It's hard for me to believe that the vision of Companiesandme is finally being unveiled today. That vision is to curate the rich stories of companies around us, and to bring us closer to the people behind them. As we unveil the site, I find myself completely inspired by the type of people who have taken the time to share their stories and engage in a real conversation with you. There aren't many places where...
Little was known about how food affected the body and the mind’s willingness and ability to learn when I was growing up. In 11th grade, I was allowed to have a coke in class to keep me awake and then fell asleep only to knock the coke on the floor. Since starting 18 Rabbits, I've searched for ways to serve our community in more direct ways than just giving money to a cause. When I...
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18 Rabbits
San Francisco, CA
What would the world be like if we all made an effort to create joy for others on a daily basis? One of the things I like best about my job is that our company has an actual mission around this idea. Our mission statement is literally "To create opportunities to celebrate the joy of life." Through our philanthropy program, Joie de Vivre Gives, we create ways to give back to San Francisco that I've...
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Joie de Vivre
San Francisco, CA
I see sustainability as getting back to our roots, to a simpler time when people mattered most; the land was treated with care; superior products were how you made a name for yourself; and doing the right thing in business, although sometimes more difficult, was just the way business was done. And we realize that we must always look ahead to the next challenge and see how we can turn that into an opportunity. We...
Reem Rahim
(Co-founder and Creative Director)
Posted over 2 years ago
How I fell into tea? Many people ask me how I got into tea. Actually, the question is not so much how did I get into tea but rather how I got into tea after getting into art after getting into engineering. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio after my family immigrated from Baghdad, Iraq when I was five. My father was a doctor who worked around the clock raising his children, putting them through...
Starting NUMI was a major decision beyond just starting a business; it was about lifestyle, place of living, the way the mind works, and many more intricacies that weren't even clear to me at that time. My sister and I had the idea in late 1998 on a trip our family took to the Grand Canyon, but I was still living on my farm in Europe and couldn't even imagine living in the US and...
Lori Hope
(Paper=Food Project Manager)
Posted over 2 years ago
Fame itself has never impressed me, maybe because in my career as a journalist I met so many "personalities". But when I meet someone exceedingly inspiring and generous, I have been known to get star struck – or, rather, "hero struck". It happened several years ago and again last week with Nell Newman, when we worked together shooting a video for Give Something Back and Boise Inc's Paper=Food initiative. P=F donates $1 to an area...
Local is not about buying the same stuff at higher prices from a local vendor. Local is about happiness. I believe that the concept of Local is not well communicated. When people suggest that we "buy local," it comes off as preachy and turns many of us off. How many times have you gone into a corner store and left feeling like you'd been ripped off? The $2 Coke or $1.50 orange may as well be...
I'm particularly interested in just how attached people are to the bags they carry -- men as well as women. From frumpsters to fashionistas, just about everyone has something to say about their bag -- how it looks, how it works, where they got it, and where they've been with it. It's also amazing how people personalize and embellish their bags with patches, pins, pens and bobbles. The bag is a remarkable blend of function,...
Although the more drawn out story of Linden Street Brewery has chapters in far flung parts of the globe, it is right here in our own backyard that the true gold was to be found---gold in the form of a long lost brewing tradition just begging to be unearthed and brought back to life. A golden glow, faded for nearly 50 years, that need only a little polishing and love to realize a new era...
