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Wood & Technology Become the Axalko, a Unique Bicycle for Professional Cyclists And Nature Lovers (Video)

An amazing wooden bicycle, hand-made in Spain by two brothers for professional cyclists. The wooden frame is lightweight, resistant and beautiful!




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Amazing waterproof and oilproof coating (video)

No wonder the video went viral -- it looks like magic. But Ultra Ever Dry appears to be the real thing.




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Is digital fabrication and 3D printing sustainable?

Kris De Decker questions some of our most cherished assumptions.




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Ping pong holds promise for improving Parkinson’s symptoms

After weekly ping pong sessions, participants in a pilot study had significant improvements in speech, handwriting, getting dressed, getting out of bed, and walking.




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How to prepare for a quarantine

From what food to buy to how to access your medical records, here are the practical matters to consider before a pandemic strikes.




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Gratitude exercises don't help with depression or anxiety

Telling people to be grateful for what they have doesn't help alleviate symptoms of depression or anxiety, according to new research.




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Pray for Rain

He has encouraged people to pray for the following week, in attempt to bring rainfall. "Throughout our history,




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Mississippi Governor Barbour Opposes Widespread Beach Berm Building In Louisiana

"People are visible Wednesday, June 6, 2007, on the beach in Dauphin Island, Ala., where a section of the $4 million protective sand berm was washed away by higher-than-usual tides over the weekend. An intact section of the berm can be seen in the




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Half a million American homes don't have proper plumbing

They have toilets but they just dump the sewage out the back. This is nuts.




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<em>The Mesh</em> Explains Why the Present <em>and</em> Future of Business is Sharing (Book Review)

Lisa Gansky sees a new emerging business model emerging. One she has dubbed, The Mesh. "... one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide those choices." A model




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Woman Pepper-Sprays 20 In "Competitive Shopping" Spree on Black Friday

She claims it's not a problem, "It's just a food product, essentially."




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To nobody's surprise, London's Walkie Talkie wins the Carbuncle Cup

This building alternately fries the public, blows them off their feet and cheats them out of promised public amenities. And did I mention it's bloated, top-heavy and just plain ugly.




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Tall Wood Building Prize of $3 million shared between two timber towers

A condo in Manhattan and a mixed use 12 story building in Portland get a boost.




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8 storey Cross-Laminated Timber apartments win Finlandia Prize for Architecture

Building "combines affordable housing with wood construction and the promotion of new technologies."




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And the top prize in the UK wood award goes to a fishing hut

There was a big pile of beautiful lumber to choose from too.




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TreeHugger hero Thomas Thwaites wins an Ig Nobel Prize for being a goat

And why not? It sounds like fun, just hanging around, eating grass




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Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to scientists studying circadian rhythms

Perhaps now our body clocks will get the attention they deserve.




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Bloomberg’s European HQ wins RIBA Stirling Prize

But is it "the last flourish of a high-resource approach to design and construction"?




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In this time of global warming, we now have a Global Cooling Prize

Big bucks go to the teams that come up with an air conditioner that's five times as good.




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RIBA Stirling prize goes to Passivhaus social housing project

The most prestigious prize in British architecture is given to the solidly green project rather than the flash in the pan.




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Brazilian women urged to avoid pregnancy due to virus

The Zika virus, borne by mosquitoes, has been linked to a surge in microcephaly in newborn babies.




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Shop class deserves a more prominent role in schools

Girls and boys have a lot to gain from learning to work with their hands




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Lighten up: Primary steel production is responsible for up to 9 percent of CO2 emissions

We have to use less of the stuff in our cars, our buildings, and our infrastructure.




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Canadian Conservative leader (and possible Prime Minister) promises the earth

Andrew Scheer is a climate arsonist.




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Canadian retailers want a 'harmonized approach to reducing single-use plastic'

Provincial regulation would make stores' waste-reduction efforts easier to manage.




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Presidents' Day Survey: Who Is The Greenest President?

The results of our annual survey are often surprising.




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Are people clueless when it comes to their carbon footprints?

Or are they just fooling themselves and being selfish?




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The surprising link between Pilates and the 1918 flu pandemic

The origins of Joseph Pilates' regimented workout program began when he was sequestered in an internment camp in England during WWI.




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Architects have to deal with the "wicked problem of embodied carbon."

A British critic calls two green icons, rammed earth and Passivhaus, "architectural trickery at its most cynical."




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Smart Masonry proposes lighter concrete buildings, built by robots

Can digital fabrication and robotic construction techniques help reduce the carbon emissions of concrete?




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In praise of Brutalist architecture

The ones we have left should be preserved; they don't make them like they used to.




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Yes, concrete is pretty much as terrible for the climate as we thought.

A Chinese study says concrete actually sucks up CO2. This is not news, it's chemistry.




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Cement production makes more CO2 than all the trucks in the world

But nobody is buying greener cement because it costs more.




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Rio+20 Final Draft Text Recognizes Our Problem, Proposes Scant Few Concrete Solutions

There's plenty of "recognizing," "acknowledging," and "noting" going on in the final draft of the Rio+20 text. Lot's of UN-ese. And that's about it.




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Clothing firms Joe Fresh and Primark to compensate victims of Bangladesh building collapse

Good for the Westons, owners of both, for doing the right thing by admitting their use of the factory and their willingness to help out.




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Solar 3D printers take manufacturing off the grid

Groups working in developing regions could use solar-powered 3D printers to make tools, lab supplies and more on the go.




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Wakati solar-powered food preserver keeps produce fresh longer in developing areas

The large solar-powered box will help farmers get more food to the market for selling.




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Researchers produce electricity with paper, tape and a pencil

The device made from household objects could replace AA batteries for powering small electronics.




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Two high-profile murders in Honduras have led developers to suspend funding

In a victory for Berta Cáceres' campaign against a major hydroelectric project, two European development banks have withdrawn support following her and a colleague's recent murders.




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New e-commerce site is a one-stop-shop for humanitarian aid products

The Level Market wants to make the procurement of humanitarian aid and development products as easy as shopping on Amazon.




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Less isn’t always more when it comes to product packaging

“Lightweighting” often shrinks down packaging into items that are unrecyclable, difficult to capture, highly polluted and designed without end-of-life solutions.




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Shifting our gaze to improve the health of the world’s oceans

Why oceans, why now?




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Everyday people can invest in organizations that protect the environment

Average consumers of all incomes have the ability to meaningfully invest in organizations doing good work




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Food production must change drastically to save world

Latest IPCC report calls for urgent action in the way land is used.




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Mesmerizing kinetic light installation interprets phases of the moon (Video)

Using a series of rotating LED lights, this work highlights the visually transformative powers of the Moon.




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Overtourism: Can this problem be solved?

Yes, but first we need to develop a collective conscience when it comes to travel.




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Here's a good analogy for the carbon budget problem

Imagine a bucket of greenhouse gases that's almost full.




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Photos of nature proving its resilience

No matter how hard we may try to tame her, Mother Nature always comes back to claim her turf.




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Unilever promises to cut plastic use in half by 2025

The consumer products giant says it will "fundamentally rethink its approach to packaging."




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REI's Opt-to-Act plan will lower your carbon footprint, one week at a time

Because a single day of #OptOutside isn't enough for real action.