Glass walls, natural growing plants and wood will meet you everywhere you go in the Sekisui House. The Sumu Fumu Terrace in Minato City, Japan was designed by nendo architects in collaboration with Yukiko Tomotsune. Continue reading below Our Featured Videos The glass panels create an open, expansive design everywhere, no matter where you’re within the space. The glass panels […]
Located in a mountainous and nature-rich region of Shizuoka, Japan, the Pergola House was designed by Takayuki Kuzushima and Associates with the simple goal of merging into the environment. Continue reading below Our Featured Videos The client’s building site consisted of a main house that underwent minor improvements. There were also a series of ill-placed shacks that needed to be […]
JuneShine is an alcohol brand with a serious commitment to sustainability. For starters, they source 100% clean energy, combining carbon-free solar and wind energy through SDGE’s Power100 program. They use 100% organic ingredients and upcycled an old brewery for their operations. Furthermore, they use glassware instead of plastic in the breweries, treat wastewater to reuse it, use recycled products and […]
We often think of science as the study of nature. But now, science has the insight to replicate the most striking elements of nature. While some might imagine this type of manipulation as unethical or reminiscent of science fiction films, the result of synthetic biology can open the doors to limitless opportunities within the scientific world. Light Bio is leading the […]
An ancient cypress in southern Chile could be more than 5,000 years old, making it the world’s most aged tree, new research finds. Known as “Great Grandfather,” the endangered alerce tree lies in a ravine in Alerce Costero National Park. Scientists estimated its age using computer models based on data gathered from a sample. “This method tells us that 80 […]
Mask Architects designed Villa G02, a private mansion in Egypt for a client who wanted a luxury home that is sustainable and ecologically sound. All of this for a house that will sit on a manmade island offshore. Continue reading below Our Featured Videos “Our main goal was to be energy efficient, sustainable and ecological to create an eco-green artificial […]
Start-up brand Reefy has joined hands with a Dutch zoo to develop sustainable methods of restoring coral reefs in the wild. Their attempt is to create biodegradable material that coral can grow on instead of steel, plastic, and concrete options used in the past. Continue reading below Our Featured Videos “We have developed the first, stable, artificial reef to boost […]
Between limited mileage range and mining of rare earth minerals, battery issues have been a major sticking point for widespread adoption of electric vehicles. But a Tesla research team is working on a battery design that could last a whopping 100 years. Continue reading below Our Featured Videos World-renowned battery technology expert Jeff Dahn works at Dalhousie University in Halifax, […]
OOST Kampville is a container home cabin designed by Tung Jai Ork Baab near Bangkok, Thailand. It was built on low flooding land developed from rice paddies as a weekend house for a multi-generational family who wanted an escape from city life. The land was planted with orchards. Also, it has a small reservoir dug out to contain the trees […]
Climatologists, ecologists and various scientists say that planting trees is one of the best possible ways to undo some of the damage done in the last century. Now, you don’t have to physically go out and plant trees in order to plant trees. You can just do it on apps, a video game or right on your laptop. Continue reading […]