Tag: Portugal

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  Polkatoikea Is a Brilliant Mashup Of Le Corbusier, Mobile Homes, Kurokawa And IKEA

  An urban multistorey trailer park may be the answer to affordable housing.

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  Reversing the Desert: How Understanding Water Can Heal Our Earth (Video)

  Sustainable, natural water management is not just important for greener communities. It is absolutely central to our survival. Here's how one community is holding back the desert.

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  Portuguese Prefab Has Movable, Customizable Walls

  Flexible system lets you rearrange interiors according to your needs

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  Cyclist Rides from Lisbon to Istanbul to Raise Money for Charity and Promote Climate Awareness

  Istanbul's small but dedicated cycling community rallied this week to help an American biker navigate the city's dangerous roads --

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  A Travelling Hotel Suite Shows Guests and Hoteliers How to be Green (Photos)

  After visiting a hotel in Guadalajara, the centre of Spain, at the beginning of the year, the Travelling Eco Suite is currently spending time in Portugal. The Spanish boutique hotel chain Rusticae got together with the architects from Modulab, Egoin

• Closet House: Big Moving Closet Wall Changes Spaces

  It's not exactly Gary Chang's domestic transformer four minutes of wow, but this Portuguese apartment has a giant moving closet that separates the living area from the sleeping, and much like the winner in the LifeEdited

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  The Cork House by Arquitectos Anónimos (Photos)

  Image Credit: Ivo Canelas Cork has fascinated me for a long time; it's fully renewable and you don't even have to cut the whole tree, it's biodegradable and has curious characteristic such as insulating and shock absorbance. I came across many ugly

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  Lisbon Store Interior Built From Cardboard

  Fabrizio Gallanti of Abitare, the wonderful Italian design magazine, sends us LOW, a store and bar in Lisbon designed by Pedro Campos Costa and built entirely out of cardboard. The products sold are all made from at least 50% recycled materials, so it

• Cork vs Plastic: How Real Cork is Harvested and Why It Matters

  Pablo has already talked about the environmental pros and cons of wine corks, and Kara has also looked at the real versus synthetic cork debate. (On the other hand, when Kristin talked about the recyclable benefits of

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  Ryan Frank's New Cork iPad, iPhone, Kindle + Laptop Sleeves for TAPE (Photos)

  All images via http://ryanfrank.net/blog Apple fans must be rubbing their hands, and flexing their touch screen ready fingers, in anticipation as the iPad launch date swiftly approaches - April 3rd in the US. Predictably there will be an avalanche of

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  Portugal's New Bike Paths are Filled with Poetry (Video)

  Beautiful and romantic: a new set of bike paths placed next to the Tejo river, in Lisboa, are filled with phrases from O Guardador de Rebanhos, a poem by famous Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (which he wrote under one of

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  Real Life Flintstones House Lures Tourists in Portugal

  It's a bit of a shame that the easiest way to describe this magnificent structure requires reference to a cartoon from the 1960s, but the way in which it

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  Google/Guggenheim Shed Competition Winners Announced

  The results are in from the Design It competition, a Google mashup with the Guggenheim where 600 designers used Sketchup to design a shelter, no more that 100 square feet in floor area that provided a space for one person to study and sleep. There was

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  Cork Recycler and Shoe Company SOLE Team Up

  Ever wonder what happens to all of those corks you see collected in the bins at grocery stores? Seems like a great recycling program, if you can remember to bring the corks with you, but where do they go after that? Certainly not to get

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  Innovative Infrastructure: Separating Cyclists And Cars With A High-Speed Ramp

  Usually when pedestrians and cyclists are separated from cars at highways, it is the pedestrians who have to climb stairs and walk over the highway; cars get priority. So they often run across and get

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  Europe Celebrates Green Ways of Getting Around

  From Almada, Portugal, where residents will be able to swap recyclable materials for free rides on

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  12 Hip Green Hostels Around the Globe

  Fancy spending some time on an organic farm, practicing yoga and taking long walks through the hills? Or would you rather stay in an art-filled old downtown warehouse, and

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  Raquel M. Soares' Reclaimed Wooden Jewelry Makes Avant-Garde Statement

  When dressing up for drama, it's go big or go home. That's one mantra Portuguese designer Raquel M. Soares has taken to heart with her Boaba line of wooden jewelry, available at TOUCH. The bold statement pieces,