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Handmade Dutch Bike Is All-Wooden -- Down To The Spokes
There's a lot of wooden bikes out there, ranging from the glue-it-yourself, no-metal kind, to award-winning, high-end designer bikes. But this near all-wooden bike, handmade by Dutch industrial designer Jan Gunneweg, must be one of
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Greek Company Gives Pay Rises to Employees That Protect the Environment and Themselves
Recently I met the Spanish partners of Coco-mat, a greek company that makes sleeping products out of natural materials. The products are fantastic; made in Greece from renewable materials such as wood, wool, cotton, sea grass,
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How Tiny Solar Trucks Can Save American Cities
Feeling like the shine has worn off that bright vision of electric vehicles saving the world? If you drove anywhere this Labor Day weekend you likely shared the freeways with an endless stream of diesel-driven truck traffic
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Most Popular Articles of August: 13-Year-Old's Science Project, 121-Year-Old's All-Natural Diet, and More (Slideshow)
The long Labor Day weekend (for our American readers, at least) is a bittersweet moment; the extra day off also signals the end of summer. In honor of another season gone, here are the 10 most popular stories we covered in August,
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Futuro Flying Saucer Prefab Lands In Rotterdam
The Futuro, designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1964, was a technological and design tour de force, built in an optimistic era when Bucky Fuller, Archigram and Joe Columbo were
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Compact Kitchen Folds Up And Hides When Not Needed
Almost every kitchen you see, no matter how big or how small, seems to have the same form, an upper cabinet a foot deep, a lower cabinet two feet deep, and a counter in the middle. Really, little has changed since
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Fun With Subway Commuting: Riders Zip Down Playground Slide to Enter Dutch Metro Station (Video)
Let's face it: Even on the nicest, newest subway or bus, commuting is a bit of a grind. One metro station in the Netherlands, though, has sought to liven up the experience -- by installing a slide that riders can zip down instead of taking the stairs.
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Newspapers Recycled Into Paper Timber & Furniture by Mieke Meijer / Vij5
From do-it-yourself cat litter to hand-rolled jewelry beads and mulch, newspapers can offer versatile options for re-use after they've been read. From Dutch designer Mieke Meijer comes what she calls "NewspaperWood," which can
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Gorgeous Bike Storage Building Shows How To Treat A Bike Right
In some countries, cyclists are seen as more than rule-breaking freeloaders who slow down cars; they are seen as a viable part of the transportation system that needs its own infrastructure investment. For instance,
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P-Tree, A Panacea For Public Peeing Problems (For Men, Anyways)
We are perhaps a bit preoccupied with pee at TreeHugger. But it is valuable stuff that we just flush away, or worse, create the problem of public peeing. Rogier Martens and Sam van Veluw of AANDEBOOM have addressed the problem
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Are Organic Farms As Cruel As Conventional? (Video)
When I posted video of a "humane" slaughterhouse, reactions varied from "meat is still murder" to outright respect for someone taking care to do the job right. But just what constitutes humane animal husbandry, and whether the
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CityHub Plug-In Pop-Up Modular Hotel Is A Better Capsule
Building hotels is expensive, and so is staying in them, particularly in Europe. Sem Schuurkes and Pieter van Tilburg have developed an L shaped pop-up hotel room that can be put in any building. Unlike Japanese capsule hotels, the L shape gives one
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Biologist Counting How Many Bugs Are Killed by Cars
Entomologists estimate there to be around a quintillion individual insects on the planet -- that's 1 followed by eighteen 0's, by the way -- but what no one really knows is how many of those are killed when our cars smash
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New Sustainable Prefabs From Being Homes Have "Timeless Design"
Le Corbusier said "Good Architects borrow, but great architects steal", and he stole the line from Picasso. It is all about being comfortable and talented enough to pay explicit homage to a master, instead of just
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Dutch To Build Solar Panels Into Their Roads, Starting With Bike Lanes
The Dutch are well known for their ubiquitous bike lanes, to the point where Amsterdam is neck and neck with Copenhagen for the title of most bike-loving capital in Europe. Now, Denmark will have to come up with something big to
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Trees Aren't Straight; With BoleFloor, Neither Are Floorboards.
Why are floorboards straight when trees are not? Dutch flooring company Bolefloor says "It wasn't nature that created straight floorboards: it was the limitations of technology." They have a really interesting idea, using "wood
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Shell Denies Allegations in Nigeria, Where an Exxon Valdez-sized Spill Occurs Annually
Despite a long history of blatant environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria, Shell denied in a Dutch public hearing this week allegations of using "nontransparent, inconsistent and misleading figures" regarding the causes of oil
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Ben & Jerry's Factory to Convert Ice Cream Waste into Energy
Unilever is taking a Ben & Jerry's factory in the Netherlands a green step forward: constructing a bio-digester that will convert the waste products from ice cream production and provide for 40 percent of the factory's green energy
