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How PepsiCo used a Lays potato chip plant to help heat neighboring homes

With Lay’s Factory Home Heating—a winner of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards—the vapor from cooking potatoes replaces natural gas to heat nearby houses.

How PepsiCo used a Lays potato chip plant to help heat neighboring homes

Design leaders at Microsoft, General Mills, and PepsiCo announce ambitious plan to fight climate change

Nine entities, including some that are themselves major environmental polluters, join forces in a nonprofit that addresses the UN’s sustainability goals.

Design leaders at Microsoft, General Mills, and PepsiCo announce ambitious plan to fight climate change

These modular pop-up plastic-sorting facilities can help end ‘recycling deserts’

With $35 million from PepsiCo, this new initiative wants to bring recycling capacity to where none exists—and expand the supply of recycled plastic.

These modular pop-up plastic-sorting facilities can help end ‘recycling deserts’

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Sustainability: The 22 next big things, from eco-fertilizer to 3D printed wood

GM’s standardized electric-car battery, PepsiCo’s water-saving manufacturing process, a sustainable leather alternative, and more.

Sustainability: The 22 next big things, from eco-fertilizer to 3D printed wood

Will PepsiCo be naked once it sells Naked, Tropicana, and other juice brands?

PepsiCo announced this morning that it is selling Tropicana, Naked, and other juice brands to a French private-equity firm for $3.3 billion.

Will PepsiCo be naked once it sells Naked, Tropicana, and other juice brands?

Watching LeBron James salsa dance in this new Mountain Dew ad is the best thing you’ll see today

In his first major ad since signing with PepsiCo, James’ own brand power eclipses even the Mountain Dew Rise he’s slinging.

Watching LeBron James salsa dance in this new Mountain Dew ad is the best thing you’ll see today

Pepsi Apple Pie and Candy Kraft Mac & Cheese: Why food giants are designing extreme new flavors

Pumpkin Spice Kraft Mac & Cheese. Pepsi Peeps (pink). Pepsi Peeps (yellow). Have the food and beverage giants gone mad?

Pepsi Apple Pie and Candy Kraft Mac & Cheese: Why food giants are designing extreme new flavors

This could be the worst Earth Day ad of 2021

Randi Zuckerberg stars in SodaStream’s bizarrely disjointed ode to the planet.

This could be the worst Earth Day ad of 2021

PepsiCo is scaling up regenerative agriculture on 7 million acres of land

The push will bring new techniques to sequester carbon to nearly all of the company’s agricultural footprint.

PepsiCo is scaling up regenerative agriculture on 7 million acres of land

Mountain Dew debuts Rise, an energy drink designed to replace your morning coffee

Sorry Starbucks. The Dew is coming.

Mountain Dew debuts Rise, an energy drink designed to replace your morning coffee

PepsiCo says it will reach net-zero emissions by 2040

In two decades, the giant food and beverage company plans a major shift to renewables and changes throughout its supply chain.

PepsiCo says it will reach net-zero emissions by 2040

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé lead the ’10 worst plastic polluters’ of 2020

Break Free From Plastic says multinational corporations are pumping out so many single-use plastics that harmful plastic production could double by 2030.

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé lead the ’10 worst plastic polluters’ of 2020

PepsiCo wants to help the caffeinated masses get better sleep with its new relaxation drink

Say hello to Driftwell. The perfect nighttime antidote to . . . soda?

PepsiCo wants to help the caffeinated masses get better sleep with its new relaxation drink

Starbucks, PepsiCo, and BMW partner to fix a global problem worth trillions

COVID-19 made it clear: The supply chain desperately needs an upgrade.

Starbucks, PepsiCo, and BMW partner to fix a global problem worth trillions

Why Cheetos is taking its Flamin’ Hot brand into mac and cheese

PepsiCo is combining powers from Frito-Lay and Quaker to take an unofficial fan favorite to grocery store shelves.

Obesity researchers say Coke and Pepsi should stop targeting communities of color with ads

Black children and teens see more than twice as many sugary drink ads (256 and 331 ads per year) as their white counterparts.

Obesity researchers say Coke and Pepsi should stop targeting communities of color with ads

PepsiCo is retiring the Aunt Jemima brand—and it’s about damn time

Despite several makeovers and image redesigns, the company is finally set to erase the 130-year-old brand with racist foundations.

Rival snack brand trolls PepsiCo with ‘Better Snacks,’ a DTC website to counter Frito-Lay

One week after Frito-Lay unit entered the e-commerce fray, an upstart snack rival called PeaTos is launching its own direct-to-consumer effort.

Pepsi and Frito-Lay want you to buy all these snacks online with their new DTC websites

Snacks.com lets you buy Frito-Lay brands such as Tostitos, Cheetos, and Ruffles—as well as dips, crackers, and nuts—online.

Pepsi and Frito-Lay want you to buy all these snacks online with their new DTC websites

Disposable plastic is bad for the environment, but is it illegal? Coca-Cola and Pepsi are about to find out

A landmark suit filed in California is putting some of the biggest producers of plastic on trial.

Disposable plastic is bad for the environment, but is it illegal? Coca-Cola and Pepsi are about to find out

Impact

A living wage doesn’t just benefit workers. It benefits businesses and society, too

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This cargo ship from 1909 is starting to make zero-emissions deliveries again

News

Domino’s ‘Stranger Things’ app reveals the mind-flaying stakes of the attention arms race

The neuroscience behind money and power: How socioeconomic status can literally shape your brain

eBay opens a sneaker store in Los Angeles

Co.Design

The hidden cost of new homes

This Japanese designer turned discarded fishing containers into groovy furniture

What will the ‘de-Arching’ of McDonald’s in Russia actually look like?

Work Life

A psychologist explains why negativity dominates your daily thoughts, and what to do about it

The workplace reckoning in the wake of the Great Resignation

The 3 pillars of a happier and more productive workforce