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Kingscross Skip Garden Turns Old Skips Into a Verdant Edible Garden

Old skips have been transformed into a lush and verdant organic vegetable garden at Kingscross Skip Garden . Situated in the center of London on a former bus park site, the garden has been designed to be largely self sustaining, thanks to a full complement of organic gardening practices, including aerobic and worm composting, companion and rotational... [Read more from this category]

Latvian Designers Create Bowls from Real Money

A duo of Latvian designers make a statement about contemporary currency through a series of bowls made from the shredded pieces of up to 3,000 GB pounds! These vessels are full of symbolism with their intriguing material and suspect form.  Artus Analts and Rudolfs Strelis purposefully make the bowls unstable, giving them the ability to become saucer-like... [Read more from this category]

Bamboo and 2,000 Plastic Bottles Make Up Vegetable Nursery Home in Vietnam

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SOLO Home Design Creates Chic Contemporary Furniture From Recycled Materials

SOLO creates chic one of a kind furnishings and home accessories using recycled and repurposed materials . Based out of Chicago, the studio works with many local businesses to collect objects and give them new life. SOLO ‘s walnut breakfast table showcases an antiqued salvaged steel ring, and their oversized floor pillows are constructed with... [Read more from this category]

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Green Living

Kingscross Skip Garden Turns Old Skips Into a Verdant Edible Garden

Old skips have been transformed into a lush and verdant organic vegetable garden at Kingscross Skip Garden . Situated in the center of London on a former bus park site, the garden has been designed to be largely self sustaining, thanks to a full complement of organic gardening practices, including aerobic and worm composting, companion and rotational... [Read more from this category]

100-Year-Old Utah Church Lifted 40 Feet Above Ground Without Moving an Inch

Read the rest of 100-Year-Old Utah Church Lifted 40 Feet Above Ground Without Moving an Inch Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: building shell , church restoration , churches , construction materials , construction sites , destroyed houses , Floating Church Utah , Mormon temple Utah , Provo Tabernacle Utah , reconstruction , restoration... [Read more from this category]

Audi’s Traffic Light Recognition Technology Could Save Up to 238 Million Gallons of Fuel While Reducing Emissions

Everyone knows how annoying it can be to hit every red light on a daily commute, and how stopping and accelerating for those pesky red lights also costs you more at the pump. Fortunately, Audi’s new Traffic Light Recognition technology may save the day. The new traffic light information system could save 238 million gallons of fuel every year... [Read more from this category]

Scientists Train Genetically Modified E. coli Bacteria to Mass Produce Super Strong Spider’s Silk

Spider’s silk is such an amazing and versatile substance, it’s hard not to get the feeling that Mother Nature intended it for much more than a sticky web in the corner. This seemingly insignificant thread is equal to steel in tensile strength while maintaining the flexibility of rubber. It conducts heat 800 times better than any other... [Read more from this category]

Yojiro Oshima’s Beautifully Sculpted Bicycle is Made Almost Entirely From Wood

This amazing wooden bicycle was completely hand-crafted by Yojiro Oshima, a design student at the Craft&Industrial Department at Musashino Art University in Tokyo. The wooden bike features a sculptural wooden frame that softens the ride while retaining an optimal level of stiffness. Read the rest of Yojiro Oshima’s Beautifully Sculpted Bicycle... [Read more from this category]

Rolls-Royce Announces Plans for Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Within the Next Three Years

When you think of Rolls-Royce , images of large, twelve-cylinder luxury vehicles will likely come to mind. But Rolls-Royce’s image could become a bit greener in the next few years, as the automaker just announced plans to introduce its first ever plug-in hybrid model. Read the rest of Rolls-Royce Announces Plans for Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle Within... [Read more from this category]

Watersquare Benthemplein is the World’s First Public Water Park Fed by Collected Rainwater

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The Dirty Truth Behind Pear Packaging – and Why You Should Always Buy Organic

In the age of 24-hour supermarkets and strawberries in December, we’ve become disconnected from the reality of food. Grocery store shelves are always stocked, so we rarely stop to think about where food came from, how it was grown, and why it’s packaged the way it is. Take pears, for instance. They’re often wrapped in bits of tissue... [Read more from this category]

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