The Urge To Splurge Mar 16, 2019 ... | Shoes | Alcoholic beverages not at a bar/ restaurant (e.g., wine, beer, hard liquor) | Dining out (e.g., restaurants, takeout, fast food) | Tech and accessories (e.g., mobile device, headphones) | Beauty/grooming (e.g., hair care, makeup) | Groceries | Nonalcoholic beverages (e.g., coffee, soda, energy drinks, juice, water) | Entertainment events/experiences (e.g. theater, concerts) | Accessories not including shoes (e.g., wallet, jewelry) | Traditional media (e.g., books ...
The State Of The Sub/Urban Dec 15, 2018 ... want brands to create green spaces (e.g., parks, planting trees), while three in 10 would like to see brands provide more calming spaces/areas. Timberland is catering to this desire, having recently pledged to create or restore at least 500,000 square feet of green space in cities across the U.S., equivalent to 11 acres, over the next five years. And while many brands, such as Busch Beer and Boxed Water have made efforts to plant trees as of late, we foresee even more companies doing so in cities ...
Welcome To The Club Dec 13, 2018 ... verticals can help them create theirs through outreach and activations and position themselves as a passion point that connects them. In the past, people relied on their communities for safety, security, and support and reaped additional benefits from their community, such as having that neighbor that could lend a cup of sugar, babysit if a parent needed to run a quick errand, or water plants while a family was out of own. Today, people have digital apps that bring those people or deliver those ...
Home & Away Retail Trends Dec 05, 2018 ... toward working women. The store’s physical products already target this demographic by drawing on an empowering and minimalist aesthetic, and the brand itself is female-founded as well as mission-driven; it buys accessories made by women in developing countries, further expanding its arm of inclusive support. Cowork at the Mall Washington D.C.-based startup Cowork At The Mall is combining co-working with retail to fill vacant space in Chicago’s Water Tower Place. The intention isn’t just to ...
Home & Away Marketing Tips Dec 02, 2018 ... consumers and between consumers and brand. S.Pellegrino To celebrate the role of food in building community, luxury water brand S.Pellegrino launched an immersive supper club series called Taste of Italian in London. From May to October, people could purchase a £45 ticket to the monthly event, which featured a menu of authentic Italian sharing platters and dishes, as well as different immersive activities such as a wine workshop and chestnut hunting.Alvalle This past summer, Pepsico celebrated the ...
Race To Zero Sep 22, 2018 ... their own containers or use Nu Grocery's compostable paper bags for dry goods; jars are available to borrow for wet products with a deposit fee. People can also purchase an array of containers, canvas totes, or bulk bags from the store.Nya Carnegiebryggeriet Swedish brewery Nya Carnegiebryggeriet created the country’s first "recycled water beer" in conjunction with the IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, a government-owned organization that has been developing wastewater purification ...
The Invisibles Sep 16, 2018 ... shifting consumer demand. Consider how even as we move towards smart cities, the technology is being woven into the design as to not prevent a space from feeling consumed by tech. Sidewalk Toronto, a waterfront revitalization project from Google's Sidewalk Labs, is described as “the world’s first neighborhood built from the Internet up." While it has smart city pavement that allows for greater flexibility, maintenance, and seasonal needs, it looks like regular tiles. Though it's a high-tech city, it ...
Future Of Fashion & Retail Sep 13, 2018 ... reduce their own carbon footprint.SCOBY SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast) is a rubbery, slick disk that is placed on top of a mixture of tea, sugar, and water so the bacteria in the culture can eat the sugar and catalyze the process of fermentation to create kombucha, a trendy health beverage. For the last few years, designer Sacha Laurin has been utilizing SCOBY to make the material for her clothing and accessory line Kombucha Couture. Laurin cures the SCOBY and adds food dyes to ...
Future Of Travel, Transportation, & Infrastructure Sep 10, 2018 ... rail guideways to transport passengers throughout Denver. In the future, the company wants to implement a 15-mile highway system called Road X that would facilitate the operation of self-driving cars. Toronto, Ontario The Toronto, Ontario and Canadian governments signed a $50 million contract with Sidewalk Labs, a Google sister company, to transform the city’s eastern waterfront into a smart city. Sidewalk Labs seeks to create a city wherein a constant flow of data and feedback from sensors ...
Global Innovation Trends Sep 07, 2018 ... designed to identify and then inject crown-of-thorns starfish—which can eat up to 65 square feet of coral reef a year—with lethal drugs that kill the starfish but harm nothing else in the environment. Rangerbot also maps out large areas of the ocean floor and monitors for reef-affecting pollution, water quality, and coral bleaching. Meanwhile, an American startup called Zero Power is pioneering technology that extracts safe drinking water from sunlight and air—essentially, the ...