Dogen City, Japan’s futuristic floating city seeking self-sustainability.
The floating city of Dogen City is a Japanese start-up’s response to climate change and the rising sea levels threatening many cities. And it may, if it is ever completed, be the world’s healthiest city.
Transport and climate change: impact and solutions for clean mobility
Climate change is related to the way in which human activities have changed vegetation and climate patterns on Earth. Mobility and transport have been largely responsible for these changes. To what extent? What are the alternatives?
Tackling desertification: ways to reduce desertification and best reversal methods
The desertification phenomenon —which has now reached between 30 and 35 times the historical rate due to human activities— prospers in certain settings, therefore, one of the ways of reducing desertification is by avoiding them. But, what is the cause and how can it be reversed?
Exploring the concept of cob houses: longevity, legality, electricity, and thermal insulation
Although they may look like little houses that belong in ‘The Lord of the Rings’, cob houses recover ancient construction materials to fly the flag for an architectural movement based on bioconstruction and sustainability.
Understanding waste streams: examples, business applications and stages
A waste stream is the flow of waste from its source until its final disposal. Effectively managing each type waste and implementing circular parameters is essential unless we want a planet covered in landfills.
China’s Now Spurning ‘Ugliest Buildings’ That Symbolized Its Meteoric Rise
An infatuation with infrastructure has spawned extravagant, bizarre showpieces, but the people and the government want to change the way China builds.
Why Thinking of Cities as Nature Is Key to Fighting Climate Change
Cities should be seen as living, dynamic systems that evolve with people alongside nature if we are to better design solutions to tackle the climate crisis, says one expert.
Your next home could be 3D-printed. Here’s how
Construction is slow, costly, and unsustainable. Could robots do it better?
Colombia’s Women-Led Electric Bus Fleet Is Reshaping Bogotá’s Public Transit
The project is a bet that public investment can help change perceptions of mass transportation.
Germany Sets the New Standard for Cheap, National Mass Transit
Germany will start one of the most affordable public transit offers anywhere in the world on Monday, setting a new benchmark to encourage consumers to ditch their cars and putting pressure on Berlin to make the shift work.