Siemens, a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, operating in the fields of industry, energy and healthcare as well as providing infrastructure solutions, primarily for cities and metropolitan areas, announced the winners of the ‘Changing Your City for the Better,’ video contest hosted through Zooppa, the leading source of user-generated advertising. 

Many brands encourage consumers to lead environmentally friendly lives, but just a few of them explain how. Unilever has outlined five core principles, or so called ‘Levers for Change,’ that help brands convince their consumers that sustainable behaviour is a good thing and convert these simple ‘eco actions’ into consistent habits. The consumer product giant has released an e-book titled ‘Inspiring Sustainable Living,’ where one can find a plethora of expert insights revolving around the theme of consumer behavour as well as tips on how to change people’s attitudes and make them adopt more environmentally sustainable lifestyles.

Ford Motor Company has teamed up with SHFT.com, the award-winning multimedia platform founded by actor and filmmaker Adrian Grenier and film producer Peter Glatzer. The automaker is intended to continue its efforts on smarter environmental decisions and the green lifestyle website will help inspiring people to go ‘greener’ through film, design, art, transportation and culture. 

Burton Snowboards and PepsiCo’s Mountain Dew have partnered to work on improving sustainability in apparel and outerwear. The brands will be collaborating during the 2012 and 2013 product seasons to change the way outerwear and apparel are made and searching the ways of creating sustainable fabrics out of recycled plastic bottles. The created material will feature the new Burton gear collections.

The Coca-Cola System in Great Britain (‘Coca-Cola’) has unveiled bold plans to recycle all colourless Coke and non-Coke branded PET plastic disposed of at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This pledge forms one part of Coca-Cola’s approach to achieving its most sustainable sponsorship activation to date. 

Brands use a plethora of ways to tell the world that they support sustainable practice and manufacture their products with nature in mind. They launch related campaigns, team up with global environmental organizations and release specifically certified products. Promoting the ecological philosophy around the globe, some brands are also targeting youngsters as consumers of tomorrow. PUMA has recently unveiled its new mascot Marmo and released a book about marine life featuring the red creature, and following the sportswear brand, Kimberly-Clark’s Kleenex Cottonelle is also presenting a new children’s book dedicated to the theme of saving orangutans.