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The Postmodern Noah's Ark Used As A Tiny City

A fantastic design if this gets approved

What happens to decommissioned oil tankers? Normally, they further pollute the planet by being discarded and deemed non-recyclable. However, dutch designers have proposed a way of transforming them in to sustainable, re-purposed mini-cities. (more…)

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Art That Makes You Think - Endangered Animal Art

What would you do if you had an endangered (fake) animal stare at you all day?

Ever gone to someone’s house, full of ‘trophy‘ animals? It’s common to see deer and beers, but what about animals that are actually going extinct? Creator Lauren Wilde, owner of Wilde Animals mixed her love of animals with her career in special effects makeup to raise awareness about endangered wildlife. Pacific Walrus (more…)

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What Will the Earth Look Like in 2050?

Our population will double in a single lifetime, this is what might help sustain us all.

Introducing the groundbreaking documentary that explores how our population will have doubled by 2050, offering groundbreaking solutions to questions like how will consuming energy change? and what will our cities look like? (more…)

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Futuristic Architecture - 3D Printed Skyscraper Made With Desert Sands

If technology keeps progressing at the same rate, will towers like these will be the new norm?

Conceptualized in 2014 by Chinese designers, the Sand Babel is an ecological masterpiece, aimed at providing scientific research facilities and an attractive tourist destination in desert locations. Designers Qiu Song, Kang Pengfei, Bai Ying, Ren Nuoya, and Guo Shen pictured next to their proposed design. (more…)

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5 Highly Questionable Eco-Friendly Designs

When you're on your last whim trying to convince people to be eco

We know that being eco-friendly is all good and nice, but sometimes things can get a little bit bizarre. Here is our top 5 picks for hilarious, strange and frankly scary designs in the name of being ‘eco-friendly.’ (Disclaimer: This is NOT an excuse to stop up being eco-friendly by any means, simply a bit of a laugh at some people’s adaptions to saving the planet.) 1) A shower that forces you out…

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Trees Found to be Socially Connected - Will They Lose Their Connection if We Plant Them too Far Apart?

Welcome to the 'Wood Wide Web'

Peter Wohlleben, a German Forest Ranger recently wrote a best seller exclaiming that trees have social networks. Until now, humans thought of trees as “organic robots,” only made to produce wood and oxygen. “When I say, ‘Trees suckle their children,’ everyone knows immediately what I mean.” Image Credit: Gordon Welters for The New York Times (more…)

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Seattle’s Food Forest - Every City Needs This!

Looking for idea worth telling others? Make the conversation about food

Food forest’s are growing popular as more efficient and effective methods of their design become available. Seattle has followed suit with one of their own. (more…)

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Amazing Hunting Lodge Accessible Only by Foot or Horseback

This is the line between our history without cars and eye-catching, simple modern design.

Loved The Revenant movie’s landscape and hunting lifestyle? Now you can capture the experience in a modernly out-fitted hunting lodge – and hide from beers, with this beautifully positioned off-grid home in Etne, Hordaland, Norway. (more…)

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The Uses and Risks of Robotics: Should We Remain Skeptical?

The development of robotics are showing obvious trends

Unlike the futuristic capabilities of technology in films such as Star Wars, modern humans are struggling to adapt robotics in everyday life. Image source: Google images (more…)

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The New Zealand Town Where They Use a Different Kind of Currency

Time banking helped Lyttleton rebuild after the Christchurch earthquakes.

When the port town of Lyttleton was devastated by a series of earthquakes, time banking helped the community harness the resources to rebuild. Time banks provide a special kind of infrastructure for communities that enables people to access local skills and build social networks that aren’t dependent on money. Photograph: ImageZoo/Alamy (more…)

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The Interlace aka the Jenga-Like Apartments in Singapore

The micro-climate was one of the careful considerations for the Interlace's success.

Feeling like connecting back with nature? The Interlace, designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture was a design for maximum privacy, interconnections and comfort so you can live among roof-top gardens, landscaped gardens and more. Image credit: Office for Metropolitan Architecture (more…)

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The Power of Ontological Design with Jason Silva

"Your subconscious is a canvas and your surroundings are the painter of your being"

“Your subconscious is a canvas and your surroundings are the painter of your being” explains how the spaces human beings come in to contact with every day play major roles in shaping our lives. We are essentially the creators of reality through our built environment. (more…)

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Indoor Farming Could Help Support Local Food Growers

Could indoor farming be the solution to meet the needs of fast-growing cities?

As the population keeps on doubling over the years the global demand for food increases with it, could indoor farming be the solution to meet the needs of fast-growing cities? (more…)

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Scientific Breakthrough Opens the Door to Nuclear Fusion

Nuclear Fusion - a clean power source for the future?

This article was originally posted on IFLS. A website dedicated to make science exciting and present it in a creative, entertaining, engaging style that leaves readers with a sense of wonder and a desire to learn even more. You can Image credit: kasezo/Shutterstock Scientists say they have taken a step towards making the dream goal of nuclear fusion more achievable, by identifying the location of…

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