May 17, 2008
Just out of curiosity, I typed "whole food" into my search engine the other day. I was careful to use lower case, no caps. I'm dyslexic, and I've depended on the fact that the postal system is always somehow able to deliver my mail, even when I've misspelled names, left...
Olivia Zaleski | Posted April 14, 2008 | Living
Starting this April 22nd, Earth Day, Whole Foods will up the ante. The leading natural and organic food supplier will ban the complimentary distribution of plastic bags in all 270 of its locations worldwide. Applause, applause, applause!
Though reusable bags will remain available for purchase, Whole Foods will encourage...
John K. Wilson | Posted April 14, 2008 | Off The Bus
Today on ABC's This Week, George Will denounced Barack Obama as an "elitist" and then told an outright lie about Obama, claiming that Obama had tried to "commiserate" with Iowans about high food prices by citing the price of Arugula at Whole Foods. Will observed mockingly that there are no...
Today on ABC's This Week, George Will denounced Barack Obama as an "elitist" and then told an outright lie about Obama, claiming that Obama had tried to "commiserate" with Iowans about high food prices by citing the price of Arugula at Whole Foods. Will observed mockingly that there are no...
Dennis Whittle | Posted March 25, 2008 | Living
"No way I am going to charge people $10.50 a pound."
Lauren Fornes | Posted March 18, 2008 | Living
By way of a quick introduction, my name is Lauren Fornes. I'm new to (and excited to be apart of) The Huffington Post blogging community. I'm an aesthetician and founder of Face Parlour, a skin health website. By day, I rate skincare products (think "Wine Spectator of skincare"). By...
Stacy Malkan | Posted March 13, 2008 | Living
The beauty industry is sitting not-too-pretty after a wave of toxic scandals: lead-containing lipstick, 1,4 dioxane in kids' bubble bath, phthalates in baby shampoo, to name just a few. Several states are now pushing for greater control over the virtually unregulated $50-billion industry. Two bills just...
Olivia Zaleski | Posted January 27, 2008 | Living
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom started the fire. In March of 2007, Newsom passed the nation's first plastic bag ban outlawing San Fran's supermarkets and large retailers from offering customers non-biodegradable plastic bags.
Though Germany, South Africa Ireland, Norway and Australia have long imposed restrictions on bag use,...
USA Today | Bruce Horovitz | January 22, 2008 12:46 PM
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Robin Wilson | Posted November 16, 2007 | Living
So, you pick up The New York Times and read a story that talks about purported "green" products, such as clothing, that sell at a premium. Yet, when independently tested the products come up short on the reality of the claims...like, that organic seaweed shirt is no different from a...
Reuters | November 7, 2007 01:39 PM
Karen Kisslinger | Posted November 6, 2007 | Living
This week I heard three separate news stories that made me think that, as a populace, Americans are being treated as infantile helpless indulgents by some data sources. The first was about a report on airline safety. The person interviewed basically said that the situation and the number of "near...
AP | October 24, 2007 03:14 PM
Dov Seidman | Posted October 16, 2007 | Business
Three months ago, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey revealed in a company FTC filing that from 1999 to mid-2006, he participated in an online stock discussion board under a pseudonym. During that time, according to the company's admission, he made some strong and, some might say, disparaging, comments about Whole...
On Tuesday night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert had fun with...
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The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
George W. Bush is unworthy of the presidency. He is a disgrace to himself,...
Mark Strausman | Posted April 27, 2008 | Living