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Habitecture
LANGUAGE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE hab•i•tec•ture Tiny houses and great cathedrals, carbon-neutral skyscrapers and Airstream trailers: architecture is among the greatest of human crafts. Just imagine if the...
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Can local food feed an urban world?
Data Collection | October 2016 Can Local Food Feed an Urban World? Researchers dig into the efficacy of urban agriculture By Sarah DeWeerdt Once upon a time everybody ate local food. No one called...
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How We Think about E-Waste Is in Need of Repair
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Art That Delivers Clean Water & Power
PHOTO ESSAY Art That Delivers Clean Water & Power An international competition challenges designers to show that clean energy production and dazzling public art can be one and the same Read More
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Imagine There’s No Drivers
FEATURE Imagine There’s No Drivers And no traffic lights. And no parking lots. It isn’t hard to do. By Jim Motavalli Read More
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Habitat with Humanity
FEATURE Habitat with Humanity Making creative accommodations for the urban wild Read More
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The residential macrosystem
IDEA WATCH 6•21•17 The Residential Macrosystem Managed collectively, backyards could become more biodiverse landscapes By Courtney Humphries Cities around the United States are setting ambitious...
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The Rise of the Wooden Skyscraper
IDEA WATCH JULY 2017 The Rise of the Wooden Skyscraper New, mass-timber engineering could transform the twenty-first-century city from a carbon source into a carbon sink By Susan Moran The...
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Instead of Trump’s Wall, Let’s Build a Border of Solar Panels
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The Circular Economy Made Real
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This Is Roquette Science
FOOD This is Roquette Science How computerized arugula (aka roquette) farms take over the world By Nathanael Johnson The latest world-changing idea for agriculture sprouted three years ago, not from...
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One Man’s Trash . . .
IDEA WATCH One Man’s Trash . . . Mining landfills for metals and energy By Joshua Jacobs In a village 60 miles east of Brussels, a Belgian company is fighting to launch an experiment with the future...
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Are We Approaching Peak Stuff?
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Does driving an electric car help decarbonize the economy?
©Roadsworth LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS Does driving an electric car help decarbonize the economy? By Pierre-Olivier Roy In 2016, CIRAIG embarked on an environmental life cycle assessment that dug into...
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The Race to Reinvent Cement
FEATURE The Race to Reinvent Cement The material that built the modern world is due for an upgrade. What if we could transform cement from a climate wrecker into a carbon sponge? By Akshat Rathi Read...
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Amphibious Architecture
IDEA WATCH Amphibious Architecture Float when it floods By Emily Anthes Last June, not long after a catastrophic thunderstorm swept through southern Ontario, bringing a month’s worth of rain in just...
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Hacking Nature
©Melanie Gonick/MIT Hacking Nature For decades, humans have modeled technology on observations of the natural world. But new discoveries about nature—and tools for manipulating it—have opened up novel...
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Do plastic bag bans make a difference?
Do Plastic Bag Bans Make A Difference? Like so many life-cycle assessments, it’s never that simple. The environmental impact of plastic-bag bans is a good news–bad news story. By Pierre-Olivier Roy...
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How to Die in The Anthropocene
Artist’s vision of future Recompose facility with vessels ©MOLT Studios COMPOST THYSELF How to Die in The Anthropocene Death is inevitable, but its environmental toll may not have to be By Jennifer...
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This Is How Blockchain Could Upend the Grid
DEMOCRATIZING ENERGY This Is How Blockchain Could Upend the Grid by allowing people to buy and sell energy in small increments from, and to, their neighbors By Katharine Gammon In 2016, when Dave...
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