How To Bring a Dull Dorm Room to Life With Plants

July 30, 2018

With college dorm move-in day around the corner, it’s time to think about how to personalize this space. Maybe you’ve already snagged colorful bedding, a rug, and some colorful wall decor. Now bring your dull dorm room to life with Read More...

From Cargo Beds to Flower Beds: Japanese Pop-Up Gardens Keep on Truckin’

July 25, 2018

Gardens on four wheels? Some mobile gardens are on casters for portability and to chase the sun, others are traveling green roofs on the tops of busses and vans, and still others sprout in the backs of trucks.

Every year … Read More...

New Orleans: Spanish Moss, Swamps, and Great Sax

July 24, 2018

Updated September 2024

Driving across the intersection at Magazine and Napoleon Streets, I pass through a cloud of thousands of tiny soap bubbles floating across four street lanes from one side to the other. Then, as I turn the next Read More...

Flower Messenger Bikes: Azuma Makoto’s Performance Art in Streets of São Paulo

July 18, 2018

Avant-garde botanical artist Azuma Makoto’s works are narratives about the ephemeral nature of life; fleeting moments to be experienced with passion before they disappear. 

In his past works, Makoto has frozen vibrantly hued botanicals in large blocks of ice, created Read More...

Biodegradable Bee Saving Paper May Keep Them Buzzing

July 12, 2018

My kingdom for your Bee Saving Paper says the queen. This biodegradable paper becomes an “energy drink” for bees. To attract them, the paper contains a paste made from the same form of energy-rich glucose that beekeepers use during the … Read More...

A Futuristic Self-Contained Eco-Village of Homes Enclosed in Greenhouses

July 11, 2018

Imagine living in a self-sustaining eco-village of homes enclosed in greenhouses

A new community in the Netherlands will harness the latest technologies to create a closed-loop system that will produce its own solar and biogas power, grow organic vegetables,

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