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ZARA Fast Fashion Retailer Under Fire for Polluting China’s Waterways

Spanish fast fashion company Zara has come under intense fire recently for failing to address a Greenpeace report released last year outlining the textile...

10 Cool Garbage Cans for Middle East Trash

Would innovative waste disposal devices make for tidier Jordanians? Year Two in the Hashemite Kingdom, and my honeymoon with Amman is kaput.  It’s impossible to...

Clever Tel-O-Porter Bike Trailer Boosts Israel’s Shared Bike Program

Just when we thought that urban cycling had reached its zenith, Israeli designer Udi Rimon essentially rendered Tel Aviv's cars redundant with his design...

Israelis Design Cardboard Wheelchairs for Africa

Izhar Gafni and the same team behind the already world-famous cardboard bicycle have added a few other items to their repertoire, including a cardboard...

Eco Craft That Junk Drawer Into Toddler Discovery Toy

Execute some alchemy and turn random junk and recyclables into a smart toy for your toddler.  This takes so little time and attracts such rave...

Enter the Biomimicry Design Competition for a Shot at $5,000

This is the fourth time that the Biomimicry 3.8 institute is staging their international design competition and this year they are inviting students to...

Wake Up To These 7 Eco-Clocks

Mornings are getting darker. Need a pick me up? Tick tock: try an eco clock. Israel daylight savings already sent summertime packing, but the rest of...

Electree’s Solar Bonsai Tree to Electrify Our Techno Toys

Where’s a charger when you need one? My device-addicted household is always running short on chargers for cell phones and laptops and iPods. I...

Egyptian Mummy Gets a LEGO Heart at Cambridge Universtiy

An engineering student used LEGO to help restore an ancient Egyptian mummy case at Cambridge University. The 10th Century BC Hor Mummy case excavated...

650 Handcrafted Oak Pieces Went Into This Fine Mashrabiya Table

Mashrabiya screens are a common element in Middle Eastern architecture and yet few people outside the design world realize how much work goes into...

Waterless Dishwasher From Turkey Cleans up After Every Meal

Turkish designers who anticipate severe water shortages in the next few decades have designed the dualWash - a waterless dish washer that cleans single dishes...

Clothing Laced With Live Bacteria is Weirdly Cool

Sarine Zaken is the world's first designer to incorporate living bacteria into clothing and jewelry that people can actually wear! A third year student...

Mud and Mirrors Make Interactive Eco-Art in Morocco

Icelandic artist Elín Hansdóttir has combined mud and mirrors in this unusual interactive eco-art exhibit for Morocco. Designed as part of the Marrakech Biennale earlier...

Turn Disposable Water Bottle into Pencil Case: Upcycling Tutorial

Now that the kids are back at school, time to go green and continue the celebrations with this back-to-school tutorial. Parents will need to...

Dror Benshetrit’s VIP Hub for Exclusive Cross-over Designers

Developing a new ecosystem for multi-disciplinary design? Will this need high-end design hub earmark space for sustainable design? If you think Ikea has got the...

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

Turning Your Energy Consultancy into an LLC: 4 Legal Steps for Founders in Texas

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

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Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

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Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

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Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.

Jean-Pierre Conte: Five Principles That Guide My Philanthropic Decisions

Jean Pierre Conte is the chairman and managing director of Genstar Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm with investments in healthcare, software, financial services and industrial technology.

Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.
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