Advertising Is Good For You

This is why we need trees

Love this campaign from Leagas Delaney, Hamburg, created for Plant for the Planet.

Copy translation: Every leaf traps carbon dioxide.

Click here to see a cool campaign from Scala JWT, Bucharest, created for Greenpeace.

10 ways to recycle a gift card

Very timely tips from This Old House magazine.

Click here for This Old House magazine's suggestions for re-using old gift cards.

Movie Poster: We Bought a Zoo

Click here to see a movie poster for A Bird of the AIr.

Via IMP Awards

Smooshed brands

Crushed aluminum cans at a recycling plant new Laval, France. Click image to enlarge.

Click here to see an image of 2.5 million plastic bottles, the same number consumed in the U.S. every hour.

Via Atlantic

One of the drawbacks to advertising a new, more 'green' product

This online ad caught my eye.

Scotch wants us to know this new tape is made with plant-based adhesives.

Which got me to wondering what Scotch's other adhesives are made of...

You see the problem.

Revenge on BP

Love creativity in unexpected places.

 

Click here to see the BP logo reimagined by Draplin Design. 

Click here for an ironic BP gas station sign.

Found at Blame It On The Voices

Sing to the tune of Spongebob Squarepants

Found at I have seen the whole of the Internet

Just what I was thinking when I noticed the new Yellow Pages sitting in my driveway

Found at StumbleUpon.

The gold standard for warm and fuzzy (warm and feathery, too) TV commercials

Beautifully done commercial for grease-cutting Dawn dish detergent.

CLICK HERE to watch the Dawn detergent commercial. Really, this time

Unfortunately, from what I've read, if the oil isn't washed off the animal very soon after its exposure to the oil, the toxins in the oil have already been absorbed into the animal's body and it will die regardless.

"We're postponing the Offshore Industry Safety Awards. Write something for the website."

I said a little prayer for the poor bastard who had to write this. And to thank God it wasn't my assignment.

The Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service had to postpone their annual offshore industry safety awards luncheon originally scheduled for May 3. The 120-mile oil slick related to offshore drilling is the obvious cause.

Click the image below to enlarge.

CLICK HERE to go straight to the actual webpage. 

Greenpeace ads from Romania

Advertising Agency: Scala JWT, Bucharest

Source: Ads of the World

Selling green cars in Europe

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Turin

Source: Ads of the World

Rogue Burger Kings selling "baloney"

Some Burger King restaurants in Tennessee added anti-global warming messages to their signage without the home office's approval. CLICK HERE to read the whole story.