The shoe that changed everything, according to designer D’Wayne Edwards, was the Nike Air Max 1. It was like nothing the young Edwards had ever seen. The designer, Nike’s Tinker Hatfield, had been an ...
In the searing heat at the ACAMTC recycling cooperative south of São Paulo, in Três Corações, Brazil, a group of recycling waste workers known as Catadores prepared bales of discarded plastic for ...
Petroleum fuels your morning run as much as coffee and oatmeal. The footwear industry relies on the goopy lifeblood of plastic, and running shoes in particular are dependent on the stuff. For runners ...