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Going green starts at home, and gardening can be a great way to be a bit more sustainable, help the environment but also grow your own beautiful flowers or fresh vegetables. From guerrilla gardening to great plant stories and planting tips and tricks, here are some ways to make your home a more amazing and eco-friendly place.

Offbeat Rolling Residences: Converted Cabins on Wheels

Forget the sterile white aesthetic of mass-produced RVs: these converted buses and trucks are true houses on wheels, complete with porches and wood stoves.

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Low-Impact Lodging: Singapore's Stunning Eco Apartments

This gorgeous housing development in Singapore will be one of the most beautiful apartment complexes ever, with open courtyards and plenty of eco-features.

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Growing Green Art Made from Marvelous Moss

Moss makes for an unusual, tactile and eye-catching medium in art and design including jewelry, bath mats, graffiti and even shoes.

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Wild Green Interiors: Seeding Your Home With Lush Mossy Decor

Bringing the outdoors "inside" continues to be a design trend with serious staying power since your decor gets a shot of green & your body can breathe easy, too!

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Anything But Stony: Lovely Living Moss Sculptures

Most sculptures are cold, lifeless stone. But this sculptor adds touches of living green moss to make his sculptures come alive: a fusion of art and gardening.

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Something Fishy: Ocean-Based Vertical Farm Concept

We've all seen vertical farm concepts, but this one takes the idea where it's never been: the ocean. Could the ocean be the future site of vertical farming?

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Flat Pack Products: 30 Efficient and Eco-Friendly Packaging Designs

Gone are the days of bigger actually being better - flat packs are really where it's at for streamlined design that's easier on our households and our planet.

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Green Giants: 13 Huge Eco-Friendly Urban Design Projects

These 13 towering eco-friendly architecture projects fit as much function into urban space as possible, from vertical farms to suburban living to the city.

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Seed Bomb Vending Machines Sowing Covert Green Thumbs

Answering the call of your guerrilla gardening green thumb just got easier with convenient vending machines that dispense pre-made seed bombs.

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Architecture of a Recession: Abandoned Developments

The homebuilding business is always particularly hard-hit by an economic downturn. These developments were abandoned to return to nature when the money ran out.

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Art of Upcycling: 18 DIY Wood Pallet Reuse Project Ideas

With 18 diverse project ideas to choose from, transforming humble wooden shipping pallets into eye-catching garden, decor and household superstars is a cinch!

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Egg-Shaped Architecture & Art From Amazing To Bizarre

From amazing decorated eggs to strange structures, here is a bizarre collection of oval-like designs in architecture and art.

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10 Surprising Reclaimed & Recycled Building Materials

Old airplanes, shipping containers, silos and beer bottles are just a few of the surprising reclaimed and recycled materials that can be used in green building.

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14 Offbeat Green Cleaning & Personal Care Recipes

Some of those bizarre-sounding recipes for cleaning and personal care - like cleaning copper with ketchup - really do work.

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Clever Concealment: Wood Facade Makes Modern Log Cabin

Modern buildings in natural settings often look out of place. But this "log" cabin uses attractive camouflage to mask its true nature and help it blend in.

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