Fast food packaging takes up a hefty chunk of our landfill space while effectively clear-cutting our forests. Seeking to counter this consumptive cycl...
AP | MARY MacPHERSON LANE | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green
BERLIN — McDonald's is going green – swapping its traditional red backdrop for a deep hunter green – to promote a more eco-friendly ...
AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Danish Modern furniture. Flat-screen TVs. Free Wi-Fi. You want fries with that?...
Ellen Kanner | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
As if Bjork isn't enough, there's another reason to love Iceland -- now it's the land without McDonald's. The franchise shuttered last month not as a...
ABC News | Posted 11.13.2009 | World
The world's largest fast-food chain is looking for an assistant manager at its franchise at the U.S. Naval Base -- in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. ...
nytimes.com | REUTERS | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz said McDonald's Corp's McCafe launch earlier this year made the cafe chain better....
Grist | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green
In other words, the more you make, the more calories you're getting from fast food, which has in turn gotten cheaper thanks to a falling real minimum ...
Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports
Many athletes devote themselves to strict diets, but some are more peculiar than others. From candy to Mountain Dew to McDonald's, we've compiled the ...
Reuters | Omar Valdimarsson | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
Thousands of Icelanders lined up at McDonald's restaurants to order their last Big Macs before the U.S. fast-food chain abandons the crisis-hit island...
Jenny Darroch | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
McDonald's has pulled out of Iceland.The decision is a combination of rising costs and the inability to hike prices a further 20% to recoup losses.
Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact
John D. Rockefeller Jr. said to "think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege." Several major international corporations are trying to follow that...
Richard Valeriani | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize. Shock and awe or shocking and awful? Also, NASA sends two rockets to explode on moon. Luckily, the moon does not fire back.
Richard Valeriani | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
President Obama wins Nobel Prize. Shock and Awe or Shocking and Awful? And NASA sends two rockets to explode on moon. Luckily, moon did not fire back.
AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
PARIS — French culture and American convenience will come together in December – thanks to plans by the McDonald's restaurant chain to han...
AP | ELAINE GANLEY | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
PARIS — French culture and American convenience will come together in December – thanks to plans by the McDonald's restaurant chain to han...
AP | GRAHAM DUNBAR | Posted 10.04.2009 | Chicago
COPENHAGEN — The International Olympic Committee's marketing boss believes Chicago's rejection by Olympic voters will not affect the status of I...
Anne Z. Boxer | Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver
I am boycotting Whole Foods to remind myself that we each need to make sacrifices to remember what is important. But who knew that an English muffin would require me to temporarily end my boycott?
Franny Armstrong | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
If you have a burning idea you need to communicate -- uncensored -- with maximum possible emotional punch and a potential audience of tens of millions, a doc's the way to go.
Claire Walter | Posted 11.13.2009 | Denver
McDonald's is promoting its new Angus Third Pounder via a tenuous tie-in with public transportation systems in eight U.S. cities, including Denver. Problem is, their Chicago agency got its Denver facts wrong.
Linda Buzzell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Trick question: if Monsanto or a coal company put up a few solar panels on the roof of their corporate headquarters, would that get them certified as "green"?
Dr. Eric Braverman | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Be wary of a $5 fast food deal. What's cost effective now might be incredibly expensive to deal with in the future, just in health care dollars alone.
Amanda Christine Miller | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style
An exciting new venue raises the question: Is the traditional runway format still relevant?
Lisa Guest | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
So what if you think a burger tastes good? Wake up. You also thought smoking couldn't kill you.
AP | By JULIA ZAPPEI | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
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environmentalleader.com | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
McDonald's pilot "green" restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, is estimated to use 25 percent less energy than a traditional McDonald's restaurant, reporte...
Inhabitat | Alexandra Kain | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green