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Sustainability
De-urbanized lifestyles can be aligned with basic Taoist principles — and remote workers are starting to feel the connection.
We have become the greatest threat to ourselves and to life on this planet. We need a set of agreed-upon safeguards to preserve our future.
Stone buildings in northern India reveal secrets of old structures that could save lives.
Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.
Nagomi helps us find balance in discord by unifying the elements of life while staying true to ourselves.
Ocean fertilization is extremely controversial, but if done correctly, it just might work.
The acceptance of our cosmic loneliness and the rarity of our planet is a wakeup call.
John Templeton Foundation
Without modularization, many epic projects simply would be impossible.
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What beavers and earthworms can teach us about working with, not against, Mother Nature.
Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
Beer's flavor begins to change as soon as it is packaged. Are cans or bottles better at preserving flavor?
Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?
Parking lots are about one-fifth of all land in U.S. city centers, making them "easy to get to, but not worth arriving at."
The jail environment teaches the animals that approaching humans results in a boring and annoying experience.
Civil engineer Martin Lebek has a brilliant plan to redress the world’s phosphorus imbalance.
Quelle horreur! Paris isn't just a 15-minute city; it's a five-minute city.
Frugality can also benefit the environment.
Million Stories
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
3D-printing robots are being used to build a 100-home housing development in the US state of Texas.
The typical car is parked 95% of the time.
It’s sustainable, nutritious and delicious. Scientists need to ramp up efforts to meet this urgent need.
According to Peter Ward's "Medea hypothesis," photosynthesizing organisms regularly doom most life on Earth by over-consuming carbon dioxide.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
Innovative thinking has done away with problems that long dogged the electric devices — and both scientists and environmentalists are excited about the possibilities.
Entrenched business wisdom says that community-led economic systems are pure fantasy. Douglas Rushkoff disagrees.
Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won't.
Communication among cetaceans, like whales and dolphins, looks especially promising.