Mission-style kitchens: Wood, beautiful joinery, handcrafted and simple. If a large oak tree falls on your property and you have the tools and know-how, or know a good carpenter... Love the …
Whole Tree Architecture
Use trees that no one wants (overcrowded, diseased, fallen, invasive, wind-bent, young growth) and create amazing buildings with them. Pioneering Whole Tree Architect Roald Gundersen of Whole Trees …
Plastic Bottle Schools
School buildings are the most important structures we can build—but they often go unbuilt because of a lack of available materials. Abundant plastic bottles could make the difference. Pepsi's Plastic …
Salvaged Kitchen Cabinets
Many new cabinets are made from particle board, which contains formaldehyde, a toxin that can cause eye, nose and respiratory irritation, and even cancer. Solid wood cabinets may be safer but are …
Urban & Institutional Green Roofs
Hotel Foroyar - Faroe Islands. Architects Friis & Moltke. Pic by catheadsix flickr.com L'Historial de Vendee, museum, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, France. Plan01 Architects, plan01.com California …
Floating Homes
Starting around 18,000 years ago, when the last ice age began receding, sea level has risen by about 400 feet. The National Climate Assessment forecasts a rise of up to 4 feet by 2100. Floating home …
Hundertwasser Architecture
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the father of the Green Roof. Born in Austria 1928, died at Sea 2000. Hundertwasser- Model for Hohe-Haine (High Groves), Dresden, 1998. hundertwasser.at "The …
Cardboard Furniture
In the U.S. we generate nearly 200 pounds of cardboard waste per person. Most is recycled, but some ends up being burned or in landfills, where it's the 2nd-most common item. Instead of a fiery death, …
Cordwood Homes
Cordwood homes and barns: Also known as stack wall, log end, stovewood or cordwood masonry. If you do the labor yourself, and use wood from your property, this is a very inexpensive and …
Can Construction
. Lightning Ridge, Australia www.boxvox.net Beer Can House Mailbox and a screen above made of can tops strung on wire. Houston, Texas. orangeshow.org Beer Can House Houston, …
Old Boats Become Furniture
Furniture made from old boats. The fishermen from the West coast of Africa decorate their boats with brightly coloured geometric designs. Artlantique Group Upcycled Boat Furniture The team of …
Bamboo Buildings
This fast-growing grass (not a tree) is even stronger than oak. Yes, you can build with it. Phyllostachys aurea, Tetragonoclamus angulatus, Phyllostachys nigra f. punctuata, Phyllostaches bamb. …
Bamboo Furniture
There are over 1600 species of bamboo; it's a fast-growing plant that's strong and can grow anywhere. Much more sustainable than slow-growing hardwoods. Bamboo Furniture: Chairs, Stools, and …
Gabions
Gabion (from Italian gabbia "big" and Latin cavea meaning "cage") a wire cage that is filled with stone or other hard broken substances. Great for retaining walls, privacy, noise reduction and heat …
Mirrored Buildings
Mirror House by MLRP is a transformation of an existing Playground Structure. A sustainable wood structure was covered with mirror polished stainless steel. "The mirrored gables create a sympathetic …
Bark Shingles
Bark was commonly used as home siding by the American Indians. Europeans arriving in America also found bark to be a useful siding. Chestnut siding was preferred until the chestnut blight killed the …
Klinker Brick
Deformed bricks become art. Klinker or clinker bricks were overcooked rejects, a product of intense and smokey coal-fired kilns. They were considered a waste product until early Craftsman builders …
Bark Walls
Bark comes indoors...Bark is long lasting and visually interesting. The World's Best Bark Walls Birch veneer wall panels, framed by split branches. Via: plumsiena.com Birch bark …
Seed Companies
For the past decade there has been an uproar in the vegetable seed business as Monsanto purchased Seminis in 2005, a seed conglomerate that has 40% of the U.S. vegetable seed market. More than 55 …
BP Oil Spill
Water-residents of the Gulf and the spill.... Sperm Whales Endangered By Oil Drilling Sperm Whales are inquisitive and investigate boats and oil rigs... It is somewhat ironic that an extensive …
DECT Phone Safety
Radiation from cell phones has been getting a lot of press of late but according to the BioInitiative Report cordless phones look to be just as dangerous as cell phones when it comes to brain tumors …
Flammable Ice
Flammable ice is also known as: methane ice, methane hydrate, methane clathrates. The Japanese have announced they have successfully extracted methane from a methane hydrate reservoir 30 miles …
Perfluorinated Compounds
Perfluorinated Compounds (PFC's) are in us and all around us.. Microwave popcorn bags are coated with PFCs, which migrate into the food when heated. Why Are Perflourinated Compounds Used? PFC's …
Toxins in Leather Shoes
Have your feet ever turned blue, or black, or red from a pair of shoes or sandals? Even Traditional Leather Tanning Was Toxic If you have ever driven or walked near a leather tannery you know …
Midway Island Albatross
Why we should be recycling every tiny scrap of plastic... Chris Jordan's Heart-Wrenching Photographs Photographer Chris Jordan specializes in large-scale works that depict the magnitude of our …
Plastic Packaging Waste
The environmental impact cost of manufacturing each plastic is measured in $/ton. HDPE, LDPE, PP, and PS have roughly the same environmental impact rating. PETE is about twice as high as these four. …
Koch Brothers’ Products
Koch Brothers Products — We're Surrounded. If you have been following news about the Koch brothers, you might be curious as to which products they manufacture. It turns out, the Koch …
Flame Retardants
Flame retardants, so light, so small, so much...they are everywhere. In the United States, fires claim over 3,500 lives a year and injure more than 18,000. To help prevent these life-threatening …
Mother And Baby Dolphin
A Tribute to Dolphin Mothers and their Calves Flickr www.bio.davidson.edu www.blogs.orlandosentinel.com www.perthnow.com.au Australia www.tools.goldcoast.com.au By …
Cell Phone Radiation in Images
When you initiate a mobile call, your cell transmits to the closest base station (also called a cell tower). The base station then contacts the switching station, which figures out and keeps track of, …
Chemical Fertilizer Issues
Dark red circles indicate oil spills and gray-shaded areas indicate sea pollution and land pollution from chemical fertilizers. Originally found at …
Tree Houses! From The Past Into The Future
In the future, will we give back the land to native plants and animals and live up in the trees? Hovering aircraft are available now, we just need to wait for the clean energy versions. If we compost …
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Vertical Farming
The current 3.3 billion global urban population is expected to grow to 5 billion by 2025. Today our agricultural footprint is the size of South America...what will it be tomorrow? Vertical Farming …
Where is the Hunger?
Where is the Hunger? Light Gray: Insufficient DataBurgundy color: > 35%Orange/Red: 25-34%Yellow/Orange: 15-24%Yellow: 5-14%Green: < 5% This map shows the prevalence of …
Planned-opolis: Planning the City’s Future
One of four scenarios exploring how we will live and travel in the cities of 2040. Cities must consider radical changes to transport ahead of the anticipated urban population explosion. By 2040 two in …
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