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  • 05/23/2019

The world’s largest and perhaps most destructive mining industry is rarely discussed. Approximately 85 percent of all material mined from the earth is a simple and widely available resource: sand. Because it is so cheap and readily available, it is mined by everyone from guy with a shovel, to multi-million dollar...

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Escape to the Bavarian Alps in a charming A-frame that produces surplus energy

  • Lucy Wang
  • 05/23/2019

An A-frame house from the 1970s has been converted into the Solarferienhaus S3 (Solar Holiday Home S3), an energy-positive holiday home located in a former holiday village in the hilly Chiemgau landscape of Upper Bavaria. Redesigned last year by German architect Thomas Ziesel, the innovative modern home is primarily...

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An Australian dairy farm is updated with solar-powered ‘grass-to-gate’ facilities

  • Nicole Jewell
  • 05/22/2019

People around the world have been demanding ethical treatment of dairy cows for years, and one brilliant Australian firm, Bosske Architecture, has listened and delivered. The Bosske team has designed a new solar-powered dairy farm facility with a robotic creamery in Northcliffe, Western Australia. The only dairy...

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Study estimates sea level rise two times worse than worst-case scenario

  • Lucienne Cross
  • 05/22/2019

Sea level rise is a serious threat, but a new report argues that it may be far worse than even the current worst-case estimates. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, estimates that there is a 5 percent chance the sea level will rise between 2 feet and 7.8 feet...

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Words matter: The Guardian announces updated climate crisis language

  • Lucienne Cross
  • 05/22/2019

Words matter, and last week The Guardian announced it will start using more appropriately strong words that reflect the magnitude of the climate crisis. Instead of “climate change,” which editor-in-chief Katharine Viner said sounds passive and gentle, staff writers will now use the terms “climate crisis”...

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Repurposed shipping container now holds a trendy beer stand in Tokyo

  • Katherine Gallagher
  • 05/22/2019

In a creative project that will appease both advocates of recycling and lovers of food and drink, the designers at I IN used a corrugated metal shipping container to create the Schmatz Beer Stand in Tokyo, Japan. Rather than stepping into a dark shipping container, guests will enter a warm and inviting...

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