Brazil’s Inhotim Is A Sustainable Art Park

Source: treehugger.com Published: April 26, 2013 Bonnie Alter Inhotim is part sustainable botanical garden, part artistic wonder. Located in Brazil, its 240 sprawling acres sit on what was once a mining site. Today it’s a carefully tended landscape that includes lush...

Garbage Homes – Bolivia

Source: aljazeera.com Published: February 5, 2013 We follow one woman who is on a mission to build homes for the poor from the only resource she can find in abundance. Ingrid Vaca Diez is on a mission to build better homes for the poor. With few funds and little...

Fiji Boat Made from Plastic Bottles

Source: ippinka.com Published: November 4, 2012 by Jerry Chang 600 littered plastic bottles were used by Tom Davies, a New Zealand native living in Fiji, to create this boat. It measures 4.5 metres long and 1.4 metres wide. All the 600ml bottles used are glued...

Dresses Made from Thousands of Recycled Rubber Bands

Source: treehugger.com Published: January 11, 2013 © Margarita Mileva Kimberley Mok kimberleymok There’s no shortage of architects moonlighting as fashion designers nowadays. Bulgarian, New York-based Margarita Mileva is one of them, but instead of churning out...

Shanghai Organic Farm Made From 78 Recycled Shipping Containers

Source: earthtechling.com Published: January 9, 2013 By Randy Woods Another day, another shipping container reuse, right? That’s how it seems sometimes with a lot of architecture firms that want to play with these modular boxes like they were pieces of Lego. While...

High Line-Style Project for Sydney Aims to Deliver the Goods

Source: earthtechling.com Published: November 22, 2012 By Susan DeFreitas Old railroads are all the rage when it comes to adaptive reuse. New York City kicked off the trend with its High Line park, which officially opened to the public last year. Now we’ve got...

N.J. Man Powers House with Hybrid Car

Source: nbcnewyork.com Published: November 8, 2012 By Pat Battle and Katie Honan “The neighbors kept saying, ‘Does Bob have a generator?’ No, it’s the Prius. It’s a spaceship,” he said Some tri-state residents who lost power during...