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HA Schult arrives in Israel with an army of 500 ‘Trash People’

German artist HA Schult has spent the last 18 years traveling around the world with his own army of ‘trash people.’ Like a modern version...

World’s largest trash mural makes life in Syria a little less awful

Anyone who hasn’t been to Syria in the last few years can’t possibly grasp the full extent of the horrors Syrians have endured, but we...

Floating Majlis meeting rooms made of recycled fishing nets in Dubai

Majlis are the boardrooms of the Arab world. A traditional ‘place of sitting’ often adorned with cushions on the floor, they are used to receive...

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 supply....

Ecoppia cleans solar panels for more energy

Solar parks in the desert face two major challenges: a lot of dust on the photovoltaic panels and not enough water to clean them. Dust...

Hit the switch and join millions for Earth Hour 2014

It’s Earth Hour this weekend, which means you have the chance to join millions of people around the globe in a united effort to consume...

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 their...

Nature solar shelters are hybrid acacia “trees” sprouting electricity and shade

No African tree is more recognizable than the Acacia with its prickly canopy that provides shade for wild animals across the savannah. Samuel Wilkinson has...

This “Green Machine” mobile city fertilizes the Sahara Desert as it moves

Posterity may end up migrating from place to place to find food like our nomadic ancestors did if we don’t get a hold of desertification...

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 travel...
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