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Why Vegan Baker Anita Shepherd Loves Our Packaging

February 3, 2012

This week we are featuring our customer Anita Shepard, owner of Electric Blue, a Brooklyn, New York baking company. Anita is a chef and food writer for Bon Appetit Magazine and various food blogs. She is also a menu consultant for vegan and gluten-free options and has recently started a cooking video series. We are very [...]

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Made in the USA: It Matters!

January 20, 2012

An elevator door (at left) at Atlanta’s big Americasmart January 2012 gift show said a lot about just how important “Made in America” is becoming. This year the show opened up with a dedicated section of made in America products. There was a surprising array of high-quality gifts and apparel represented there, and the aisles [...]

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The Organic Nest Proves That Green is a Beautiful Color

August 5, 2011

Here in Music City we like to pride ourselves in saying “We were country when country wasn’t cool,” like the popular Barbara Mandrell song goes. This is also true about Nashville Wraps’ customer Debbie Foster but in a different way. Debbie was into organics long before organic products and organic farming was ever cool. Her [...]

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Cut your electric bill in half

June 24, 2011

I was able to save 1700 kwh (kilowatt hours) off last month’s electric bill, cutting my bill in half – and here is how I did it. While this may not have direct bearing on packaging supplies, it may give you ideas for saving energy at your business or home.

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A Bed and Breakfast Story that Ends with the Love of Chocolate

May 16, 2011

Owning a bed and breakfast was a dream of Nashville Wraps customers’ Mark and Kim LaPolla. While working in the computer industry in California, they began searching online for B&B’s and discovered Greenville Arms 1889 Inn located outside of Albany, New York. They fell in love with it and purchased it in 2004.

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Reusable Bag Update – Plastic vs. Cotton Bags

May 2, 2011

Every time I go to the grocery I take an impromptu poll on people that bring their reusable grocery bags. It’s about 20% now at Publix depending on which clerk you ask. Last year it was 15%. Remember when activist groups were freaking out over “billions of plastic bags”? So now we have billions of [...]

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I don’t like Earth Day.

April 22, 2011

Yes, it’s official: I don’t like Earth Day! And it’s for the same reasons that I don’t like Easter, Valentine’s Day or Thanksgiving either. What a cynic, you say! You may be right, but read more to find out why. Leading up to Earth Day I usually get a ton of spam announcing someone’s Earth [...]

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Green Washing at Nashville Wraps?

February 7, 2011

Can you save 15% on car insurance… Is green washing at Nashville Wraps hard to believe? You betcha! Recently a comment came to my attention that posed an interesting question, basically the comment was “how is it that Nashville Wraps is the “Leader in Eco-Friendly Packaging” but you mail catalogs in a plastic bag? I [...]

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When we ban plastic bags.

January 31, 2011

A few years ago that strong, thin and sort of crinkly plastic was thought to be a modern miracle product; now it seems to be the poster child for all the undesirable elements of our disposable society in general. Many would like to see us change… and we should.

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Nashville Wraps Customer Spotlight: Peas for Prosperity

November 24, 2010

Smart people turn their lemons into lemonade, but this Atlanta entrepreneur-philanthropist turned her lemons into a small business selling black-eyed peas.

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