Backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the new leadership of Auroville, an experimental commune, wants to create a model city. In the way stand trees, tree houses and a take-it-slow tradition.
Tag: Sustainable Living
Build a New City or New Humans? A Utopia in India Fights Over Future.
Backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the new leadership of Auroville, an experimental commune, wants to create a model city. In the way stand trees, tree houses and a take-it-slow tradition.
This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes
Scientists have created a bacterial ink that reproduces itself and can be 3D-printed into living architecture.
A World-Class World Expo
The event in Dubai dazzles with extraordinary architectural achievements and a focus on the future of the planet.
At the World Expo Pavilions, Future Visions Combine Past and Present
Conversations with three figures integral to the conception of the expo.
How Investors Are Betting on Foie Gras Grown From Cells in a Lab
Gourmey, a start-up based in Paris, received an additional $10 million in seed funding this week. The company hopes to find a market in the United States amid growing concerns about animal cruelty.
A Front-Row Seat on the Spectacle of Ice
Above the Arctic Circle, in Greenland, a new building dramatizes the impact of climate change.
16 Global Design Concepts for an Unpredictable Future
The challenges of the past year gave designers every reason to recede into the shadows, but creativity won’t be denied.
Milk for Floors, Bread for Walls: 19th-Century Cleaning Tips for the Modern Era
Just in time for spring cleaning, a conservation group in England has delved into the past for how to clean in the present.
What if Local and Diverse Is Better Than Networked and Global?
Helena Norberg-Hodge has been arguing for localism since the 1970s, but the pandemic is making the Australian activist-scholar’s ideas more relevant than ever.