Official Listowel Writers' Week reusable cups and festival merchandise are now available from the festival box office. Visitors who buy and use a festival 'keep cup' in participating cafés and businesses throughout Listowel will receive a complimentary gift from Alliance members, including handmade chocolates and specially selected bookmarks.
Less than 2% of Americans can put plastic film in their curbside recycling bin, according to The Recycling Partnership. Meanwhile, the country generates millions of pounds of bags, pallet wrap, bubble mailers, and dry cleaner sleeves every year that machinery at materials recovery facilities is designed to reject. The plastic film problem has been the recycling industry's white whale for three decades - too contaminated for most processors, too light for most economics.
The authentic version is built for the demands of elite football with PUMA's ULTRAWEAVE fabric designed to ensure unrestricted movement. dryCELL and ThermoAdapt technologies manage sweat and regulate body heat. The replica has the RE:FIBRE technology, made from 95% recycled polyester sourced from textile waste.
Los Félix is located in Miami's Coconut Grove neighborhood, where its modern menu, natural wine list, and rotating vinyl music program have been embraced by visitors and locals alike since 2021. The restaurant was the brainchild of Grassfed Culture Hospitality, a collective led by restaurateurs Josh Hackler, Pili Restrepo, and executive chef Sebastian Vargas. The entire ethos of Los Felix revolves around honoring the ancestral tradition of Milpa farming, a traditional intercropping system that allows the land to regenerate naturally.
The 2026 World Cup is not only the most politically combustible tournament in modern history, but it is also on track to be the most polluting World Cup ever, with total greenhouse gas emissions hitting nearly two times the historical average. Scientists conservatively project that the tournament will generate around 9m tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. Air travel comprises approximately 7.7m tons of this carbon budget, and more than four times that of the average for tournaments held between 2010 and 2022. The researchers note that the worst-case upper estimate for air transport is about 13.7m tons of CO2.
Parks Canada, the federal agency responsible for protecting and managing Canada's natural and cultural heritage, announced the winning design for a reimagined visitor centre and community space in Banff National Park. The competition was organized in partnership with the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) as part of the 200-Block Banff Avenue Redevelopment Project. The proposal by Paul Raff Studio and Kengo Kuma & Associates was selected from a shortlist of five pre-qualified teams that also included EVOQ + Ryder, KPMB Architects, Revery Architecture, and Stantec Architecture.
The vehicle displayed in Milan is the Irizar ie bus Efficient, a fully electric urban bus platform officially unveiled in October 2025. The model is available in 10-, 12- and 18-metre variants and represents the latest evolution of the manufacturer's electric urban range.
Somehow, somewhere, exists a place in New York City where one can buy a medium-sized pad of Yupo paper, a set of unopened Sennelier oil sticks, oodles of embroidery floss, and a mix-and-match encaustic paint set for under $20. That place is called Brooklyn Creative Reuse (BCR), and it recently opened its physical location in Industry City.
Dean's Beans Organic Coffee Company, which was named Rural Business of the Year for Massachusetts by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA cited the worker-owned roasting company's ethical sourcing practices. The company also said its latest B Corp recertification resulted in a B Impact Score of 168.5, well above the 80-point certification threshold.
While 41% of European aviation fuel goes through the strait of Hormuz, market analysts showed global shipments of jet fuel and kerosene fell below 2.3 million tonnes last week, the lowest level on record. The world uses about 100 million barrels of oil a day, most of it from oilfields, with about 15 million barrels a day typically passing through Hormuz.
Pinal Air Park in Arizona is one of the largest aircraft storage facilities in the world, with a multimillion-dollar business that boomed during the pandemic as airlines grounded hundreds of jets.
I was born in New York, but grew up in Brazil - both of my parents are Brazilian. I grew up in a very small town. My uncle had a farm, so I spent a lot of time there on the weekends.