Sara Kerr

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Lover of Snow, Winter Vacations, Good Beer & Great Music, Minnesota Weather, French Wine & Sidewalks. Yogi for life.

Month: June 2011

  • Another take on Packaging: Tom’s of Maine Laminate Toothpaste Tubes

    I noticed another change the other day. My toothpaste now comes in plastic tubes. Stop the Presses! Yes, I know that if you use Crest or Colgate, this is nothing new. But for years, Tom’s of Maine packaged their paste in recyclable aluminum. The problem? While it might have been a good idea at its…

  • The Power of Packaging: Where did my Hershey Bar go?

    Maybe it doesn’t matter to  you, but to me it does. Where is my foil lining? Where is my paper wrapper? Where is the Hershey bar I grew up with? Saturday night we celebrated lakeside with a bonfire and s’mores. Six lovely chocolate bars wrapped in a cellophane package. Each chocolate bar wrapped in printed…

  • @Unsummit 2011 – Saturday, June 18th, at CoCo in Downtown St. Paul

    Get your tickets now — it’s FREE! What is the UnSummit? UnSummit is an alternative, “unconference,” not unlike a BarCamp. That means full participation, full dissemination and free admission — all the things that traditional conferences are not. Unsummit was conceived by Don Ball of Polymer Studios in October 2008 as an alternative to the…