, droughts and massive industrial projects that are dramatically changing the face of the planet, but it’s still easy for those things to remain abstract concepts because the scale is so large. (Not to mention the new administration’s attempts to wipe out all mention of climate change...
This is why millions of people around the world are opposed to the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines just pushed through by Donald Trump. 53,000 gallons or around 1,260 barrels of oil was reported to have spilled on First Nations land in Saskatchewan, Canada last week, thoug...
are already rebelling against efforts to stifle the truth. Shortly after Badlands National Park tweets about climate change were removed, several new “rogue” Twitter accounts started popping up. One of the account claims to be run by current National Park Service (NPS) rangers working...
Working in collaboration with project Taste Aarhus, a culinary initiative geared to celebrating the city’s role of European Region of Gastronomy 2017, Impgaard designed the hut to resemble a seed as a metaphor for the new initiative, which seeks to make the city “sensuous and palatabl...
“Site layout was determined in relation to achieving a connection with the sea, while also generating connectivity with existing homes, but which, given its scale, was capable of projecting itself toward the coast as just another element of the landscape,” write the architects. A supp...
It should go without saying that altering or suppressing scientific information to fit Trump’s pro-fossil fuel agenda could be devastating to our ability to understand and respond to climate change and natural disasters. In fact, as Mashable points out , the gag order goes against the...
“Sustainability means life for future generations and integrity for the current one,” says Emilio Heredia, owner of the Papaya Playa Project. “Elevating the structure encourages the growth of jungle plants around the treehouse and ensures the building does not interfere with nature. W...
Nearly a decade ago Shannon O’Donnell, now a full time travel blogger, decided she wanted to travel solo around the world. She never thought it was a permanent gig, only that she wanted to change her perspective for a bit. Having grown up in a small town in central Florida, she’d neve...
A brand new layout and addition transformed a post-war brick house in The Netherlands into a modern family home with a new connection to its natural surroundings. Kraal Architecten and Lab-S worked together on renovating the residence in Zeist, introducing a timber-clad extension that...
an unmitigated success, scientists are preparing their own demonstration at the nation’s capital. It began, as many of these things do, with a stray comment. “There needs to be a Scientists’ March on Washington,” someone wrote on Reddit , where several scientists discussed their conce...
These particular Red Skittles, at first perplexing, were investigated and explained by local authorities. “The Skittles were confirmed to have fallen off the back of a truck,” wrote the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office. “The truck was a flatbed pickup and the Skittles were in a large box...
Whoever runs the Twitter account for Badlands National Park is a national hero. After the Trump Administration imposed a social media blackout on the National Park Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, Badlands Park fired off a series of tweets that flew in the face of pres...
The author of the Daily Mail study, Tormod Rogne, clearly has an agenda. Amongst other things, he makes the following statements: “Vitamin B-12 is an essential nutrient found only in products o f animal origin, such as meat, milk and eggs” and, “[p]regnant women who consume too few an...
The home’s design was meant to represent the homeowners’ paradoxical love of both travel and domesticity, “A family was looking for a new home able to represent their trips around the globe, their desire to live in a garden and to embody the cinematic diversity of domestic life. The r...
If you fed an 11-month-old nothing but cheese and crackers, the baby would be malnourished. If you fed an 11-month-old nothing but animal flesh, the baby would be malnourished. It would be ludicrous, however, to say that either of those cases represented any sort of “diet.” It’s not a...
The report helpfully profiles each of the City’s 32 geographic school districts and its two citywide special districts. Student homelessness was particularly high in certain areas of the Bronx, such as Highbridge and Fordham. For New York City to address family homelessness would requ...
We tend to think of architecture as fixed and unyielding, but what if it didn't have to be? One Italian artist, who has since passed on, explored the possibilities of living architecture with the astonishing Cattedrale Vegetale , a living, breathing cathedral made out of growing trees...
on Tuesday evening, “Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!” But his order alone may not be enough to instigate construction. Congress must authorize any new funding, according to The New York Times. Trump declared Mexico would ...
While scooters have long been a viable alternative to cars in urban areas, since they use less fuel and take up less space, all-electric scooters are not yet the standard. The Vespa Elettrica model was developed by the Piaggio Group, parent company to the Vespa brand and a leading mak...
When it comes to devastating natural disasters, earthquakes are high up on the list, but what many people don’t realize is that much of the damage in earthquakes occurs largely due to poorly constructed buildings and faulty infrastructure . Fortunately, there are many new technologies...
