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Cabin Spacey

Cabin Spacey offers 'pay-as-you-live, location-independent' prefab homes

This company is working to build a network of urban prefabs under a 'pay-as-you-go' model of home ownership.

Kimberley Mok

By Kimberley Mok in Modular Design September 20, 2018

noma entrance

Bjarke Ingels designs an elegant, restrained new Noma

Green Architecture

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 24, 2018

carbon smart

Architecture 2030 goes after embodied carbon and this is a very big deal

Green Architecture

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 21, 2018

Tess Kelly Photography

Ingenious micro-apartment renovation includes a 'disappearing kitchen' (Video)

Interior Design

Kimberley Mok

By Kimberley Mok September 21, 2018

a parklet in Toronto

Taking back the streets: How Park(ing) Day became Park(ing) Year

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 21, 2018

House before renovation

A look back at the original chainsaw retrofit of 1982

Green Architecture

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 21, 2018

boy in room

Can a smart vent system keep you comfy?

Sustainable Product Design

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 20, 2018

Star Innovation Centre

No sweat in this shop: Garment factory is renovated to Passivhaus standard

Green Architecture

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 19, 2018

vision zero report, mayor says everything is fine.

Has Vision Zero lost its way?

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 18, 2018

Vincent Bouhours - Tiny house Baluchon

The Intrepide is a charmingly modern tiny house in the French Alps

Kimberley Mok

By Kimberley Mok September 18, 2018

Flooded houses in Conway, South Carolina, September 17

North American houses turn to mush in a flood. What can we do about it?

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 18, 2018

Clare Colins

60-year-old woman becomes full-time photographer & van dweller (Video)

Kimberley Mok

By Kimberley Mok September 14, 2018

jumping over tables

What we learned about Apple Park from the keynote intro

Green Architecture

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 14, 2018

Speeding police officer gets eight months for killing pedestrian

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 14, 2018

Enterprise Centre

Why embodied carbon is so important and what designers can do about it

Green Architecture

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 13, 2018

Highlite

Utopian sewage treatment plant & educational center gets poetic

Kimberley Mok

By Kimberley Mok September 13, 2018

Lisa Jackson of Apple

The iPhone is greener, but that's not the big sustainability story

Sustainable Product Design

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 13, 2018

this is your brain thinking about kitchen exhaust

Exhaustive new study looks at kitchen exhaust and household air quality

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter September 13, 2018

Gabriela Sladkova

The Wanderer tiny home packs loft-free bedroom & extra loft

Kimberley Mok

By Kimberley Mok September 12, 2018

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solar roadway in france

Solar road in France generates half the power expected

fast food dinner

Straw bans won't fix the plastic problem, but something else can

dolphins whales

Whales and dolphins playing is the perfect escape (video)

noma entrance

Bjarke Ingels designs an elegant, restrained new Noma

airport with stop sign

Why all is lost: increasing demand for jet fuel will be bigger than savings from electric cars

man cooking

20 habits of frugal people

chicken

Why I no longer have backyard chickens

Jade plant

5 houseplants for removing indoor air pollution

stemware

Young people don't want their parents' stuff

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