Faced with escalating population pressure and new construction technologies, western architects are designing cities in the skies, and under the sea. If built, these will…
Plastic bags are essentially indestructible, yet they're used and thrown away with reckless abandon. Most end up in the ocean, where they pollute the water…
Seminar by Ram Fishman, assistant professor of Economics and International Affairs at George Washington University The Stockholm Resilience Centre is a new international center that…
Graphene, a nanostructure, has many different usages. For instance, imagine the world where you would be able to desalinate water with a tool that can…
Isobel Yeung explored the growth of Monsanto's pesticide resistant GMOs and its consequences. This is her debrief from Season 3 Episode 9 of VICE on…
This new home in Columbia City, US, can claim to not only be energy efficient, nor only to make sustainable use of materials - reclaimed…
Worldwide, violence is on the decline, but in the crowded cities of the global south — cities like Aleppo, Bamako and Caracas — violence is…
California leads the nation in energy-efficiency standards, thanks to legislation that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emission levels by 2020 through smarter energy use and…
Janette Sadik-Khan, Principal, Bloomberg Associates Donald Shoup, Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, UCLA John Zimmer,…
Researchers have opened a pilot plant that converts carbon dioxide and slag, the by-product of steel manufacturing, into a valuable mineral product. The product, Precipitated…