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The edible Ooho water bottle could save us from plastic

Plastic. No word assaults our sensibilities more. Plastic in the bellies of baby birds; plastic strangling marine animals; plastic leaching chemicals into our water...

Powerful scrap sculptures depict life in Beirut’s Shatila refugee camp

The nearly 10,000 Palestinian refugees packed into southern Beirut's Shatila camp live in makeshift homes of corrugated tin, and many long to return to...

See world’s largest collection of Bauhaus architecture from your desk

Tel Aviv has a lot to offer visitors, including the world's largest collection of Bauhaus buildings. But for design lovers who are unable to...

Lady Gaga in a coffee filter dress

Lady Gaga - who refuses to be censored - was voluntarily "filtered" during her recent appearance on American TV talk show Jimmy Kimmel...

A $9000 dome home for early retirement in Thailand

A former flight attendant has grounded himself in Thailand in a masonry dome-home he built in just six weeks. The 500 square foot structure...

10 refugee shelters we hate to love

Refugees spend on average twelve years in their temporary homes, which got us thinking: what makes a good shelter?

Stylin’ gel wristbands sniff out chemicals killing your body

Pack away the clunky radon-detectors and carbon monoxide alarms! Silicone wristbands have emerged as the simplest of environmental warning devices - cheap to manufacture...

How green is your abaya?

Designers from around the world will parade their latest collections in Abu Dhabi’s first-ever Eco Fashion Show, a five-day event featuring couture-with-a-conscience this April. ...

Shapeshifting shelters for refugees in hot and cold climates

With roughly 600 Syrian refugees crossing into Jordan every day, it's no surprise that local architects are designing various housing solutions for the devastating...

Reusable, stackable emergency shelters for Syrian refugees in need

Our breakaway story about collapsible woven shelters (click here) designed to restore dignity to refugees around the world was so popular, we decided to...

Egypt’s ghostly abandoned theater – litter writ large

On the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, tucked in the dusty foothills of an Egyptian mountain range, sit hundreds of seats in an...

Collapsible woven refugee shelters powered by the sun

More than 40 million people worldwide have been displaced from their homes and left to find shelter in strange lands. Maybe they find a...

Living crop wall to showcase Israel’s agricultural genius at the 2015 Milan Expo

Israelis are renowned not only for their clean tech innovation, but also smart, savvy and water-efficient agriculture. This genius will be on display at the...

Casablanca’s ‘Gardens of Anfa’ are wrapped in bougainvilleas and jasmine

Maison Edouard François designed a colorful new mixed-used residential master plan for Casablanca, a cosmopolitan Moroccan city made famous by a movie with the...

Aganetha Dyck works with bees to create incredible honeycomb art

Canadian artist Aganetha Dyck knows honeybees not just as pollinators that ensure the rest of the world has food on the table, but as...

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