Greenpeace is raising awareness of the “no bees” problem around the globe with a new campaign, “Save the bees.” The environmental non-profit has launched an online destination, sos-bees.org, to tell the world that widely-used pesticides actually kill bees and to encourage the audience to send a petition against the use of these harmful pesticides.
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Benetton has dedicated the #89 issue of its COLORS magazine titled ‘Moving House,‘ to the darker side of migration. The latest issue explores the challenges that forced migrants or refugees face, provides some practical tips on how to create a shelter to spend the first days on the new land and merely survive.
The Alliance for Cancer Research, APREC, has tapped global pop star and breast cancer survivor Kylie Minogue to front a new campaign that puts a song up for auction for a good cause. As part of the “One Note Against Cancer” effort by Publicis Conseil, the non-profit is selling each note from the single, “Crystallize,” composed by Kylie Minogue just for the occasion.
Digital meets physical in a range of new products by Evernote and Moleskine. The two companies, which released a collaborative notebook in 2012, have come together again to create a product, Evernote Business Notebook, that would mimic the analog notebook in the real world, allowing customers to share handwritten meeting notes just like they do within the Evernote service.
Audi is launching its Urban Future Award 2014, joined by four interdisciplinary teams from across the globe that are exploring the theme of “The Next Leap in Mobility” in their urban development submissions. The participants are sharing their views on the change in mobility in four megapolices—Berlin, Boston, Mexico City and Seoul. The projects will relate to four theses, which highlight the current trends in mobility that emerge globally.
Dove has conducted a new awesome psychological experiment themed around how women perceive their natural beauty. The effort that follows the award-winning piece Beauty Sketches was inspired by a study, which showed that 80% of women feel anxious about their appearance. The Dove: Patches groundbreaking experiment is demonstrating that the beauty is already within us, and it can be “activated” with just one thing—our desire to feel beautiful.