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- Bolivia’s atmospheric Jardín de Asia features cozy cocoons made of natural materials Fri, 10 Jul 15, 4:30amThe stunning Jardín the Asia is part of Los Tajibos Hotel, Santa Cruz de la Sierra's most luxurious accomodation. Envisioned by local architect Juan Carlos Menacho, it features a grand tunnel-like entrance crafted from biodegradable...
- ‘From Piss to Pilsner’ recycles urine to make beer Tue, 7 Jul 15, 1:30amThe urine from the estimated 100,000 visitors to the Roskilde Festival in Denmark this summer will have the odd opportunity to recycle their urine- into beer...
- From Piss to Pilsner “beercycles” pee into brews Mon, 6 Jul 15, 11:30pmThe urine from the estimated 100,000 visitors to the Roskilde Festival in Denmark this summer will have the odd opportunity to recycle their urine- into beer...
- Smart ways to get a second use out of your spent coffee grounds Tue, 16 Jun 15, 7:20pmOver 50% of American adults drink at least one cup of coffee every single day. That is a lot of coffee grounds. For most enthusiastic coffee drinkers, though that aromatic ambrosia is what gets them out of bed in the morning,...
- Top 10 cities in the U.S. for urban farming Tue, 16 Jun 15, 2:30amPeople have been growing food and raising livestock across the United States for centuries—even in cities. But it wasn't until around the 1970s that backyard produce started showing up on sidewalks as well as in city parks...
- These biodegradable burial pods can turn cemeteries into forests Sat, 13 Jun 15, 3:30amMost of us have likely had the opportunity to visit a cemetery at some point, and walked through the endless rows of cold marble headstones and weeping angel statues...
- This woman can fit two years of trash in one small mason jar Sat, 6 Jun 15, 4:30amHave you ever thought about how much trash you produce in a day? How about a year or two years? The average person wastes 4.3 pounds of waste per day; that's 1,569 pounds per year. Not a great feeling, huh? One New Yorker...
- 12 organizations fighting food waste around the globe Sat, 6 Jun 15, 4:30amWe all heard our mothers say it when we were young, "Don't waste your food," or perhaps, "Take all you want but eat all you take." Whether you were threatened with having your dinner sent to poor children in China or you...
- Wooden Orchids reimagines the shopping mall as a living, breathing ecotopia Sat, 6 Jun 15, 2:15amWhat if you could go to a shopping center, and without having to search or try very hard, every single aspect of it was genuinely green and sustainable? This is what Vincent Callebaut strives to achieve with Wooden Orchids,...
- Julian Lechner’s Kaffeeform espresso cups made of coffee grounds are dishwasher safe Thu, 4 Jun 15, 6:57amCan you imagine how many tons of coffee grounds go to waste every day as people worldwide feed their caffeine habit on a daily basis? Concerned about this very thing, German designer Julian Lechner found a way to turn coffee...
- Kaffeeform espresso cups made of coffee grounds are dishwasher safe Wed, 3 Jun 15, 10:00pmCan you imagine how many tons of coffee grounds go to waste every day as people worldwide feed their caffeine habit on a daily basis? Concerned about this very thing, German designer Julian Lechner found a way to turn coffee...
- Woman accidentally tosses rare Apple I computer worth $200,000 Wed, 3 Jun 15, 12:00amThe managers of a recycling center in Silicon Valley are looking for a woman who dropped off an extremely rare early Apple I computer, which turned out to be worth $200,000...
- The Urbanite Home rescues oil barrels from landfills to create upcycled modern furniture Mon, 1 Jun 15, 11:30pmEvery single day MILLIONS of oil barrels are produced and disposed of across the globe, and since they have little scrap value, most of them are tragically discarded into landfills, contributing to global environmental and...
- 8 incredible parks created from landfills Tue, 2 Jun 15, 4:10am1. Mt. Trashmore, Virginia Beach Talk about turning trash into treasure - the satirically dubbed Mount Trashmore went from being an abandoned landfill to becoming the Virginia's most visited park. Tony Hawk, among several...
- The Urbanite rescues oil barrels from landfills to create upcycled modern furniture Mon, 1 Jun 15, 11:30pmEvery single day MILLIONS of oil barrels are produced and disposed of across the globe, and since they have little scrap value, most of them are tragically discarded into landfills, contributing to global environmental and...