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Art and design are a part of anything we build, but these designers and artists are particularly informed by the natural order and chaos that surrounds us in our daily lives. Some draw on recycled materials while others find meaning in environmental patterns – some are focused on sustainability with a message and others are interested in aesthetics.

Squeal Wheels Tour: The Top 10 Cutest Electric Cars

These 10 cute-as-can-be electric cars and electric car concepts add a fluffy dollop of squeal appeal to your sustainable, pollution-free driving experience.

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Movable Homes: 13 Modern, Modular, Relocatable Residences

These compact, often self-sufficient structures are easily assembled and disassembled so they can go anywhere you want to be - even remote mountain ridges.

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(Re)Make it Rain: Rainwater Reclamation Designs

Rain barrels aren't your only rain harvesting option - you could choose decorative downspout planters, 2-liter bottles or a garden table that doubles as a tank.

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Dark Towers to Beach Bunkers: Architecture of Hugon Kowalski

Stark, dark and bleak, the architecture of Hugon Kowalski takes a no-frills, utilitarian approach to facing the climate change-induced problems of the future.

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Glow Away: 10 Odd Objects Made From Uranium Glass

These 10 odd Uranium Glass (also known as Vaseline Glass) home and tableware items may glow vividly green under UV light but emit negligible radioactivity.

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Plastic Fantastic: Cracking Art Group Colors Our World

Cracking Art Group's ethically responsible approach to ambient art involves creating outsized animal assemblages expressed in colorful recycled plastic.

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Chic and Natural: 13 More Rustic Modern Interiors

The raw natural characteristics of brick, stone and wood give these renovated lofts, barns & more a sense of history and a touch of rustic charm.

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Elegant Tree Building is Half Learning, Half Play

This gorgeous building mixes work and play to create a singularly fantastic addition to a Japanese kindergarten site.

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Refab Paradise: Ruined Factory Becomes Dream Retreat

An abandoned paper factory in Taipei, taken over by nature, is adapted into a new exhibition hall while preserving the chaotic beauty of the crumbling space.

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The Great Outdoors: Office Space Goes Green and Open-Air

This fun installation is part art, part social commentary, and all eco-friendly. Designers moved an entire office outdoors and took "green" to the extreme!

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15 (More!) Terrific Towering Tree Houses

Romantic fairytale treehouses with spiraling staircases and streamlined, modern stainless steel versions climb high into the sky.

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Cycle Crazy: 14 Smart & Stylish Bike Storage Solutions

As bicycles grow in popularity - especially in cities - bike storage solutions, from wall hooks to public racks, are getting more innovative and functional.

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A Constructive Concept: Growing Germs to Wire the Desert

A specific type of soil bacteria could be used in conjunction with 3D printers to create inexpensive, low-waste materials with which to build electric towers.

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Spectacular Steel Reclamation Center Building Design

A boomerang-shaped steel building hovers over an auto scrapyard in this futuristic design for a steel recycling research and education center in California.

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Island In the (Air)Stream: Floating Sculpture Goes Missing

Have you seen this island? The creators are searching for the lushly vegetated floating sculpture after it was cut free during a U.K. festival in July.

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