Dennis Salazar | Nov 18, 2008 | Sustainable Perspective
During my recent travels and conventioneering, I noticed that MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) firms are seriously underrepresented in the world of sustainability, especially when it comes to sustainability and MBE packaging firms. Here are a few cases in point....