Vertical Farms Edinburgh-based company Shockingly Fresh has opened a vertical farm in Offenham, Worcestershire, and has plans to open many more such vertical farms across the UK. Working with ...

Palm oil is technically vegan. The product itself is plant-based and doesn't contain any animal products. In fact, it's even common in certified vegan foods like some vegetable oil spreads (aka ...

Cactus leather can be used for handbags, shoes, furniture, and more. We look at its environmental impact and how it compares to cotton and leather.

The cork is boiled, marked, and cut. Afterward, cork planks are separated by quality. The cork will also go through a drying phase and be further washed and then treated for the industry in which ...

Adaptavate Former plasterer and contractor Tom Robinson developed Breathaboard as his thesis while doing an MSC degree. Adaptavate has been selling lime plaster as it gears up to build a pilot ...

He continued: "Scientific life-cycle energy analyses have repeatedly found that the energy used in the operation and maintenance of buildings dwarf the so-called 'embodied' energy of the materials ...

It is a really happy coincidence because chemical recycling is in the news as the industry's response to the failure of recycling. As both the ACC and the NRDC agree, only about 9% of plastic ...

But one couple has gone even further in their home office aspirations—their home office rolls away from the house on train tracks. In an interesting twist, Seattle-based architecture firm Olson ...

Honey Bee Loss Has Multiple Causes “Honey bees are vital pollinators for more than 100 species of crops in the United States, and the widespread loss of honey bee colonies is increasingly ...

Pollinators aren’t the only bugs that can help your garden. Learn what beneficial insects can do for your garden and how to coexist with them.

But in October 2022, hempcrete was added as an appendix to the U.S. residential building code, utilized by 49 out of 50 states, and will be in the 2024 International Residential Code (IRC ...

A modular is a portable home or commercial building that is built at an off-site facility and transported to a more permanent plot for assembly. The product can be of higher quality because it's ...