Art & DesignMan-Made Jungle: Exotic Architecture for Rain Forests & More
Beautiful and untamed, the jungle can be an inhospitable setting for human inhabitance when dwellings are not…
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Art & DesignGeography & TravelCheap Green Travel: 14 Eco + Budget-Friendly Hostels
Somewhere between luxurious (and pricey) eco-resorts and the most basic of dirt-cheap beds-for-rent are…
Nature & EcosystemsLuxurious Eco Travel: 12 Elegant Green Destinations
Staycations and ultra-rustic nature-centric accommodations may be the greenest way to spend your vacation time,…
Nature & EcosystemsStaten Island Dump Rehabbed into Gigantic Green Space
For decades, Staten Island – a borough of New York City – has been associated with stink. That’s because…
travelTop 10 Cities for Finding Cheap & Tasty Street Food
Even when you’re hitchhiking and crashing in hostels, traveling can make a big dent in your bank account, so…
Art & DesignEco Resorts: 13 Rustic Retreats for True Nature Lovers
When you travel to exotic destinations, do you like to stay in fancy, well-appointed hotel rooms or immerse…
Art & DesignRustic Modern Retreats: 12 Earthy Hotels, Homes & Barns
Modern design needn’t be relegated to urban areas, and likewise, rustic touches can bring the charm of nature…
Art & DesignSuspended Swedish Tree Hotel Reflects Natural Environment
Ascend through the straight, tall trees in a northern Swedish woodland on a suspended rope bridge to a trompe…
Geography & TravelMapping the Underworld: Digital 3D Cave Exploration
Just under the surface of Nottingham, England, there’s hidden world ripe for exploration, from a 14th century…
Geography & TravelGiant German Airship Hangar Transformed into Tropical Resort
Berliners depressed by the city’s notoriously cold and gray winters need to travel mere minutes in order to…
Art & DesignSleeping in Trash, Trains & Drains: 14 Recycled Hotels
When you’re in search of a romantic honeymoon spot or comfortable lodging after a long day of travel, sewage…
Art & DesignExplosive Architecture: 10 Volcano-Inspired Structures
They’re beautiful and sinister, jutting up out of the landscape with a deceptive peace when inactive, but hiding…
Art & DesignThe Earth as Art: 18 Stunning Satellite Images
Here an abstract composition of acid green and vivid violet; there, a sweeping brushstroke in a thick sea of…
Art & DesignApt Adaptation: 10 Cool Converted Bookstores
Secondhand is one of the greenest ways to shop for books, so why shouldn’t bookstores themselves be secondhand,…
Art & DesignBilbao Building Features Faceted Glass Facade
Faceted like an irregular crystal, this building in Bilbao, Spain wasn’t simply born of some stroke of artistic…
Art & DesignArchitecture of Antarctica: 12 Strange Sub-Zero Structures
At the ends of the earth, where man-made architecture of any kind is exceedingly rare, it can be jarring to see…
Geography & Travel12 Historic Sites & Ancient Ruins in Danger of Disappearing
Vandalism, climate change, encroaching development and rampant commercialism – these are just a few of the…
Art & DesignECO-CLIFF: Vertical Zoo Competition Proposal
In Buenos Aires, from a tiny man-made island that once held a landfill, may rise an unprecedented ‘vertical…
Art & DesignMan-Made Mountains: 12 Terrain-Inspired Buildings
It juts out of the landscape and into the clouds, covered in grass, butterflies flitting about – but it’s no…
Art & DesignHobbit Houses: 15 Grassy Hill-Shaped Dwellings
“In a hole in a ground lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy…
