27 2024 May
IKEA Organizes Flea Markets Across Europe to Help People Sell Used Items
This summer, in their ample parking lots across several European cities, IKEA will be hosting weekend flea markets for people to come and sell their...
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02 2024 May
Can Seaweed Mining Become the Next Billion Dollar Industry?
A tiny branch of the US Department of Energy focused on high-risk projects just awarded $5 million dollars to three startup ventures that are each...
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30 2024 April
How Water Flipping, Excess Solar Energy and Shifting Hydropower Stations Show Us the Future Is All About Water
The skies were orange above Athens and that was just one of several climate and energy related stories this week that offered a glimpse into stories we...
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16 2024 April
Playing Happy Reef Sounds Could Bring Coral Reefs Back to Life
A happy and healthy coral reef has a sound. The various “snaps, groans, grunts and scratches that form the symphony of a healthy ecosystem” are...
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08 2024 April
Harper Collins Identifies Eco-Friendly Fonts to Save Thousands of Trees and Reduce Paper Usage
Every few months there are new sustainability stories of the world’s largest brands trying to create less wasteful packaging. Coca-Cola announced a new lighter bottle design this...
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26 2024 March
Barilla and the Marketing Pitfall of the Unnecessary Celebrity Spokesperson
Pasta boxes are the perfect packaging to reuse. Pasta leaves no residue, and the boxes are generally large enough to fit other items. That’s clearly...
Read Now20 2024 March
The Curious Annual Ritual of Frog Shuttling and Why People Do It
You may have seen videos in your social media feed of animal lovers saving a baby chick who falls into a storm drain, or a...
Read Now14 2024 February
Why We Should Celebrate the Most Underappreciated Agency in Government: The EPA
There are parts of the world where the first thing that residents check on their phones when they wake up isn’t their email or the...
Read Now12 2024 January
Will 2024 Be the Year Cities Finally Ditch Parking Minimums?
What if the one of the biggest reasons for poverty and homelessness in cities wasn’t a lack of money or ballooning health care costs, but...
Read Now12 2023 December
The Minus Chair Saves the Earth by Cutting Down More Trees?
What if you could design furniture that captures more carbon than it emits? That’s the vision behind the Minus Chair, a design award winning new product...
Read Now02 2023 November
Flushless Toilets, Plastic Reuse, and More Ideas From the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale
Imagine a toilet that never needs to be flushed. Arid desert land converted into abundant living spaces. Plastic yellow gallon oil containers upcycled into chairs and...
Read Now19 2023 October
How the Liquid Tree Might Be a Game-Changer for Urban Air Pollution
“We are not trying to replace trees. We are trying to replace benches.” That’s the clever pitch of a project imagined and created by Serbian...
Read Now10 2023 October
Welcome to Fat Bear Week, Which Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
“Think of Fat Bear Week as a March Madness meets Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest.” That’s the way one article describes the annual habits...
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