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Reggie Watts Really Wants You to Stop Paying for Carbon Pollution Narrates latest Climate Reality Project spot

You're sitting down, doing your taxes, just trying not to hate the universe, when a pocket-picking smoke monster reaches into your jacket and steals all your cash. This is "The…

March 21, 2013, 1:45 PM EDT

Leo Burnett Gives Old Recycled Fridges a Second Life Art pieces for Illinois power company

Here's a fun, pointed twist on refrigerator art. To promote Illinois power company ComEd's recycling program—which gives you cash for your old energy-guzzling icebox, and picks it up as well—Leo…

July 16, 2012, 3:30 PM EDT

Solar Power: It's Not Just for Hippie Freaks Anymore Sunrun ads poke fun at clichés about green-energy users

This fun campaign from solar-power company Sunrun and ad agency Heat should make conventional utility companies green with envy. The writing's excellent—far better than my silly lead sentence—in three well-acted…

May 10, 2012, 11:04 AM EDT

Honest Tea Recycles Your Facebook Updates for Earth Month Old messages get reposted, with a green message

How does one promote recycling, which requires actual effort, on Facebook, which has become a storage locker for cat pictures and misspelled political rants? If your answer was, "Allow people…

April 24, 2012, 10:06 AM EDT

Burt's Bees Gets Nature to Sing in Earth Day Ad Diego Stocco's organic orchestra

That coconut has a great beat, and I can really dance to it. And those almonds are in a groove. Is that dubstep? For several years, Burt's Bees has used…

April 20, 2012, 4:09 PM EDT

Chipotle Recycles Old Billboards Into Eco-Friendly Lunch Bags Give that old advertising vinyl a second life

Chipotle really wants you to know how much it loves the environment. It's already built a successful advertising strategy around trumpeting its commitment to sustainable farming. Now, the brand has…

March 26, 2012, 3:29 PM EDT

Lucy Lawless, Anti-Shell Protester, Once Did a Shell Commercial Actress didn't always take Greenpeace's side

Lucy Lawless got arrested this week, but not for any of the usual sad/funny/pathological celebrity reasons. The actress, whom Adweek interviewed earlier this month, joined a Greenpeace protest of Shell's…

February 29, 2012, 10:02 AM EST

Kids Doubt Climate Change in Bogusky's Latest Green Spot A response to Heartland Institute's school plans

Last fall, former Crispin Porter + Bogusky star Alex Bogusky oversaw "Denial Hits the Fan," a campaign for Al Gore's Climate Reality Project in which denial looked a lot like…

February 28, 2012, 9:45 AM EST

Environmentalists Seethe as the Lorax Speaks for Mazda Movie tie-in with Seuss character is blasted as greenwashing

Would the Lorax ever love an SUV, even one with something called "revolutionary SkyActiv technology"? Environmentalists sure don't seem to think so. Bloggers and YouTube commenters are accusing Mazda of…

February 28, 2012, 8:59 AM EST

Solar Company's Annual Report Is Visible Only in Sunlight Pages spring to life under the sun's rays

Annual reports—traditionally soul-crushing visual creations—are suddenly getting creative. First, we had the eyewear maker that packaged its annual report as an eye-catching infographic. Now, we have a stunning annual report…

February 27, 2012, 2:46 PM EST

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