Ford Hybrids C-Max and Fusion Fail to Meet Fuel Economy Standards
If you drive a Ford C-Max or a Ford Fusion Hybrid , you might want to double check the fuel economy of your car. Two of Ford’s hybrids, the C-Max and the Fusion, fell short of fuel economy targets...
View ArticleFord Hybrids C-Max and Fusion Fail to Meet Fuel Economy Standards
If you drive a Ford C-Max or a Ford Fusion Hybrid , you might want to double check the fuel economy of your car. Two of Ford’s hybrids, the C-Max and the Fusion, fell short of fuel economy targets...
View ArticleBrazilian Fast-Food Chain Cuts Waste By Serving Up Burgers Wrapped In Edible...
A Brazilian fast-food chain has introduced a clever solution for customers tired of having to unwrap their hamburger before eating it: edible packaging . As part of a marketing campaign designed to...
View ArticleBrazilian Fast-Food Chain Cuts Waste By Serving Up Burgers Wrapped In Edible...
A Brazilian fast-food chain has introduced a clever solution for customers tired of having to unwrap their hamburger before eating it: edible packaging . As part of a marketing campaign designed to...
View ArticleBurger King’s Horse Meat Scandal is a Whopper to Rein in
Burger King image, Shutterstock Residents of the United Kingdom are outraged following Burger King’s timid announcement that trace amounts of horse DNA were found in meat at its production plant, and...
View ArticleEconomists Debate Whether the McDonald’s Hamburger is the Most Nutritious and...
Fast food offers a cheap and calorie-rich option to fill your stomach, but can it be considered the “most bountiful food” of all time? The Freakonomics authors and radio broadcasters are asking just...
View ArticleNew Report Reveals Rubberizing “Yoga Mat” Chemical Present in 500 Everyday Foods
Photo © Shutterstock Until Subway announced it was pulling azodicarbonamide (ADA) out of its bread last week, few people had ever heard of this food additive found in many baked goods. As it turns...
View ArticleHow US Urban Sprawl Causes Problems Ranging from Obesity to Climate Change
Have you ever thought about how the design of our cities, towns, and communities has wide ranging effects on both our own lives and on larger global issues? Yes, simply by changing the way we design...
View ArticleEver Wondered What Your Cheeseburger Really Costs?
Here at Inhabitat, we’ve written about the devastating true costs of fast fashion , but what about the cost of fast food? Recently, Mark Bittman wrote a piece at the New York Times calculating the...
View ArticlePope confirms that all dogs go to heaven
Catholic pet lovers can relax now, after the Pope recently announced that animal companions can go to heaven. While speaking to a boy grieving for a dog who had passed, Pope Francis said, “One day, we...
View ArticlePlummeting sales show Americans are basically over McDonald’s
McDonald’s recently reported that their same-store sales (at stores open at least 13 months) fell a whopping 4.6% month-on-month. That’s coming on the heels of a brutal fall in sales overall since...
View ArticleScoffee: Edible cups mean you can have your coffee and eat it
Disposable coffee cups are a massive source of waste, the US alone throws out over 25 billion styrofoam coffee cups every year , so an edible coffee cup sounds like it could quite a good idea. Enter...
View ArticleGoogle Purchases Dubai’s World of Islands to Reconfigure into Google Shaped...
At the beginning of 2011, Dubai ‘s most notorious man-made islands, a.k.a. The World, made a splash with news that they were slowly but surely sinking into the sea . Now, in a bizarre twist of events...
View ArticleMcDonald’s to Add Lab-Grown ‘Chicken’ McNuggets to its Menu
McDonald ‘s just announced it will be the first fast food restaurant in the United States to add lab-grown meat to its menu. Following the success of Sergey Brin’s lab-grown burger experiment in...
View ArticleExperimental eco-hostel promotes Andean culture and Pachamama love in Bolivia
Read the rest of Experimental eco-hostel promotes Andean culture and Pachamama love in Bolivia Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Andean Culture , bolivia , dry toilet , eco design , eco...
View ArticleTaco Bell and Pizza Hut removing artificial ingredients, pledge to use real food
It’s hard to praise fast food companies for promising to use real black pepper instead of “black pepper flavor,” and yet, when so many artificial colors and flavorings have become ubiquitous in our...
View ArticleHow McDonald’s aims to serve up deforestation-free packaging
You’ve heard about sustainable beef, but the fast food giant is focusing its European supply chain sustainability efforts on packaging. Here is the original post: How McDonald’s aims to serve up...
View ArticleHow Kaiser Permanente uses virtual PPAs to scale solar
Falling solar costs and new purchasing mechanisms are empowering companies to pursue solar in new ways. Read more here: How Kaiser Permanente uses virtual PPAs to scale solar
View ArticleArby’s serves up its first CSR report; here’s the beef
The fast food sandwich chain, under new management since 2013, tells the world what it’s been doing about energy efficiency, hunger relief and programs for employees and youth. More: Arby’s serves up...
View ArticleImpossible Foods cooks up a new paradigm for the food system
Mission possible: Impossible Foods’ sustainability manager discusses how the startup built a plant-based burger that may revolutionize fast food. See the original post: Impossible Foods cooks up a new...
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