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You might think it’s your colleagues or the pressures of work that’s getting you down at the office, but new research suggests it could well be the air you’re breathing instead. Scientists in the US have found that the concentration ...
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What will 2016 hold for green design and the environment? It’s a brand new year filled with boundless potential – and we’ve called upon some of the world’s most prominent designers, makers, movers, and shakers to help separate the signal ...
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You know how it goes – most of us kick off the new year in high spirits with ambitious resolutions, but how many of them end up falling flat by President’s Day? If you feel like you could use a ...
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We should be focusing on people, not buildings; that the real role of a building is to keep us healthy, happy, safe and comfortable. Energy is just an input, a variable; the fact that a comfortable building will use a ...
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Heatherwick Studio just unveiled plans to build a 15-acre tree-covered mountain in the middle of Shanghai. The studio was commissioned to design a complex of housing units, offices, shops, a hotel and a school for the plot located next to Shanghai‘s ...
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TreeHugger and just about everybody else in the green movement have spent the last decade talking about the importance of energy efficiency and our carbon footprint. Our general impact on the energy consumption and carbon footprint of our homes has ...
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In partnership with supermarket chain COOP Italia, design firm Carlo Ratti Associati imagines that the future of supermarkets will look like its ‘Future Food District concept. While self-checkout stations are slowly sweeping the nation, this digital grocery concept pushes technology ...
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It’s not quite a Christmas miracle, but we’ll take it. A number of big name hotels in the city have pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 30 percent over the next 10 years. Over 80 percent of ...
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Scientists are still figuring out the potential downsides of having the miniature computers known as smartphones forever in our pockets, but the research so far suggests that these devices are having a long-term detrimental effect on both our posture and ...