See the World’s Beloved Destinations—After Climate Change Advertisers have a way of turning most any product into a presentable pitch, but that'll soon prove challenging for those in the travel industry as worsening climate change turns the world's most beautiful destinations into scenes from the apocalypse. That's the pitch for the new social campaign created
Ford Is Making Car Parts From the Skin of McDonald’s Coffee Beans In a new partnership with McDonald's, Ford is using coffee chaff--the dried coffee bean skin that comes off during roasting--to build car parts. The United States produces around 1 million pounds of coffee chaff per week, according to Debbie Mielewski, Ford's senior technical
NYC Marathon Runners Have a New, Natural Way to Cool Off Tal Chitayat noticed the waste for the first time about two miles into Manhattan. Running the New York City Marathon last year, he had already trod through Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens and was coming up on Mile 17. Only nine more miles to
KLM Future-Proofs Itself Through Sustainability Efforts and by Digitizing KLM might be the "world's oldest airline," but judging from its digital presence, you wouldn't know that. The company prefers to have a first-mover advantage when it comes to testing out new apps and technologies. Two years ago, it proclaimed to be the "first airline" with
30,000 Toy Cars Illustrate How Mass Transit Could Dramatically Reduce Traffic Most things look cuter when they're in miniature, but does that still apply to something like thousands of cars stuck in gridlock? A new ad campaign for Swedish public transit service V?sttrafik turns toy cars into an imposing illustration of the 30,000 vehicles that
Norwegian Cruise Line Is Ditching Plastic Water Bottles Like the plastic straws and disposable chopsticks that were metaphorically tossed overboard, Norwegian Cruise Line has its sights on its next target: plastic water bottles. The Norwegian Encore, which sets sail in November, will be Norwegian's first to eliminate single-use plastic water bottles at sea, the company
This ‘Climate Pen,’ With Ink Made From Carbon Dioxide, Was Just Given to World Leaders This story is part of a weeklong series on climate change and sustainability. It's in partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global journalism initiative to cover climate change in the week leading up to the U.N. summit on climate change
This Ad’s Epic Search for Habitable Planets Reminds Us What We Take for Granted This story is part of a week-long series on climate change and sustainability. It's in partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global journalism initiative to cover climate change in the week leading up to the U.N. Summit on climate change in
Marriott, the World’s Largest Hotel Chain, Evicts Mini Toiletries The small bottles of toiletries know by leisure and business travelers alike are one step closer to becoming extinct as Marriott International, the world's largest hotel chain, announced it will be replacing its miniatures with larger, pump-top dispensers by 2020. The move follows on the company's
