Interview: Saltverk Founder Björn Steinar Jónsson
On the origins of Iceland's gourmet, hand-harvested sustainable sea salt
Tag: Environmental Awareness
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France’s Environmentally Friendly Insect Farm
In Amiens (a town just north of Paris), a company called Ÿnsect is building a vertical farm that will be home to hundreds of millions of insects. Set to begin production in …
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
Architecture from Manhattan to Svalbard, protest art, artificial intelligence, cannabis laws and more from around the web
Robert Zhao Renhui’s “A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of the World”
Surprising and oftentimes heartbreaking, a catalog of species permanently altered by human existence
Trash Tee
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EVERYBODY.WORLD’s Trash Tee is made from first-of-its-kind 100% recycled cotton. That means discarded and wasted fibers from yarn factories in the US are collected and reworked into new yarn. Then it’s knitted, …
Interview: Nature-Activism Photographer Daniel Beltrá and the New MacBook Pro
From insight on editing in the field to the color palatte of our environment
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This “Inadvertently Engineered” Enzyme Could Help the Environment
“Inadvertently engineered” by scientists at the University of Portsmouth and the US Department of Energy, a new enzyme has been discovered (well, created in actuality) that might help the recycling process—therefore benefitting …
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Sustainable LEGO Blocks from Plant-Based Plastic
New LEGO blocks made from polyethylene (which is based on and sourced from sugarcane) are to be released this year, beginning a new sustainable direction for the iconic company. While the material …
Via nationalgeographic.com
21 Sustainable Vacation Destinations
Environmentally friendly and contributing to local communities, sustainable and conscious hotels, lodges and resorts are (thankfully) only getting more common. From Botswana to Belize, the Seychelles and Sri Lanka, National Geographic has …
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The Problem With Single-Serve Coffee Pods
Recognizing the damaging effects single-serve coffee pods have on the environment, the German city of Hamburg has banned them from state-run buildings. The city’s decision has sparked a wider concern regarding whether …