Google is running a new series of its Impact Challenges in Australia, the UK, US Bay Area, Brazil and India. The annual competition asks local nonprofits to submit their innovative ideas on how to improve the world, and provides funding to implement the winning projects selected by the global public.
Category Archive: Sustainability
The team behind the free fitness tracking Human App, which motivates users to move at least 30 minutes during the day, has analyzed how people prefer to move around in their cities in different parts of the world. As part of the study, 7.5 million miles of activity—walking, running, cycling, and motorized transportation—were analyzed.
M&C Saatchi has developed an emotional campaign for Transport for London, designed to make people be more tolerant and not let their emotions out on the road. The “Share the Road” effort features a film as well as a dedicated page that explain why we should be more considerate on the roads to have safe journeys.
Cannes Lions, one of the most respectful events in the advertising and media domain, has unveiled major winners in 18 categories, spanning from traditional Media, Design and Film Lions to Innovation, Product Design, and Grand Prix for Good Lions. The last category’s winner and contenders as well as trends and niches they stick to are detailed below.
Starbucks will be unveiling a new artistic design on its limited-edition reusable plastic cups this autumn—it will be the artwork that won the Starbucks White Cup Contest, which was running across the U.S. and Canada. In spring, the coffee giant asked its multiple fans in America to develop their own original artwork to fill the blank canvas of its white coffee cups. The winning work was submitted by 20-year-old community college student Brita Lynn Thompson, living in Pittsburgh.