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Category: Art, Environment

An interesting project from Toronto: My Street Has No Trees (MSHNT) is a public and participatory installation that utilises the vestigial design of Toronto’s post and ring bike stands as armatures for micro-gardens. The intent of the project is to raise awareness about the imbalance between the hardscapes and softscapes of our streets, to encourage people to think critically about the transformative possibilities of our everyday environments, and to increase the beauty and joy of our neighbourhoods. View

Category: Design, Entrepreneurs, Environment, Futurology

Scaling down the concept of urban farming into something bite-size and digestible, Shanghai based creative Hiroyuki Shinohara has developed a mini office farm using only waste products such as bottle tops and coffee filters. A zero waste project, as it uses only what was already there, sees his ‘Transportable... Read more

Category: Design, Environment, Futurology

We may not be far off a time where we can simply wash our clothes by hanging them outside on the washing line. Studies conducted by Chinese scientists have successfully used sunlight to remove orange dye stains from cotton fabric, that was treated with a special coating. Mingce Long and Deyong Wu created the... Read more