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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.

On a Wing and a Prayer: The Recycled Airplane House

What do you do with a decommissioned Boeing 747? One architect is remaking one of the planes into a unique, massive eco-home in the remote hills of Malibu.

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Drinking Under The Microscope: 10 Beautiful BevShots

Beer, wine and cocktails may demonstrate the brewmaster's and bartender's art; now their essential character can be displayed in bold, crystalline colors.

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DIY Lightbulb Recycling is Cooler Than You Think

When a lightbulb burns out, we rarely give it a second thought. Light up your house and defy expectations with these DIY uses for otherwise useless lightbulbs:

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No Green Thumb? 13 Healthy Hard-to-Kill Houseplants

Indoor gardening can be easy even if you tend to kill every plant you touch - really! Just choose from these 13 tough houseplants, which can withstand neglect.

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12 Savvy Small-Space Urban Gardening Designs & Ideas

You don't have to have a huge suburban yard to grow all kinds of wonderful veggies, fruits and herbs. These small-space designs make the most of any space.

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Housing On The Wing: 10 Bitingly Bizarre Bat Houses

These 10 bizarre bat houses may look somewhat creepy to us but to our furry flying friends, they're home sweet home.

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Bizarre Biodegradables: 12 Gowns, Cars, Caskets & More

As waste piles up around the world, there’s a real need for products that won’t just sit in landfills indefinitely and leach toxic chemicals once they’re no longer wanted.

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Amazing Living Art: 18 Giant Rice Murals [PICS]

Cooler than crop circles, the agricultural artistry is incredibly inventive which gives rise to marketing creativity. Here are 18 amazing and artistic rice murals.

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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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