Recycle

Backcountry Hut Company designs rugged flat-packed cabins for wilderness enthusiasts

The design team said in their brief for this project that The Backcountry Hut Company’s genesis was inspired by an idea pioneered by IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, which is to provide “affordable well-designed products ‘for the many people’”. They said an engineered wood post-and-beam skeleton is in-filled with prefabricated panels... [Read more from this category]

Shakespeare’s famous Globe Theater gets a modern take with shipping containers

The structure is true to the original Globe Theater design, but instead of wood, it is enveloped in industrial mesh that filters daylight and allows the building to come alive at night. Project leader, architect Nicholas Leahy of Perkins Eastman, and structural engineer Michael Ludvik already collaborated on the London Globe project in the 1980s, before... [Read more from this category]

Punah Project recycles industrial waste into fashion-forward accessories

It’s not often that manufacturing companies are overly concerned with the environmental impact of their excessive waste , but one of India’s largest manufacturing conglomerates, Godrej & Boyce , is shrewdly turning theirs into a fashion-forward gold mine. Under the initiative Punah Project , the company has created a circular economy by... [Read more from this category]

Artist turns urban trash into amazing animal murals

We’ve featured Bordalo II’s works around the streets of Lisbon previously , and the prolific artist has continued to spread his environmental message around the world from the Unexpected art project in Ft. Smith, Arkansas to the Street Art Jam 2016 in Estonia. His lifelike animal sculptures are made almost entirely from trash and other locally... [Read more from this category]

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Green Living

Incredibly preserved 1950s Time Capsule House in Dallas could be yours

Originally designed by renowned architect Gordon Nichols in 1954 and restored by its current owner, graphic designer Carlos Cardoza in 1994, the four-bedroom house features an open-plan layout , original cabinetry, a retro swimming pool and vaulted ceilings. Related: Award-winning renovation slashes mid-century home’s carbon footprint by 80% It is... [Read more from this category]

GreenBiz Studio: Angela Nahikian, Steelcase

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GreenBiz Studio: Commissioner David Hochschild

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Special performance by Butterscotch Clinton

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Help move hundreds of chimpanzees from labs to a safe haven in Georgia

Research on chimpanzees , the great ape thought to be most closely related to humans, is at last coming to an end. Last summer the US Fish and Wildlife Service declared captive chimpanzees endangered, which effectively made most chimpanzee research illegal. Now nine chimpanzees have moved from a Louisiana lab to a Georgia mountain sanctuary . Hundreds... [Read more from this category]

Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Project kicks off 5-city tour of China

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde’s Smog Free Tower is now open to the public in Beijing, the first of five Chinese cities on the Smog Free Project China tour. The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection is backing the project, which launches today in the city center. Roosegaarde says the tour promotes the “dream of clean air and the beginning... [Read more from this category]

Morgan Freeman converts his Mississippi ranch into a giant sanctuary for wild bees

Morgan Freeman has played so many roles during his long Hollywood career it’s difficult to keep track, but his newest role may prove to be his most important. The actor has turned his 124-acre Mississippi ranch into a sanctuary for wild bees , in an effort to help support population growth for the little pollinators. Freeman started beekeeping in... [Read more from this category]

Apple confirms massive six-floor campus in London’s former Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station Company has confirmed their ” largest office tenant ” in London will be none other than tech company Apple . The electronics giant will sprawl across six floors and 500,000 square feet inside the “central Boiler House” of the former power station. Apple has said they plan to occupy the space in 2021;... [Read more from this category]

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