Thursday, February 14, 2008

ChocolateBet: February 14, 2008


Chocolate of the Day:

1 serving
Baskin Robbins
"Made with Reeses" Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream
Very Good
Weight: 1/2 cup (73 g.)
Calories: 190 for 1/2 cup serving
Cost: $5.59
Purchased from: Baskin Robbins, Santa Clara, CA

Ate with Valentines dinner. Happy V'day all.

Chocolate in the News:
Also, here's an example of a story where business and social good and chocolate all intersect.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2008/02/enter_a_contest.html
Bruce Nussbaum (Business Week) talks about an (Architecture for Humanity) contest/challenge to build a factory and Internet hub for Kallari villages (cacao famers cooperative) in Ecuador, based on an AMD-sponsored dinner Nussbaum attended in Davos. The indigenous Kallari will use the new factory for - the production of organic chocolate, and the Internet hub to help to connect them to markets for this chocolate.

(Architecture for Humanity and AMD) Open Architecture Challenge youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_wQ1z9oy1M
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