People who do good to their communities must be provided with great coffee that can help these activists ‘recharge the batteries.’ In late March, Seattle’s Best Coffee, which recognizes the importance of providing volunteers with high-quality coffee, introduced the Brew-lanthropy Project, allowing their fans to nominate and choose the recipient of the second-ever Brew-lanthropy Award for volunteers (the first one was named at the launch of the program—it was the Blackstone Bicycle Works nonprofit). The public voting on Facebook ended on May 18, and yesterday the brand announced the winner: it is the faculty of Greene County Middle School in Snow Hill, NC, which got the most votes and so will recieve support from the brand.

Today’s unconventional solutions in visual art often become tomorrow’s fashion trends—emerging talents with their avant-garde thinking and unpredicted approaches to unleashing creativity are one of the biggest treasures for the world of fashion. Knowing that, Louis Vuitton teamed up with a dozen of aspiring artists to provide young geniuses from across the city with an opportunity to demonstrate what they can and learn more about the contemporary art at the awesome website called REcreative.

The greener lifestyle means choosing eco-friendly technology, protecting nature by using recyclable materials as well as being a health nut. In support of the Nissan LEAF, Nissan’s 100% electric automobile named the ‘2011 World Car of the Year,’ Nissan North America teamed up with Hollywood movie star Ryan Reynolds, who has joined a roster of elite fitness enthusiasts, athletes and coaches in the new integrated fitness-focused program dubbed ‘Innovation for Endurance.’

Big companies often kick off promotional initiatives to tell about their products based on green technologies—just like Nissan with is Leaf Hybrid or Volkswagen with the ThinkBlue international program to name but a few. Panasonic Corporation of North America, which is one of the biggest global corporations committed to using innovative eco-friendly solutions, has launched a campaign in the U.S. not to promote some certain ranges, but to “highlight its growing leadership in green business innovation looking toward 2018, the 100th anniversary of the founding of its parent company, Panasonic Corporation,” as the press release states.

Earlier this year, the Japanese lifestyle brand Uniqlo launched a fashion community UNIQLOOKS for those who like to create new outfits made of the brand’s items, share their ‘mix-and-match’ efforts with other people around the globe, who rate the entries with Facebook ‘Likes.’ Now, the brand is inviting its fans to show off their unique summer looks with the other fashionistas for a chance to win a trip to one of five world’s fashion hotspots and receive Uniqlo gift vouchers.