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Impress your friends with this neat trick using Central Park's historic lamp posts

Central Park presents endless opportunities for exploration with its historic pavilions, verdant meadows, and plenty of playgrounds, gardens and lakes. But if you've found yourself at the vast space scratching your head as to where exactly you were, Mental Floss points out a neat little trick that will help you...
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Incredible edible landscape map shows you where to find free food

Fruit is abundant if you know where to look. Falling Fruit, a massive collaborative mapping project, provides foragers with the tools they need to track down a nutritious snack. Beyond satisfying the hunger pangs of the present, the initiative provides individuals and communities with a resource through which...
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Design

How to make an amazing grass daybed out of wood pallets

Are you looking for ways to spruce up your home's sparse green space or even that sad concrete roof top? Well, look no further because landscape gardener guru, Jason Hodges from the Australian TV show Better Homes & Gardens shows us how to build an amazing outdoor grass daybed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZiIlQq19H4#t=117 The...
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INTERVIEW: With Bridgette Meinhold, Author of 'Urgent Architecture'

When artist, engineer and former Inhabitat Architecture Editor,  Bridgette Meinhold, heard about the earthquake in Haiti in 2010 and the massive devastation it caused, she wanted to help, and was drawn to start investigating different options for temporary shelters and disaster relief housing. This exploration...
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BIG’s looping station design in Paris turns bridge into public space

Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group and French studio Silvio D'ascia Architecture unveiled new renderings of their competition-winning designs for a loop-shaped metro station in Paris. Created as part of Société du Grand París’ Grand Paris Express project, the Pont de Bondy station is one of 68 new stations planned...
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World’s tallest skyscraper design hangs off an orbiting asteroid

What if your daily commute involved parachuting down to earth rather than being stuck in vehicular traffic? That’s the vision in Clouds Architecture Office’s incredible proposal for a skyscraper suspended off an orbiting asteroid. The design, called Analemma, would be powered by space-based solar panels and...
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Environment

INFOGRAPHIC: The e-waste problem and how to help

Think of all the electronics in your life: your phone, tv, computer, game systems, USB drives, printers, Blu ray players, even smart devices like switches and home assistants. Now try to picture what happens to all of those things when they die. Over 50 million tons of e-waste are generated every year, and e-waste...

Think of all the electronics in your life: your phone, tv, computer, game systems, USB drives, printers, Blu ray players, even smart devices...
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Ancient green building technique helps ease West Africa housing crisis

Semi-arid regions of Africa face unique obstacles in their efforts to address a growing housing crisis. For years people built roofs with bush timber, but thanks to climate change and deforestation, those building methods are no longer feasible. And sheet metal is simply too expensive for most rural families....

Semi-arid regions of Africa face unique obstacles in their efforts to address a growing housing crisis. For years people built roofs with bush...
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Environment

China's coasts threatened by rapidly rising sea levels

Sea levels are creeping up as temperatures get hotter here on Earth, and China's State Oceanic Administration just revealed worrying information about its threat to the country's coasts. Sea levels in 2016 in China rose 1.3 inches in just one year, a trend that could have challenging consequences. NASA...

Sea levels are creeping up as temperatures get hotter here on Earth, and China's State Oceanic Administration just revealed worrying information...
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Trump's cuts would have 'devastating impact' on NY, says NY Attorney General

President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund program would have a "devastating impact" on New York State, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman declared at a rally at the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn earlier this week. Joined by activists and lawmakers...

President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund program would have a "devastating impact"...
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State Department to approve permit for Keystone XL

The Trump administration has announced its intention to reverse Barack Obama’s Keystone XL pipeline decision by March 27, according to a report by Politico. Obama blocked construction of the controversial pipeline 16 months ago, a move hailed by environmentalists and slammed by the oil industry. This should...

The Trump administration has announced its intention to reverse Barack Obama’s Keystone XL pipeline decision by March 27, according to a report...
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Environment

World's first zero-emissions hydrogen train aces maiden voyage

The world’s first hydrogen-powered train recently took its maiden voyage, reaching 50 miles per hour in a passenger-free trial run on a test track in Salzgitter, Germany. The zero-emission Coradia iLint train leaves only water vapor in its wake, is completely silent, and integrates many different innovative...

The world’s first hydrogen-powered train recently took its maiden voyage, reaching 50 miles per hour in a passenger-free trial run on a test...