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Helen Pidd: 'Believe it or not, the choice of bamboo as a building material is less about appealing to Guardian readers than about making a superstrong yet light bicycle'
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Cop26 menu focuses on plant-based dishes with 80% Scottish food
Each item will have an estimate of its carbon footprint, so visitors can make ‘climate-friendly choices’
It’s the ‘Swiss army knife of the sea’. But can kelp survive rising marine heat?
As warming oceans threaten the farming of the sustainable crop, scientists work to make the industry climate resilient
Power when the sun doesn’t shine
Form Energy, co-founded by MIT materials scientist Yet-Ming Chiang, is incorporating renewables into the grid using their iron-air batteries and research from the lab of MIT IDSS Professor Jessika Trancik.
The Uruguayan company teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs
Organización Autolibre is teaching individuals and companies across 14 countries to retrofit vehicles. Critics worry about the process’s safety.
India's schoolgirls are leading a silent cycling revolution
The most notable rise in cycling in India has occurred among rural schoolgirls, a study finds.
low-cost replicable tiny house addresses india’s residential needs with its adaptable interior
harshit singh kothari and tanvi jain reveal the tiny house, a residence serving as a prototype for affordable living in indore, india.
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"We can't pretend that aesthetics are not important when it comes to sustainability"
Sustainability must be incorporated into architecture projects in a truly holistic way in order to support the green transition, writes Trimble SketchUp's Andrew Corney as part of Dezeen's Climate Salon partnership with the software company.
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How a monk and a Hippo joined forces to tackle Bangkok’s plastic pollution
The abbot of a temple in the Thai capital had already built up a recycling facility, but now he has a floating ally in his struggle to clean up the Chao Praya River
The great DIY revival: meet the people who’ll try to fix anything
A new repair subculture is flourishing across the UK. Meet the experts and tinkerers sharing lost skills to make do and mend
Colorado’s growing approach to solving chronic homelessness: Permanent housing with few rules
Jefferson Center and WellPower of Denver are building permanent supportive housing complexes modeled after a 2017 Denver building that still has a waitlist.
LA restricts water flow to wasteful celebrity mansions: ‘No matter how rich, we’ll treat you the same’
The city’s water department has a small yet effective solution to keep its famous residents’ water use in check – a flow restrictor
Rwanda’s homegrown EV leader sets its sights on Kenya
Ampersand hopes to replicate its small-market success in East Africa’s largest economy.
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How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money
From baby clothes to popcorn makers, borrowing items rather than buying them is a growing trend
Loop Biotech - Let's enrich nature
Explore sustainable funeral solutions with Loop Biotech, an innovative provider specializing in mushroom coffins, urns, and carriers.
Top 10 countries where public ownership is totally normal
Public ownership is flourishing across Europe!
interview: in a former bread factory in milan, NIKE injects algae and bio ingredients in shoes
with ISPA (improvise, scavenge, protect, adapt), NIKE reforms old shoes with bio materials like algae, a take informed by circularity.
circular and recyclable FREITAG backpack is made of only one material, from fabric to straps
for FREITAG, nylon 6 is versatile and adaptable enough to create all 17 components that make up the first circular and recyclable backpack.
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A possible solution for Australia's tradie shortage? 90,000 migrants
The construction industry's top representative body says Australia needs to consider migrant workers to address chronic tradesperson shortages. Mr Yathavan from CENTEX Homes explains more
The zero-waste city: what Kiel in Germany can teach the world
When it comes to recycling, Kiel has pulled ahead of the crowd, with its ban on single-use items, plans for leftover meals and innovative ideas for discarded human hair
Even though waste-cutting efforts like Kiel’s are fairly novel in Germany, recycling is firmly rooted in the culture. In 2021, Germans collected more than two-thirds of their municipal solid waste to be repurposed – more than any other country in Europe. They burned most of the rest for energy, and dumped just 1% in landfills (the EU average is 16%).
Superblocks to the rescue: Barcelona’s plan to give streets back to residents | Cities | The Guardian
The Catalan capital’s radical new strategy will restrict traffic to a number of big roads, drastically reducing pollution and turning secondary streets into ‘citizen spaces’ for culture, leisure and...
Floating factories of artificial leaves could make green fuel for jets and ships
Cambridge University scientists develop a device to ‘defossilise’ the economy using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide
The world's best building? A remote Brazilian school made out of wood
This year’s Royal Institute of British Architects prize goes to the timber and mud-brick Children Village, which doesn’t need air-con even in 45 degree heat
Singaporean restaurant unveils two Solein-based dishes, creating a Mala-flavoured taste of the future - Solar Foods
The Singaporean restaurant Chengdu Bowl is introducing two new vegan dishes on its menu on 2 April. The flavours are familiar, but the novel ingredient Solein® is making the recipes truly unique and futuristic.
Eating light: Finnish startup begins making food ‘from air and solar power’
Maker hopes solein, protein grown with CO2 and electricity, will cut environmental impact of farming
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Margarita Follert develops algae-based alternative to single-use plastic packaging
Chile-based designer Margarita Follert has created a sustainable, biodegradable alternative to single-use packaging, using raw material extracted from algae.