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Foresight Friday: Olivia Houghton, insights and engagement director

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Foresight Friday: Olivia Houghton, insights and engagement director

Every Friday, we offer an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, insights and engagem...
Culture : Science : Society
Future Forecast 2025: Food & Drink

Macro Trends

Future Forecast 2025: Food & Drink

From beanless coffee and fashion-forward fast food to nutrient-packed snacks and spicy-sweet flavour fusions, food and drink innovators are redefin...
Food : Health & Wellness : Drink
Stat: Why thousands of plants are facing extinction

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Stat: Why thousands of plants are facing extinction

Plant species that do not benefit humans directly through medicine, sustenance or material resources are at the risk of extinction.
Sustainability : Food & Drink : Society
Volvo becomes a green energy provider

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Volvo becomes a green energy provider

The car-maker’s Belgian division has joined forces with clean electricity provider Eneco to offer consumers in Belgium a low-cost green energy cont...
Mobility : Energy : Sustainability
Fruitful enterprise

Big Ideas

Fruitful enterprise

Monterrey, Mexico – Eat Limmo is a start-up that is tackling food waste by sourcing ingredients made from seeds and peelings.
Eat Limmo : Waste : Fruits
The Age of the Long Near: Film explores the threat of short-term thinking

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The Age of the Long Near: Film explores the threat of short-term thinking

This is The Age of the Long Near, in which we explore why short-term thinking is the greatest threat to business potential, our happiness as indivi...
Purcell Room : South Bank : Trend Briefing 2015
Connected Worlds

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Connected Worlds

New York – Creative studio Design I/O has developed and installed Connected Worlds, a large-scale, interactive eco-system, in the New Yor...
Connected Worlds : Design I/O : New York Hall Of Science
Zero-energy coffee

Big Ideas

Zero-energy coffee

UK – Coffee chain Costa opens the Eco Pod, a zero-energy coffee shop.
Energetic Architecture : Zero-energy : Costa
Omni facilitates the sharing of stored items

Big Ideas

Omni facilitates the sharing of stored items

San Francisco – On-demand storage start-up Omni enables users to rent out their stored items to the local community.
Retail : Fashion : Interiors
An alternative alternative

Big Ideas

An alternative alternative

US – Ripple is a new milk made from pea protein, providing an alternative to dairy and non-dairy milk.
Dairy Milk : Nut Milks : Ripple
Label warning

Big Ideas

Label warning

US – Consumers are becoming increasingly indifferent to so-called organic products, according to a new study from Mintel.
Food : Organic : Health
Staying power

Big Ideas

Staying power

North Carolina – Marriott has launched a new hotel concept that enables guests to test and provide feedback on their experience in real time.
Marriott International : Beta Buttons : Farm-to-table
Cold-press convenience

Big Ideas

Cold-press convenience

California – Juicero is a home cold-press juicing system that takes the time and effort out of sourcing and preparing fresh ingredients.
Juicero : Cold-pressed Juice : Farm-to-glass
Aromatherapy Associates debuts its compostable face mask

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Aromatherapy Associates debuts its compostable face mask

London – Aromatherapy Associates demonstrated its environmentally friendly credentials at this year’s Global Wellness Summit with the launch of its...
Beauty
Power to pedestrians

Big Ideas

Power to pedestrians

Barcelona – The city of Barcelona is undergoing a major restructuring in a bid to reduce traffic and create more pedestrian spaces.
Barcelona : Traffic : Placemaking
San Fran solar

Big Ideas

San Fran solar

San Francisco – A new city ordinance means that every new building will now be required to have solar panels.
San Francisco : Solar Panels : Renewable Energy
Ocean clean-up

Big Ideas

Ocean clean-up

Herzogenaurach, Germany – Adidas is the latest big brand to show off its eco-credentials.
Parley For The Oceans : Adidas : Marine Waste
Waste not, want not

Big Ideas

Waste not, want not

Copenhagen – Charity DanChurchAid has opened WeFood, Denmark’s first food surplus supermarket.
​Copenhagen : WeFood : Sustainability
Award-winning biodegradable credit card tackles climate change

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Award-winning biodegradable credit card tackles climate change

Finland – The Bank of Aland’s card, which won a Grand Prix award at Cannes 2017, helps users to track their carbon footprint.
Finance : Sustainability : Recycling
Indexing transparency

Big Ideas

Indexing transparency

UK – Published last week, the Fashion Transparency Index assesses brands’ knowledge of their supply chain processes.
Transparency : Supply Chain : Fashion Revolution
Getting steamy

Big Ideas

Getting steamy

San Francisco – Start-up Nebia is revolutionising the way people shower.
Nebia : Shower System : H2Micro
Clear differences

Big Ideas

Clear differences

Los Angeles – Trained water sommelier Martin Riese has announced the first water-tasting class to take place in the US.
Water : Conoisseurship : Los Angeles
Always moving

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Always moving

Global – Hyundai has explored resource circulation and mobility in a captivating short film from production design studio Universal Everything.
Universal Everything : Hyundai : Running Man
Intelligent Mobility

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Intelligent Mobility

Geneva – Architects Foster + Partners and Nissan have created a vision of the future in which vehicles act as portable energy sources.
Nissan : Foster + Partners : Intelligent Mobility
This clothing tag doubles as a detergent sample

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This clothing tag doubles as a detergent sample

Unilever detergent brand OMO has developed a water-soluble clothing tag made entirely from its laundry detergent.
Fashion : Sustainability : Laundry
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