Ford Places ‘Living’ Billboard

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The weblog “A is for Advertising” reports Ford has erected a “living billboard” in Dundas Square, Toronto to promote its Escape Hybrid. With the headline, “Makes everything a little greener,” the board contains 900 real plants, kept alive by an irrigation system and tended to weekly by a landscape crew. Larger image here.

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