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TREEPODS: Carbon-Scrubbing Artificial Trees for Boston City Streets

02/14/2011
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    Trees naturally filter and clean our air, but in today’s heavily polluted world, it's just too huge of a task to expect Mother Nature to take care of herself. Taking this into account, designers Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico have designed a set of beautiful air-filtering trees for the SHIFTboston urban intervention contest. Called TREEPODS, the designs harnesses biomimicry to efficiently emulate the carbon filtration qualities of trees....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/treepods-carbon-scrubbing-artificial-trees-for-boston-city-streets/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Treepods
    Trees naturally filter and clean our air, but in today’s heavily polluted world, it's just too huge of a task to expect Mother Nature to take care of herself. Taking this into account, designers Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico have designed a set of beautiful air-filtering trees for the SHIFTboston urban intervention contest. Called TREEPODS, the designs harnesses biomimicry to efficiently emulate the carbon filtration qualities of trees....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/treepods-carbon-scrubbing-artificial-trees-for-boston-city-streets/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Treepods
    Trees naturally filter and clean our air, but in today’s heavily polluted world, it's just too huge of a task to expect Mother Nature to take care of herself. Taking this into account, designers Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico have designed a set of beautiful air-filtering trees for the SHIFTboston urban intervention contest. Called TREEPODS, the designs harnesses biomimicry to efficiently emulate the carbon filtration qualities of trees....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/treepods-carbon-scrubbing-artificial-trees-for-boston-city-streets/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Treepods
    Trees naturally filter and clean our air, but in today’s heavily polluted world, it's just too huge of a task to expect Mother Nature to take care of herself. Taking this into account, designers Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico have designed a set of beautiful air-filtering trees for the SHIFTboston urban intervention contest. Called TREEPODS, the designs harnesses biomimicry to efficiently emulate the carbon filtration qualities of trees....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/treepods-carbon-scrubbing-artificial-trees-for-boston-city-streets/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Treepods
    Trees naturally filter and clean our air, but in today’s heavily polluted world, it's just too huge of a task to expect Mother Nature to take care of herself. Taking this into account, designers Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico have designed a set of beautiful air-filtering trees for the SHIFTboston urban intervention contest. Called TREEPODS, the designs harnesses biomimicry to efficiently emulate the carbon filtration qualities of trees....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/treepods-carbon-scrubbing-artificial-trees-for-boston-city-streets/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Treepods
    Trees naturally filter and clean our air, but in today’s heavily polluted world, it's just too huge of a task to expect Mother Nature to take care of herself. Taking this into account, designers Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico have designed a set of beautiful air-filtering trees for the SHIFTboston urban intervention contest. Called TREEPODS, the designs harnesses biomimicry to efficiently emulate the carbon filtration qualities of trees....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/treepods-carbon-scrubbing-artificial-trees-for-boston-city-streets/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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Treepods

Trees naturally filter and clean our air, but in today’s heavily polluted world, it's just too huge of a task to expect Mother Nature to take care of herself. Taking this into account, designers Mario Caceres and Cristian Canonico have designed a set of beautiful air-filtering trees for the SHIFTboston urban intervention contest. Called TREEPODS, the designs harnesses biomimicry to efficiently emulate the carbon filtration qualities of trees....

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