Save yourself from a lifetime of clutter with ‘Swedish death cleaning’
No, the term Swedish death cleaning is not about scouring your entire home from top to bottom to the point of physical collapse. What it really refers to is the act of slowly and steadily decluttering your home as the years go by, ideally beginning in your fifties (or at any point in life) and Read More...
Vanuatu now accepts bitcoin as payment for citizenship status
Ever wish you could be like those spies in the movies with multiple passports? Or, perhaps your escape to Canada hasn’t worked out quite the way you planned? A tiny island nation in the South Pacific has you covered, for a Read More...
Old prison complex to be transformed into a buzzing eco-forward neighborhood
OMA is in the business of turning trash into treasure by redeveloping an old prison complex and turning it into an eco-city neighborhood. OMA will be redeveloping the Bijlmerbajes prison in Amsterdam into a neighborhood called the Bajes Kwartier in Read More...
GM advances stealthily into disaster relief zones with autonomous fuel cell concept
With hurricanes and disaster relief top of mind for the US government, General Motors is this week presenting military leaders with a platform design it hopes can one day help. The multi-vehicle Silent Utility Rover Universal Superstructure (SURUS) uses a fuel cell powertrain and autonomous Read More...
7 TED talks to help you give thanks
These TED Talks will help you conjure up massive amounts of gratitude. TED Talks are free thanks to Read More...
How to practice lagom, the Swedish secret to a balanced life
Fourteen years ago, Niki Brantmark was invited to spend her summer vacation with a friend on Sweden's West Coast. "It was the perfect setting for the beginnings of a love affair—not only with my Swedish husband but also with the Swedish way of Read More...
Italy’s high-rise forests take root around the world
Cities currently produce about three quarters of CO2 present in the atmosphere. To fight such pollution, more and more cities around the world are taking of note of the Bosco Verticales (Vertical Forests) in Milan, two apartment towers adorned with more than 20,000 trees and planets. Not only does Read More...
Electric vehicles made up nearly half of all new cars sales in Norway last month
California is often touted as the capital of electric cars, but a new report indicates that title belongs to Norway. In the month of September, the Scandinavian country reported 6,524 new registrations of plug-in electric cars, taking a record 48.4 percent of the market share. The big surprise Read More...
Epic world solar car race kicks off in Australia
Have you ever heard of The World Solar Challenge? Its an endurance race designed to inspire innovation in solar power by having teams from all over the world design and build vehicles that are powered only by the sun, before racing them from Darwin in northern Australia to Adelaide in the south, Read More...
These high-flying solar balloons are set to bring connection back to Puerto Rico
With around 83 percent of Puerto Rico currently without cell service, the US has granted Google’s parent company Alphabet an experimental license to bring connection back to the island using high-flying communications balloons. The idea is to use a fleet of solar-powered balloons fitted with Read More...