10 creative ways to get a handle on your fridge. So, about those billions of dollars of wasted food. While there’s…
Holgate Windmill: A New Spin On an Old Industry
A centuries-old mill gets back to work at last. When you’re on an urban hike around your own neighborhood, you don…
What Does $20 Billion In Wasted Food Look Like?
In Britain, the amount of yearly food waste can fill London’s Wembley Stadium. Here’s something humiliating.…
Good Vibrations: the Power in Pandemonium
The modern world needs to shut up. Every weekday I walk to work along one of my city’s streets, and I’ve giv…
17 Living Roofs: The High Tech Future of Architecture
We’ve always thought we had roofs covered. They had to be barren, hostile places the rain and the wildlife slid fr…
Where Cities Are Taking Us: 10 Urban Eco Trends
If you want a glimpse of our world in centuries to come, stroll round a city. Dystopian-mongering pessimists will now be…
10 Urban Infills
What do we do with ugly, unused land in the hearts of our cities? You could camp there, of course – but the real c…
9 Life-Changing Inventions the Experts Said Would Never Work
The lightbulb. The telephone. Email. If you’re a specialist in your field, there are two ways to become a househol…