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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.

Novel Ideas: Books as Furniture & Functional Décor

Books that are out-of-date and just plain unwanted are given value as decorative and functional objects in the home including lamps, sofas, desks and planters.

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Great Crates: 3 Cool Cases of Shipping Container Reuse

A zero-waste pop-up restaurant, a chic and colorful guest house and a cool new concept for Boy Scout camp cabins are 3 new examples of shipping container reuse.

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Booze it Up! 13 Ways to Reuse Glass Beer & Wine Bottles

Transform your empty beer, wine and liquor bottles into lamps, bird feeders, shelving units, wind chimes - even a solar water heater or a house.

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After Effects: Tiny Buildings Reclaimed by Nature's Touch

After humankind abandons the buildings and cities we have constructed, nature will take over rapidly. This art series imagines just what that will look like.

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Spiraling STAIRscraper Solves Suburban Sprawl

Wouldn't it be nice to have a large green space of your own, even when living in an urban skyscraper? This spiral design delivers just that.

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Rustic Modern Retreats: 12 Earthy Hotels, Homes & Barns

These relaxing retreats pair modern materials and aesthetics with a touch of nature in the form of reclaimed timber and patina for an elegant, rustic look.

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14 Smart Silo Conversions from High-Rises to Hidden Homes

Sewage bins in Amsterdam, wheat bins in Australia and coal bins in New York have been transformed into stunning high-rise apartments, homes and more.

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6 Unusual Plants And Monstrous Blooms

Need a boost to your passion for nature? Here are some unusual and rare plants that will definitely pique your interest.

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Suburb in the City: Unique Skyscraper Provides Urban Green

Apartment dwellers usually have to live without their very own green spaces.This building would provide personal outdoor yards for every resident.

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Green City Rehab: 12 Eco Urban Makeover Concepts

How do we transform the car-clogged, fossil-fuel-chugging cities of the world into sustainable urban centers? These 12 novel ideas might help.

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Leaf Beyond Belief: 11 Tree-mendous Examples Of Topiary Art

These 11 tree-mendous topiaries may look “bush league” but you'd better be-leaf creating them takes mad botanical skills rooted in a love for landscape art.

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Guerilla Green Graffiti: Mossy Urban Art Brings Nature Home

The closest most graffiti taggers get to being green is using spray paint without CFC's, but some green graffiti artists are taking their art to a new level.

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Berry Nice! 12 Amazing, Odd & Unusual Fruits

Fruits are available in many more varieties than ever before, some of them decidedly odd. Are you up for strange fruit? Here are a dozen, ripe for the picking.

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It's Alive! 13 Examples of Green Growing Furniture

From mushrooms growing on benches to moss bath mats and even live crystals on chairs, these 13 furniture designs are unusually vivacious.

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Recycling Renegade: Guns Melted for Tree-Planting Shovels

Guns are the ultimate symbol of street violence, but this artist is turning them into something beautiful: shovels that will be used to plant trees worldwide.

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