BMW's new wireless pad recharges EV batteries like a Sonicare toothbrush
Several automakers have teased the idea of a wireless charging pad that would make it easier to charge your electric car and do away with that pesky charging cable, but no one has released it yet. Well...
View ArticleNew green school in Kibera slum replaces original started by concerned Kenyan...
A group of mothers started the Anwa primary school in Kibera, Kenya, where extremely poor children don't have access to education. Over time, the school has grown in attendance and needed a new...
View ArticleNew Passenger Drone can fly you to work hands-free with zero-emissions
Get ready to commute in style. For the past three years, Passenger Drone has been developing a zero-emissions, easy-to-use passenger drone that has the potential to eliminate stressful commutes. With...
View ArticleBIGs LEGO House officially opens to the public in Denmark
It’s finally here—Bjarke Ingels Group’s much-anticipated LEGO House in Denmark officially opens to the public today. Built in the small town of Billund where the iconic LEGO brick was invented, the...
View ArticleSolar-powered Villa H is a modern glass-fronted home in the Dutch dunes
Natural materials converge in the beautiful, tailor-made Villa H (Villa Hupkes) tucked into Rotterdam’s dune landscape. Architecture firm BERG + KLEIN designed this modern home for a client who wanted...
View ArticlePuerto Rico electricity crisis sparks interest in renewable energy
Hurricane Maria has left swaths of Puerto Rico without power - and millions of people could have to go without electricity for months. The storm's devastation has stirred new interest in obtaining more...
View ArticleThis twisting tower is made out of 2,000 3D-printed terracotta bricks
Related: Perforated screens made from reused terracotta tiles wrap around this house in Malaysia + The Faculty of Architecture at HKU and Sino Group Via The Faculty of Architecture at HKU and Sino...
View ArticleRocks in Canada hold oldest evidence of life we've found
3.95 billion year old rocks could offer the oldest fossil evidence we've found for life on Earth. A team led by the University of Tokyo found graphite that is biogenic, or produced by living organisms....
View ArticleBarrel-shaped wooden pod retreat in France inspired by real life 'bird charmer'
Related: Egg-shaped GreenPod office lets you work from almost anywhere + Aurélie Poirrier + Igor-Vassili Pouchkarevtch-Dragoche + Vincent O’Connor Via Archdaily Mr Plocq's Caballon, Loire river...
View ArticleCalifornia may ban gas and diesel-powered cars by 2030
Following in the footsteps of France, the UK, and Scotland, the state of California is now considering passing a ban on the sale of new gas and diesel-powered vehicles. The initiative — which is...
View ArticleTesla is shipping hundreds of Powerwall battery systems to Puerto Rico
Tesla, best known for its pioneering electric cars and major investments in energy storage technology, is stepping in to aid Puerto Rico in its recovery from Hurricane Maria by sending hundreds of...
View ArticleHundreds of organisms hitch a ride from Japan to Oregon on waves of plastic...
Japanese marine animals have made their way all the way to the United States with unlikely help from plastic garbage. The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan dumped debris into the ocean, and...
View ArticleEuropean parliament bans Monsanto from entering
Monsanto recently refused to be present at a hearing in which the European parliament planned to look into allegations the agrochemical company unduly influenced studies into glyphosate's safety,...
View ArticleSF Wave Organ captures the sounds of the sea to make haunting music
Installed in 1986, the Wave Organ is a somewhat obscure landmark, often overlooked due to its hard-to-find location at the end of a jetty east of the St. Francis Yacht Club. Making the trek out there,...
View ArticleGreenbuild: The world's biggest green building expo is coming to Boston
The world's biggest conference dedicated to green building is coming to Boston this November, and you won't want to miss it. The Greenbuild International Conference and Expo will bring together...
View ArticleElon Musk wants to build a rocket that can fly you from New York to Shanghai...
Imagine being able to travel from New York to Shanghai in just 30 minutes. If Elon Musk — the visionary behind PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla — succeeds with his newest vision, a trip of this kind will soon...
View ArticleOMAs MPavilion 2017 with a floating roof opens today in Melbourne
Melbourne is heating up for the summer with a new OMA-designed amphitheater. OMA founder Rem Koolhaas and colleague Daniel Gianotten just completed MPavilion 2017, a temporary pavilion that opened...
View ArticleStunning Lake Michigan home is built from dying ash reclaimed onsite
This stunning timber home by the lake sensitively embraces its Midwestern landscape with its design and use of local, reclaimed materials. Designed by Desai Chia Architects in collaboration with...
View ArticleNestl pays $200 per year to bottle water near Flint, Michigan - while...
For three years, residents of Flint, Michigan, have had to rely on sub-par bottled water to meet their daily needs. Though the crisis attracted national attention and inspired cities elsewhere to check...
View ArticleCouple builds tiny A-frame cabin in three weeks for only $700
Anyone dreaming of building their own affordable tiny cabin should check out this solar-powered cozy retreat photographer Alla Ponomareva and her husband Garrett built in Missoula, Montana, for around...
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