A little bit of extra height can make all the difference in a small apartment. Maybe its time to retire the 8’ standard ceiling height and pump it a bit higher?
What if you could grow and sell food in the same place? What would that look like? That is the radical idea behind Ben Greene’s innovative sustainable agriculture project, called The Farmery.
The Farmery is a radical vision of what farms and grocery stores can be
Find the cleanest, safest beaches with updated Swim Guide app
The free app covers 5,000 beaches across North America.
3D printing found in nature with this strange cocoon. Can you guess what species it is?
As the UN pressures Australia to better protect the Great Barrier Reef, here are some images of the spectacular wildlife harboured by this vast stretch of coral. From a manta ray cruising over a shipwreck to the effervescent ribbon eel, it’s a reminder of what is at stake.
Photograph: Reinhard Dirscherl/Corbis
Protesters clash with police across Brazil as civil unrest roils across country
Protesters in several major cities in Brazil are up in arms over hikes in mass transit prices — from $1.5 to $1.6 — as well as over the $15 billion earmarked for the two sports events amid calls for more health and education funding. After a march against higher public transportation fares and the use of public funds to finance international football tournaments on June 17, 2013, the protests turned violent and clashes with the police ensued.
(via nationalpost)
A number of artists have created urban dwellings for city birds, and now the designers Vaulout & Dyèvre create the same type of habitat for bugs with their project “Insectopia.”
Researchers create housecat-inspired robot: By now, you’ve all seen the amazing robotic cheetah from Boston Dynamics that was able to smash Usain Bolt’s speed record. Well, it looks like that big cheetah bot now has a little brother called the “cheetah-cub robot” that is more closely modeled after a house cat.
Bloomberg plans to get New Yorkers composting
We recently learned that 100 New York City restaurants would be participating in a food waste composting program. Now, The New York Times reports that Mayor Bloomberg, who in February called food waste “New York City’s final recycling frontier”, will soon announce a new composting plan that aims to divert 100,000 tons of food scraps from landfills each year and become mandatory city-wide by 2016.
