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Skyscraper Farming: An urban solution soon to be tested | OdeWire →
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Gratitude
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Fellow Mainers running a sustainable “shuck truck”…
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India, not only one of the world’s most rapidly developing economies is currently leading the world in green power growth.
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Ethiopian artist Kabreab Demeke is working with a local school to create a vertical garden out of old jerrycans.
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Ecotricity says goodbye to the old utilities.
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Spiraling bamboo science station planned for the Amazon rainforest.
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Check out SOUP, Mandy Barker’s photos from the great garbage patch.
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Leger Wanaselja’s McGee House is Made From Over 100 Salvaged Car Roofs
Over 100 salvaged car roofs cover the upper walls of this house. The roofs were sawed out of grey cars left for parts in local junk yards. The lower walls are clad in poplar bark, a waste product from the furniture industry of North Carolina. The awnings are fabricated from junked Dodge Caravan side windows. Once advertised as “America’s best selling minivan”, now a common item in junk yards.
The house is an 1140 square foot, 2 bedroom infill in the heart of one of Berkeley, California’s oldest residential neighborhoods, near the downtown core. It is small on the outside and big on the inside with high ceilings, wide open spaces, and big windows and doors to the garden. The unique curving taper of the building at the front and back serves several functions: it creates the optical illusion of reduced size from the street, it allows more light to enter the south windows, and it allows more light to slide past into the neighbor’s yard.
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Using sustainable design as a bridge between craftwork and the industry, this collection of earthy vessels combines low-impact materials and old world techniques to create durable, functional objects. Designed by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma, the Autarky Vessels are handmade containers created using only natural materials and plant-based dyes that have been cooked at low temperature. Made from a biomaterial consisting of 70% flour, 20% agricultural waste and 10% limestone, these designs take a critical approach to sustainability, focusing in on an autonomous way of producing goods while rediscovering old techniques.
Read more: Formafantasma Crafty Vessels are made from Flour, Agricultural Waste and Limestone | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World -
If the system isn’t working for you…work around it.
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You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.
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6 Hours + 2 Adults = 1 Post-Disaster Prefab 5-Person Home
