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Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: 16 Cents of Each Dollar You Spend on Food Goes to the Farm. What Happens to the Rest?
A new report from the USDA reveals the economic underpinnings of our food system.
Business
Planters Nutmobile Gets an Eco-Revamp
Look: It's a giant rolling peanut with solar panels, a wind turbine, and a biodiesel (but not peanut powered) generator.
Culture
Won't This New Energy Drink Result in Children Drinking Poison?
The new "blue-collar" energy drink Rivet seeks to make waves with its populist marketing and design. But the can seems downright dangerous.
Culture
"Buy Local" Campaigns Actually Work Really Well
It turns out that reminding people to support their local independent businesses works very well. Repeat after us: "Think globally, buy locally."
Culture
Video: So, What Do You Call Multiple Priuses?
With Toyota predicting that the Prius will soon be the most popular car in America, the company is trying to decide what to call more than one Prius.
Culture
Hipsters Can't Resist Camel's "Williamsburg Cigarettes"
Initially derided as "stupid" by Williamsburg locals, the packs are now flying out of New York City bodegas.
Lifestyle
Salad: It's So Much Fun!
The relationship between women and their salads, as revealed through stock photography.
Culture
Wonderful Vintage Computer and Tech Ads
A look back at some bizarrely wonderful advertisements computers-from a time when most people didn't already own one.
Environment
Car Recycling Bins: Volkswagen's Clever Polo Promotion
To promote its new Polo, which is apparently made of 95 percent recyclable material, Volkswagen created these "Car Recycling Bins."
Lifestyle
Are Big Americans a Big Business Opportunity?
The U.S. obesity rate has skyrocketed in the last decade and companies see an opportunity in marketing to obese people. But they shouldn't take it.
The Community Board
A 6 Year Olds Vision of the Future
Last night, a 6 year old friend read me her school speech on the future for her year 1 class. It really moved me so I thought I would share it...
The Community Board
BPGlobalPR: How funny tweets hold BP accountable
You’ve heard about the spill in the gulf. It’s the worst environmental disaster America has ever seen. BP’s topkill didn’t work. It's STILL...
Business
The TOMS Shoe Model: Meaning or Marketing?
In the last few years, doing good and helping others has become fashionable with companies clamoring to get on the do-gooding bandwagon. One...
The Community Board
Do you know a #nonprofit that could benefit from a grant to assist with brand marketing and creative services?
Visit bit.ly/brandgrant for an application for the Causality Brand Grant It is essential non-profits have a strong brand that supports their...
The Community Board
Armed Forces Recruiting with a Brilliant Bullshit Marketing Campaign
I'm watching the season premiere of Lost right now, and I just saw the USAF commercial with the tag line, "It's not science fiction, it's what we...
The Community Board
Can Los Angeles Make Public Transit Cool?
Public transportation has a dirty name in America. So how do you make using the bus and the subway seem cool, especially in an image conscious...
Transparency
Breast Cancer
You've seen the pink ribbons, but do you know how many American women actually get breast cancer? One in eight. While America may have the...
