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By Aaron Miller I just bought a new pair of Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars. Yes, this is a column about shoes. But Chuck Taylors, also known as Chucks, are not just any pair of shoes. Like blue ...
With an average of 55 parts in every shoe, it has proven much more difficult than originally thought to source and measure every element. This fall, however, Timberland is introducing EcoMetrics ...
There’s a long road ahead to create a shoe with no carbon footprint. Making a standard sneaker creates, on average, about 12.5 kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, ...
The companies aren’t sharing many specific details, but we know they’re planning to combine their respective areas of expertise to create a shoe that has a carbon footprint of just 2 kg ...
Dubbed the Moonshot–or M0.0NSHOT, as Allbirds named it to emphasize the 0.0 carbon emissions–the shoe registers a net zero carbon footprint without utilizing any offsets, such as carbon credits.
Humanity will soon take another step toward establishing an off-Earth economy, if all goes according to plan. The Florida footwear company Syntilay aims to design a shoe in space by mid- to late ...
The new Futurecraft.Footprint is a high-performance running shoe with a far smaller environmental impact; by the companies’ estimation, its manufacturing process emits a remarkably low 6.5 ...
After exchanging some cheeky messages on social media in the wee hours of Thursday morning, Adidas and Allbirds are linking up. (Sneaker companies, they're just like us!) ...