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The Met Gala is featuring a fully vegan menu for 2021
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The Met Gala is featuring a fully vegan menu for 2021

When models, designers and Hollywood celebrities converge on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute for this year’s exclusive Met Gala, they’ll be snacking on a 100% vegan menu. Ten notable New York chefs will create the plant-based menu for fashion’s most prestigious charity event. If...
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Tiny Homes

ESCAPE to this eco-friendly tiny living community in Tampa

Tiny living has become much more than a fad. It's a way of life. Entire tiny living communities exist now, including the Tampa Bay Village. This community is designed to be eco-friendly. It's a true community where outdoor spaces and chores are shared by all. ESCAPE Homes has introduced their first mid-century...
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Animals

In Our Nature delves into animal life from the Serengeti to US

"In Our Nature," a new six-episode digital series, takes viewers to settings in Tanzania and the U.S. and features gorgeous animals and fascinating info about their lives. And you can watch it free on YouTube. Three of the hosts talked to Inhabitat about their new series — favorite moments,...
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Electric Vehicles

Crowley to build the US's first fully-electric tugboat

After more than a century in business, tugboat pioneers at Crowley Maritime Corporation have revealed their design for the world’s first all-electric harbor tugboat, due to hit the water in 2023. As electric vehicles of all types continue to hit innovative strides, the eWolf will lead the marine industry...
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Social media trends are driving illegal succulent poaching

The social media houseplant craze is driving illegal poaching of succulent plants from Africa. Kenya and South Africa have been identified as key destinations for succulent plant traders. The traders pay locals pennies to dig up the plants, which are then sold internationally at high prices. Botanists warn...
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Climate Change

It's code red for Earth, says new UN study

Being an environmental website, Inhabitat, unfortunately, reports on many terrifying new studies. But in what’s probably the most terrifying of all recent terrifying new studies, the U.N. chief called the report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “code red for humanity.” In...
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Homes

A Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired green house in Menlo Park

Built on a suburban lot in Menlo Park, California, this home blends into the natural landscape, a beautiful escape from the world. Made with connected pavilions and gorgeous redwood, the home by Butler Armsden Architects (BAA) echoes the clean lines and simple elegance of Frank Lloyd Wright while blending seamlessly...

Built on a suburban lot in Menlo Park, California, this home blends into the natural landscape, a beautiful escape from the world. Made with...
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Interior Design

Studio. O. creates minimalist oasis in the heart of Warsaw

Even the smallest space should feel like home, so while planning a retreat from the hustle and bustle of the city, this project focused on giving a small apartment a big aesthetic and natural appeal. This was achieved through multiple cultural influences, a passion for connecting indoor with outdoor spaces and...

Even the smallest space should feel like home, so while planning a retreat from the hustle and bustle of the city, this project focused on giving...
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Homes

A green roof makes Lazy House a sustainable beauty

Lazy House's design emphasizes the relationship between house, garden and city. Each element flows together in this beautiful, harmonious home. Part of a new urban area in the Czech Republic, Lazy House is located above the Zlín valley on a slope that connects to the Lazy residential district. With...

Lazy House's design emphasizes the relationship between house, garden and city. Each element flows together in this beautiful, harmonious home. Part...
A smokestack emitting smoke against an orange sky. A smokestack emitting smoke against an orange sky.
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Air

Fine particulate air pollution linked to increased dementia risk

Researchers at the University of Washington have found a relationship between increased levels of fine particle pollution and the risk of dementia. In a study that borrowed data from two long-running studies in the Seattle area, researchers established that high levels of particulate matter in the environment...

Researchers at the University of Washington have found a relationship between increased levels of fine particle pollution and the risk of dementia....
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Water

Dead zones expand in the Gulf of Mexico and on Oregon coast

Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced last week that the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico are worse this year than they expected. Four million acres of habitat off the Texas and Louisiana coasts are so oxygen-depleted that fish and other bottom-dwelling species can’t...

Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced last week that the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico are...
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Solar

Marjan van Aubel's solar roof couples renewable energy with beauty

Expo 2020 Dubai is gearing up to open in October 2021. This multi-national event will bring together ideas to improve societies and the environment. The Netherlands is participating with a pavilion that will display the ability to harvest water, energy and food through innovative technologies, including a cone-shaped...

Expo 2020 Dubai is gearing up to open in October 2021. This multi-national event will bring together ideas to improve societies and the environment....