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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media
I learned from Matthew Yglesias that McDonalds is pulling out of Iceland, victims of that nation's currency collapse. The BBC has more: McDonald's i...
AP | GUDJON HELGASON and JANE WARDELL | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — The Big Mac, long a symbol of globalization, has become the latest victim of this tiny island nation's overexposure to the world financial crisis.
Iceland's three McDonald's restaurants – all in the capital Reykjavik – will close next weekend, as the franchise owner gives in to falling profits caused by the collapse in the Icelandic krona.
"The economic situation has just made it too expensive for us," Magnus Ogmundsson, the managing director of Lyst Hr., McDonald's franchise holder in Iceland, told the Associated Press by telephone on Monday.
Lyst was bound by McDonald's requirement that it import all the goods required for its restaurants – from packaging to meat and cheeses – from Germany.
Costs had doubled over the past year because of the fall in the krona and high import tariffs on imported goods, Ogmundsson said, making it impossible for the company to raise prices further and remain competitive with competitors that use locally sourced produce.
Bill Mann | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
If your boss catches you playing video games at work, now you can tell him you're not goofing off, you're raising money for a good cause.
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...
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living
7. Take the time to look people in the eye, say hello, goodbye, ask "How are you" ; listen to their answer and ask a question. Remember how to communicate with people again on a human face-to-face basis.
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?
Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
Saying McDonald's is ubiquitous in the United States isn't terribly newsworthy. But blogger Stephen Von Worley has creatively figured out the farthest...
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.
Inhabitat | Alexandra Kain | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green