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The #FarmToCar mission is simple: replace petroleum-based plastics with plant-based materials.https://t.co/ETS8NqtqxL

— Ford Drive Green (@FordDriveGreen) May 10, 2016

The farm-to-table movement is all about building connections between growers, and the people eating. But what is farm-to-car?

Debbie Mielewski, Senior Technical Leader of Materials Sustainability, Ford Motor Company, spearheaded the idea of using plant-based materials instead of petroleum-based plastics in new Ford vehicles.

"We were told over and over it could not be done," she says, but she knew that soy-

100 Acres of New Green Space ??
Double the Tree Canopy ??
Double the Adaptive Landscape ??#Sustainable future ?? ??https://t.co/IsO5r38mHT

— Ford Drive Green (@FordDriveGreen) April 18, 2016

Ford's Dearborn campus will be going some extensive changes in the coming years, all for innovation and sustainability's sake. "Ford Designing New Campus to Drive Innovation and Collaboration, Invest in Employees," a Sustainable Brands piece from earlier this month, has more details.