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Foresight Friday: Olivia Houghton, insights & engagement director

Every Friday, The Future Laboratory team offers an end-of-week wrap-up of the topics, issues, ideas and virals we’re all talking about. This week, ...

Health : Wellness : Politics

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Sensorial Sustainability

What a brand feels like matters as much as, if not more than, what it says. It isn’t messaging but experiences and spaces that drive trust. In a po...

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The Value Vanguard

Meet the consumers redefining value through imperfect sustainability, emotional spending and radical pragmatism, offering brands a glimpse into the...

Value : Finance : Society

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Cannes Lions 2025: Branding in the Trust Recession

As public trust in institutions plummets, brands are stepping up with bold action, scientific rigour and substance.

Global Events : Branding : Pop Culture & Media

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Zero-energy coffee

UK – Coffee chain Costa opens the Eco Pod, a zero-energy coffee shop.

Energetic Architecture : Zero-energy : Costa

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

Big Ideas

Waste not, want not

Copenhagen – Charity DanChurchAid has opened WeFood, Denmark’s first food surplus supermarket.

Copenhagen : WeFood : Sustainability

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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

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

Big Ideas

Getting steamy

San Francisco – Start-up Nebia is revolutionising the way people shower.

Nebia : Shower System : H2Micro

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

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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

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