12 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...
Read Now30 2023 September
Can Shaming Agencies Create a Talent Rebellion Against “Unworthy” Brands?
A environmental activist group that calls themselves Clean Creatives is “once again calling out ad agencies that have contracts with fossil fuel companies in a...
Read Now28 2023 September
How Bottled Water Took Over the World
In case you’re wondering who to blame for the popularity of disposable water bottles and the environmental catastrophe they have fueled – you could start...
Read Now12 2023 September
The Magical Mashup of National Parks and a Nobel Laureate’s Poetry
Ada Limón, the current US poet laureate, is teaming up with the U.S. National Park Service and the Poetry Society of America to put two things that...
Read Now05 2023 September
Abolishing Wilderness and Ten Things You Can’t Say About Climate Change
For most animals, life in the wild is “one overwhelmingly characterized by fear, predation, stress, disease, parasitism, exposure, hunger, infanticide, cannibalism, and early death.” And...
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