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Kitchen and Dining

A modern design for a sustainable, zero-waste kitchen

If you’ve been wondering how to maintain a kitchen that produces no waste whatsoever, take a look at this project. Designed by Austria-based furniture designer Ivana Steiner, this modern zero-waste kitchen incorporates unique features to be as environmentally conscious as any room of the home could ever hope...
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HOW TO: Grow an Avocado Tree from an Avocado Pit

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Pollution

Three Americans' lifetime emissions enough to kill one person

A recent study on the mortality cost of carbon emissions has revealed that the average emissions created by 3.5 Americans are enough to kill one person. Further, the study found that emissions from a single coal-fired power plant are enough to cause roughly 900 deaths. The study, published in Nature Communications,...
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Climate Change

Earth Overshoot Day 2021 has arrived. What does it mean for the planet?

While the pandemic had humanity burning up the world’s resources more slowly than usual, the trend has reversed. Earth Overshoot Day, alas, arrived yesterday on July 29. If you’re not familiar with this day, it’s the date that humans’ use of ecological resources and services exceeds what Earth can...
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Tiny Homes

Elon Musk's tiny house is a Boxabl casita

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Homes

This island home has a green roof seeded with native, drought-tolerant plants

Lone Madrone is a 1,600-square-foot vacation retreat located on a rocky, south-facing shoreline on Orcas Island, a horseshoe-shaped islet in the San Juan Islands archipelago off Washington state. The home’s green roof is landscaped with a variety of plants and vegetation that are both native and drought-tolerant,...
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Conservation

Appalachian Beekeeping Collective boosts pollinators and supports beekeepers

Oh, honey. This ultra-sweet concoction is nature’s candy, a product of hardworking bees. It can be controversial among plant-based eaters, but the reality is we can enjoy this natural sweetener if we learn to live in harmony with the bees. Unfortunately, bees are in trouble. Bee hives have decreased about 60%...
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Art

3D-printed House of Dust connects a 1967 poem to modern technology

3D-printed houses and other structures are becoming increasingly more common, but none have a creation story quite like The House of Dust, a livable structure in Wiesbaden, Germany that connects 1967 to today through the words of a poem. "The House of Dust" was initially a poem, created in 1967 by...
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Animals

Critically endangered bird found alive in Hawaii

A Maui parrotbill that was thought to have died over one and a half years ago has been spotted on the slopes of a Maui volcano. The golden thick-billed bird was spotted on Wednesday by Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources researcher Zach Pezzillo after recognizing its song. The bird is one of seven...

A Maui parrotbill that was thought to have died over one and a half years ago has been spotted on the slopes of a Maui volcano. The golden thick-billed...
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Tiny Homes

ARCspace's prefab homes are a quick and sustainable housing solution

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Water

Pollution turned this lagoon in Argentina stinky and pink

If photos of Chicago dying its river bright green for Saint Patrick’s Day give you the heebie-jeebies, don’t even think about reading on. An Argentinian lagoon turned hot pink last week from chemical pollution. And it stinks. https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/1419141607488634886 The...

If photos of Chicago dying its river bright green for Saint Patrick’s Day give you the heebie-jeebies, don’t even think about reading...
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Homes

Prefab holiday home in the Netherlands features transforming rooms

Located on the Dutch island of Texel in the Netherlands, this small holiday home is found just a short walk to the North Sea. Rotterdam-based Orange Architects decided to take a different approach to the villa’s design in order to save space with the use of prefabrication and flexible design. Instead...

Located on the Dutch island of Texel in the Netherlands, this small holiday home is found just a short walk to the North Sea. Rotterdam-based...
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Kitchen and Dining

These compostable plates are like nothing you’ve seen before

If you didn’t know that Wasara plates are meant to be thrown away, you wouldn’t want to let them go. Designed to be elegant and beautiful, Wasara plates are compostable and disposable. But there’s a lot more than plates here. Wasara designed an entire line of tableware that includes bowls, serving...

If you didn’t know that Wasara plates are meant to be thrown away, you wouldn’t want to let them go. Designed to be elegant and beautiful,...
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Office

French offices receive a green update with Benetti MOSS walls

Sometimes, the best ideas are inspired in the most unlikely of ways. That was certainly the case for the new green walls in Mustela's offices. A water-cooler chat at the French offices of Mustela, a company specializing in products for babies, sparked an idea that fanned into a new and versatile office design...

Sometimes, the best ideas are inspired in the most unlikely of ways. That was certainly the case for the new green walls in Mustela's offices....
A circular blue road sign being swallowed up by flood water. A circular blue road sign being swallowed up by flood water.
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Climate Change

London floods spark worry over climate change preparedness

On Sunday, the residents of London were caught up in flash floods following a heavy downpour, reigniting conversations about climate change preparedness. Experts have previously warned that the world's largest cities are at the risk of facing devastating climate change consequences, which they are not prepared...

On Sunday, the residents of London were caught up in flash floods following a heavy downpour, reigniting conversations about climate change preparedness....