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Buy a bottle of wine and donate clean water

Posted by Springwise in January 29th 2012

Some 42,000 people die each week for lack of clean water, and the majority of them are children under 5 years old. Aiming to help alleviate this problem, online wine vendor CellarThief don ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Food & Beverage, Non-profit, Social cause, Retail, wine

Coffee mug for mums that won’t scald tykes

Posted by Springwise in January 22nd 2012

Toddlers and young children are notorious for their desire to grab whatever might be dangerous for them, and hot beverages are no exception. In fact, some 100,000 children each year are s ...
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Tags: beverages, Food & Beverage, Style & Design

No secret recipes at open source restaurant

Posted by Springwise in January 18th 2012

Back in 2008 we wrote about Arne Hendriks's plan to create a crowdsourced restaurant in Amsterdam. As of December, the resulting eatery—called by its founders "the world's first open sou ...
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Chocolate with a conservation commitment

Posted by Springwise in January 2nd 2012

We've written about several food brands that provide consumers with detailed information on the sources and background of their jam, bananas, coffee and other foods. Now, a premium chocola ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: chocolate, chocolate bars, Confectionery, Eco & Sustainability, food, Food & Beverage

Urban fruit-picking project aims to minimize waste

Posted by Springwise in August 31st 2011

It's right about this time of year that those with fruit trees and gardens in the Northern Hemisphere tend to get overwhelmed by homegrown abundance. We've already featured Giapo Gelato's e ...
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Tags: Eco & Sustainability, Food & Beverage, fruit, Giapo Gelato

Handmade hives for backyard beekeeping

Posted by Springwise in August 3rd 2011

We've already seen one urban beekeeping kit for honey enthusiasts, and recently we came across a handmade variety that's designed with a particular focus on promoting the health of the bees ...
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Tags: beekeeping, Eco & Sustainability, Food & Beverage, Homes & Housing, honey, USD

Design your own custom-made beef jerky

Posted by Springwise in July 30th 2011

Rather than list all the products we've seen offered in customized form over the years, it's getting to the point now where we might be better off listing the ones we *haven't* seen served ...
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under: Creative Biz Ideas
Tags: Food & Beverage

In Paris, child-friendly café keeps kids entertained

Posted by Springwise in July 29th 2011

Most restaurants that claim to be “kid-friendly” walk a fine line between being *too* kid-friendly—and turning off parents in the process—and being not quite kid-friendly enough, si ...
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Tags: food, Food & Beverage, In Paris, Lifestyle & Leisure

Five new business ideas for urban gardening

Posted by Springwise in July 28th 2011

More than half of humanity now lives in cities, according to the United Nations Population Fund. This rapid and ongoing change presents a raft of new challenges, many of which create oppor ...
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Tags: Eco & Sustainability, entrepreneurs, food, Food & Beverage, Homes & Housing, new business ideas, Style & Design

Gardens for rent by the season, with vegetables pre-planted

Posted by Springwise in July 12th 2011

Allotments and community gardens have long been a refuge for gardenless city dwellers wanting to grow their own food. But for garden newbies, the commitment and work involved can be daunti ...
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Tags: Eco & Sustainability, food, Food & Beverage

Bar innovation enables sampling and display of high-end beers

Posted by Springwise in July 9th 2011

Beer connoisseurs like to try before they buy just as much as the next consumer; the only problem is that high-end bottles of the stuff can cost a pretty penny, making bartenders reluctant ...
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Tags: AUD, beer, Food & Beverage, making, UV

Vending machine rewards mental agility

Posted by Springwise in July 7th 2011

Hard on the heels of our story about the world's first smile-activated vending machine comes word of a similarly paradigm-busting innovation: a machine that dispenses free spring water drin ...
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Tags: Food & Beverage, Marketing & Advertising, Retail

Coffee roaster offers custom blends for continuous fundraising

Posted by Springwise in July 1st 2011

In most fundraising schemes, the group raising the money buys something to sell at a profit—wrapping paper, for example, or chocolate bars. California-based Newhall Coffee, however, now o ...
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Tags: chocolate, Food & Beverage, fundraising, Non-profit, Social cause, USD

Café creates NGO to ensure fair trade with coffee farmers

Posted by Springwise in June 30th 2011

Fair trade coffee is no longer uncommon; what's unusual about Canadian AGRO Café is that it went so far as to create its own NGO arm to make sure it serves only coffee that's ethically and ...
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Tags: Agro, coffee, Food & Beverage, NGO, Non-profit, Social cause

Unilever launches world’s first smile-activated ice cream vending machine

Posted by Springwise in June 27th 2011

While instantly gratifying, buying ice cream from a vending machine isn't as fun as it could be. Which is why SapientNitro and Unilever created the world's first smile-activated ice cream v ...
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Tags: Food & Beverage, Marketing & Advertising

Volunteer ‘mobs’ donate elbow grease to sustainable farms

Posted by Springwise in June 27th 2011

When we wrote about Australian Permablitz back in 2008, we were particularly taken by the instant urban-gardening gratification that could be achieved by the group's intense weekend “blit ...
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Tags: Crop Mobs, Eco & Sustainability, Food & Beverage, North Carolina, The Crop Mob

Bicycle-powered stand serves up coffee hot and cold

Posted by Springwise in June 22nd 2011

OK, so pedal-powered coffee retailers aren't entirely new—we saw one back in 2008 in the UK, after all—but we can't resist sharing one more, spotted this time on the streets of New York ...
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Tags: coffee, Eco & Sustainability, Food & Beverage, New York City, OK

App lets consumers open and pay a bar tab by phone

Posted by Springwise in June 20th 2011

The ability to pay for purchases by mobile phone may be common in some parts of the world, but it's by no means ubiquitous. Similar to the way RideCharge lets consumers book a taxi and pay ...
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Tags: Food & Beverage, Life Hacks, Telecom & Mobile

Television ad for muesli, shot and edited on iPhone 4

Posted by Springwise in June 15th 2011

While we usually feature companies when they launch, we love seeing their creativity develop and grow after that initial period. And we just spotted a fun example: the made-to-order muesli ...
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Tags: Food & Beverage, Marketing & Advertising, Netherlands, product, Switzerland, Telecom & Mobile, TV

Four inspiring alternatives to traditional restaurants

Posted by Springwise in June 15th 2011

Just as chefs are forever seeking out new ways to fill our bellies, the food industry shows a insatiable appetite for novel concepts, as can be seen in our food & beverage database. Her ...
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Tags: food, Food & Beverage, Paris, Retail

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