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How A Tiny Country Like Netherlands Feeds The World
Despite its size, the Netherlands is a top agricultural exporter. How’s this possible? The agricultural intensification of the…
7 Small Steps You Can Do To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Climate change requires drastic steps and complex solutions to be fully controlled. However, you don’t have to do…
Saudi Arabia Is Building Neom City, A Futuristic Green-Powered Megacity
Saudi Arabia recently announced a plan to build a megacity called Neom City, meaning “New Future”. The dream…
Three Ways Cities Can Help Feed The World, Without Costing The Earth
Climate change is underway, and human activities such as urbanisation, industrialisation and food production are key contributors. Food…
Step Inside The Hidden Green Spaces Of Cities Around The World
For centuries, the church of St-Dunstan-in-the-East, in London, has been a place for quiet contemplation. It was constructed in the…
Urban Organicity, The Benefits Without The Maladies?
Cities – we are repeatedly told – are the future. Governments and global corporations seek to increase productivity…
The World’s Greenest City Out Of Dreams, Oil, Pearls, And Sand.
A decade ago Dubai had one of the largest ecological footprints of any city in the world. By…
Bringing Back The ‘Seoul’ In Seoul, South Korea
Seoul, capital of South Korea, a modern metropolis. A booming economy with a technologically advanced infrastructure. Skyscrapers abound.…
Why These 10 Cities Are Best For Growing Food
Homes in these cities have the most gardens, greenhouses and chicken coops. With continued awareness around GMOs, pesticides,…
Why Farming Should Return Back To (Pre)school
A group of architects proposed a new design to help raise environmentally responsible kids. Under the distant gaze…
Cities Must Help Produce More Food
If the world is going to feed its growing and increasingly urban population in the face of climate…
The Future Of Urban Farms In Shipping Containers
In shipping containers, urban farmers can grow a large yield in small spaces. The gray lot under the…
The Internet Predicts Interesting 2016 Events
It’s the end of 2015, and many are using the occasion to look back on the major moments…
The 10 Best City Gardens Of The World
“City Gardens have environmental benefits. It provides a sense of connectivity and connection to the environment.” Gardens may…
How Wyoming Enjoys Quality Local Produce With Vertical Farms
With harsh winters and a remote location, Jackson, Wyoming, has been unusually dependent on food trucked in from…
How Earth Will Evolve 10,000 Years From Now
Climate change means the end of our world, but the beginning of another—one with a new set of…
How To Raise Awareness About Population Explosion
How do you raise awareness about population explosion? One group thought that the simplest way would be to…
Designing Google’s HQ Like Designing Software
Designed by Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels, the company’s new California headquarters are glass domes set in a…
Vertical Farms To Sprout Up In Cities
Designed for Linkoping, Sweden, this 177-foot vertical farm features crops grown on spirals that run down the building.…
Grow Calgary : Community Urban Farm
Grow Calgary is an urban farm located close to Canada Olympic Park. This year, they are growing 15…
What’s The World’s Coldest City?
Yellowknife in Canada, where windchill regularly takes the temperature below -30C? Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, where you have to…