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A Control Freak's Guide to Good Living
How controlling are you? There’s a problem with the word "control". It’s recently gone bad. When w…
Simone Lourenco: Apprenticed to Nature
If Nature is an artist, she works at a very advanced level. All that asymmetry, scattered tumbling shapes and apparent c…
Things Not to Tell the Joneses #65: Our Table Is a Bowling Alley
Bowling alleys – you have to love them. Yes, I’m a guy, I would say that – but I’m talking about…
Eco Links to Green Your Weekend #5
It’s Friday: let’s get linky. Skinny-skinny’s marvellous book of soap (seen here at Oh Joy!) is for th…
Meet Greenwashing's Twin: Greenscouring
As the world’s environmental problems continue to make themselves abundantly known, we find more and more innovati…
What You're Really Standing on When You Go to the Beach
It’s nearing that time of year: the official season of standing on the shoreline while the waves nibble away the s…
Hatch Your Own Herbs
Egg shells would make brilliant plant-pots. Since real eggshells are nowhere big enough, designers at Branch have creat…