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Chile-based designer Margarita Follert has created a sustainable, biodegradable alternative to single-use packaging, using raw material extracted from algae.

Overtreders W has built a temporary barn from borrowed materials to host a pop-up zero waste restaurant for Lowlands Festival 2018 in the Netherlands.

A pop-up restaurant that is built from recycled food packaging and that composts all of its leftovers has been set up at the WantedDesign Manhattan fair.

Brooklyn-based design studio Crème uses home-grown vegetables to produce a sustainable alternative to disposable coffee cups.

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Oliver Wainwright on why the concept has got rightwing MPs worried

Austria is launching a new transport pass, Klimaticket. It gives passengers unlimited rides on trains, buses, trams and metro lines that costs about $3.50 (3 euro) a day.

Workspace Furniture for Greenpeace office in London

For most of the history of our species, in most parts of the world, bathing has been a collective act. In ancient Asia, the practice was a religious ritual believed to have medical benefits related to the purification of the soul and body. For the...

A conference of urbanists set to convene next month aims to find out.

Cities around the world are seeing dwindling numbers of fossil-fuel powered cars on their streets, and many are planning to keep it that way after lockdowns ease.

Yesterday, Jeremy Till (who I’m proud to say was at one point my university tutor) shared with me a link to this extraordinary interview…

Planet-friendly cups, straws, cutlery, bowls and tape made from natural clay or sugarcane. Available in different sizes and colours. Order online now.

Today, fragile contexts are the centre of the global development crisis and poised to bear the worst of the pandemic and climate change. Even before COVID-19, some 80% of the world’s poorest were estimated to live in fragile contexts by 2030—the end of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The active compound in magic mushrooms seems to increase connections between different brain networks.

Policy makers, primary producers, consumers and businesses got together to imagine the bioeconomy of the future. The policy recommendations are now out.

Automated wind-energy system brings portable renewables off-grid

Shoes are notoriously hard to recycle and the vast majority are sent to landfill. Can a new design help reduce the environmental impact of our footwear?

À Cadenet, village du Vaucluse, des habitant·es ont réfléchi ensemble, durant plusieurs mois, à leurs aspirations pour une alimentation désirable. Leur convention citoyenne locale a débouché sur la création (…)

With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures -- and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

By making manufacturing technology available and affordable, maker spaces like BLOQS are knocking down barriers.

In Maine, an enormous 3D printer is turning natural materials into sustainable, carbon-sequestering homes.

Architect David Benjamin is bringing his biology-inspired recipe for construction materials to an affordable housing project in Oakland, California.

More than 60 ready-to-print home designs. High-design and high-performance residential architecture available at all price points.

based in chile, zerocabin seeks to mimic naturally occuring systems, orienting its PV panel-clad roof like a leaf toward the sun.

the 'waveline magnet' is a modular, lightweight, and low-cost energy converter that seamlessly follows wave movement in any water environment.

RCA graduate Kosuke Araki has created a range of tableware from recycled food waste.

Lei is an entirely self-sufficient aroma diffuser, powered only by the heat and gentle flame of a small candle. The generated power from the flame turns the propeller, which creates a light breeze that permeates your space with aromas from essential oils. Lei means "zero" in Japanese and

C'est un retour au temps long qui attire de plus en plus de voyageurs. Et la coopérative Sailcoop, qui veut faire des voiliers une alternative durable à l'avion, ne s'y trompe pas. Depuis le 6 mai, elle met le cap sur la Corse depuis Toulon. En quelques jours, son carnet de réservation s'est rempli à une vitesse folle, signe d'un engouement pour des mobilités plus sobres.

ford engineers have produced footrests and car boots using recycled olive tree waste and fibers and are now exploring mass production.

In an effort to combat the plastic waste crisis, biotech startup Sway has created a seaweed-based alternative to plastic packaging.