by Chérmelle D. Edwards Design boutique Slow Factory merges silk and satellite images into sustainably designed, limited edition scarves that are entirely eye-catching. Three years ago, founder Celine Semaan Vernon began gathering images from NASA through a Creative Commons license, which would allow her to use the public data on her scarves. Given that Vernon—who hails from Beirut, Lebanon—wasn’t a fashion designer and didn’t have …
Launching today in celebration of Earth Day, the new film “Planetary” is an awe-inspiring exploration into the interconnectedness between planet Earth and humankind. The documentary features clips from past NASA Apollo missions as well as interviews from some of the astronauts themselves and is described as a “cross continental, cinematic journey, that explores our cosmic origins and our future as a species” that “asks us …
Though it may not seem like it, the Earth’s soil is a precious and magical material that we all depend on to sustain human life, yet we still treat it like, well, dirt. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, the world has just 60 more years of growing crops if we continue to carelessly strip our soils of essential nutrients and destroy invaluable …
