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Lime offers free bike and scooter rentals on Election Day
If you're looking for a way to the polls this Election Day, you can snag a free ride via bike or scooter from Lime. The company is offering free trips on its fleet of shared bicycles, e-bikes, and occasionally abused electric scooters on Tuesday, November Read More...
GM brings its peer-to-peer car-sharing service to 10 US cities
Earlier this year, GM unveiled a peer-to-peer car-sharing service, expanding its Maven platform to allow GM owners and qualified lessees to rent out their own vehicles. At the time, the company said the service was in beta in Chicago, Detroit and Ann Arbor, Michigan, but GM has now announced that Read More...
This one staff training change made a huge difference for Barre3
Barre3, the boutique strength conditioning gym, is known for its equal attention to both body and mind. Yes, there are grueling lunges and toning squats, but there are also elements of mindfulness and accepting one’s own Read More...
The Boring Company’s first tunnel beneath LA will open to the public in December
The Los Angeles public will get their first ride on Elon Musk’s underground public transportation system quicker than expected. In December, the two-mile test tunnel built beneath SpaceX’s headquarters will offer free rides on autonomously driven electric platforms called “skates.” The Read More...
Danone bets on healthy eating business to boost growth
Danone is banking on its expansion into the lucrative healthy eating business to produce sales growth that will beat the French food company’s rivals over the coming Read More...
Dr. Bronner's soap: You don’t have to screw people over to survive
“You don’t have to fuck people over to survive” are wise words I once heard radical comic book artist Seth Tobocman chant, repeatedly. It’s also the title of one of his books. Those words have stayed with me, and I’m a bit surprised more people don’t echo that sentiment. But one Read More...
How Ikea and HP want to help keep plastic out of the ocean: make stuff from it
If you buy an ink cartridge from HP, some of the plastic might have come from bottles collected on streets and canals in Port-au-Prince, Haiti–intercepted before they could end up in the ocean. Since 2017, the company has worked with local collectors to gather more than half a million pounds of Read More...
Google’s new long game: 100 percent clean energy all the time
Our time to move away from dirty energy to green sources is limited. Federal governments can’t be relied upon to push the conversion–especially not the one in the U.S., which is actively working against large-scale adoption of green Read More...
Panera Bread launches new digital video series on food transparency
Panera Bread is boosting transparency about its products this week, starting with its namesake. The fast-casual chain is now disclosing the whole grain content of the breads on its Read More...
Amazon invests in solar power and recycling programs to cut carbon footprint
Amazon announced two new initiatives today that are aimed at reducing its environmental impact. The first is a $10 million investment in the Closed Loop Fund, an effort to pool corporate resources to help the US improve its municipal recycling Read More...