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How Greener Schoolyards Benefit Kids - and the whole community

September 18th 2024 / Architecture / 5 minute read
From Grist When Lois Brink’s kids were in elementary school, she remembers being struck by how uninviting their schoolyard was. She described it as “scorched earth” — little more than …
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How Greener Schoolyards Benefit Kids - and the whole community

September 18th 2024 / Architecture / 5 minute read
From Grist When Lois Brink’s kids were in elementary school, she remembers being struck by how uninviting their schoolyard was. She described it as “scorched earth” — little more than …

Stella McCartney releases jumpsuit made with iridescent BioSequins

April 5th 2023 / Business / 3 minute read
British fashion brand Stella McCartney has unveiled a sleeveless bodysuit adorned with Radiant Matter‘s bioplastic sequins made from tree cellulose. The skin-tight all-in-one, which was made in Stella McCartney‘s London atelier, is embellished with hundreds of shimmering sequins called …

‘The fungal awakening’: how we came to love (and fear) fungi

March 20th 2023 / Conservation / 15 minute read
After centuries of distrust and disdain, mushrooms are having their moment. From sci-fi smash hits to drug trials, an emerging league of mycophiles are bringing fungi out of the shadows

The importance of biophilic design for humans and architecture

March 13th 2023 / Architecture / 7 minute read
The psychological legacy of our survival instincts that lead us to feel better when we are in contact with nature is the basis of biophilic design, which is being used increasingly in architecture, from airports to urban spaces to businesses.
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Parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef show highest coral cover in 36 years

February 27th 2023 / Conservation / 5 minute read
Two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef showed the largest amount of coral cover in 36 years
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Giant Wind Turbine in China

February 20th 2023 / Cities / 4 minute read
Giant wind turbine rises up to 70 floors and occupies 9 football fields Chinese energy company MingYang has announced the creation of its next flagship offshore wind turbine, MySE 18.X-28X.

You Don’t Have to Be Complicit in Our Culture of Destruction

February 13th 2023 / Conservation / 2 minute read
Robin Wall Kimmerer, member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a professor at the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry, author of the essay collection, “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants.”

10 Simple steps to a more sustainable bathroom

February 6th 2023 / Conservation / 6 minute read
It’s often the smallest room in our homes, but it’s also the room which has the biggest environmental impact on our Earth and oceans.

Fuel made from ramen, dishes from coffee grounds: Japan rethinks food waste

January 16th 2023 / Business / 12 minute read
Here are three Japanese companies with solutions that they hope will help their country cut its food waste in half by 2030, perhaps saving a bit of the planet along the way.

HOW CENTURIES-OLD WHALING LOGS ARE FILLING GAPS IN OUR CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE

December 19th 2022 / Conservation / 8 minute read
Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century scientists on climate change.

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