The Coca-Cola Company and Ford Motor Company are fueling more sustainable design by collaborating on a first-ever interior fabric made from the same renewable material used to produce Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle Technology packaging. The two companies today unveiled a Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid vehicle with Coca-Cola PlantBottle Technology interior fabric surfaces covering seat cushions, seat […]
Wine industry leader in innovation Truett-Hurst wine company of Healdsburg, California, says no to marketing green-washing. The release of the first paper wine bottle in the U.S. from Truett-Hurst is the real thing. The paper wine bottle, branded PaperBoy, is a molded outer shell in the shape of a wine bottle, made from recycled cardboard […]
Tesco is cutting the buy-one-get-one-free (bogof) promotions on its bagged salads after finding that 68% of them end up being wasted by consumers. The supermarket said the move is a first in response to its own research into food waste, which tracked 25 of its bestselling products to better understand where food waste occurs from […]
Nestlé has announced it will achieve zero waste in all of its 150 European factories by 2020. This means that no factory waste will go to landfill or be incinerated without energy being recovered from the process. “The decision to achieve zero waste illustrates Nestlé’s commitment to environmentally sustainable business practices,” said Laurent Freixe, Nestlé […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogVHwYu2gAU The Coca-Cola Company announced they will work to bring Ekocenter– a kiosk designed to improve the well-being of communities – to 20 countries by the end of 2015. The project is in partnership with DEKA R&D, IBM, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), McCann Health, NRG Energy (NRG), Qualcomm Technologies and UPS. Coca-Cola’s announcement brings to […]
This summer, millions of people were inspired to move and groove with Coca-Cola as part of its Get The Ball Rolling initiative. Coca-Cola has reached its goal to inspire 3 million Americans to rediscover the joy of being active in communities across the country since May. “For Coca-Cola, inspiring moments of happiness is part of […]
Seattle-based Dan Newman and his business partner, Bryan Summersett have developed an app that lets you share your leftovers with strangers. They developed Leftover Swap and it is an ingenious way of swapping meals with people around your neighborhood. Using the idea of couch surfing, where you can share your apartment with a stranger, Newman […]
“We grow enough food to feed every single person on the planet, yet millions of people go to bed hungry.” This is just one eye-opening fact that can be found in the video, ‘Food Waste: A Story of Excess’ by Visual.ly. Other startling facts include how half of the food produced in the United States […]
McDonald’s has decided to renewing its brand image integrating the architecture of its restaurants with a renewable energy source thanks to new solar carports built to offer customers a useful and ecological way to protect their cars. Alkmaar, Schagen and Burgerbrug are the towns chosen for this experimental project: the installation of a carport for […]
There are serious problems in the food chain in relation to food traceability as the recent horse-meat scandal highlighted. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage and the Sustainable Restaurant Association have taken action, and are breaking new ground by providing accredited training by City & Guilds in ethical food selection and procurement. River Cottage is famous for […]