Did you ever have a treehouse in your childhood residence? How many hours have you spent inside it, feeling the relaxing breeze while enjoying your own private suite? And even if you didn’t have one growing up, how hard did you beg for your parents to build you one? You might be an adult now, …
Environment friendly
If you want to minimize your carbon footprint even in death, a biodegradable burial pod might be something worth considering. As people are buried six feet underground, the wood, the metals, and the synthetic cushioning used in traditional coffins and the concrete around reinforced graves continue to pollute the earth. Plenty of energy goes into …
Singapore is building a “forest town” in the island’s western region that will offer an abundance of nature to its future residents. Called Tengah, this will be the 24th settlement built by the country’s government since World War II. But with centralized cooling, automated garbage collection, and a car-free town center, this development is the …
As Europe gears toward becoming the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, the EU has been focusing on reinventing most of its architecture to fit the direction of its climate efforts. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, called for a new “European Bauhaus movement,” which sparked the development of what the west recognize …
Now that consumers are becoming more environmentally conscious, companies are trying to keep up with the rising demand for eco-friendly and cruelty-free products to help save the nature. Leather is one of the world’s most traded commodities, but the involvement of animal products and harsh chemicals in its manufacturing process is problematic. Animal lovers and …