Tag: trees
An Inspiring Mirrored Treehouse Design You’ll Want To Experience
Just like a LEGO, papercraft or any other kind of build, a treehouse build can be as big or as small as you can imagine. It can be fancy or simple, and it can take a weekend or a lifetime to complete. I while back I wrote about the World's Largest Treehouse, and at that time, the guy building it had ...
Work Alongside Nature: An Inspiring Office Building In The Woods
If you are like me, you spend the majority of your day and night in front of your computer. It's very common for me to sit down at my computer when it's dark outside, and not stop working until it's dark outside again. Then I take a quick bike ride or walk, and before I know it, I'm sitting in my be ...
The World’s First Vertical Forest: An Architectural Beauty
I'd like to introduce you to the world's first Bosco Verticale (Italian for Vertical Forest), which is being built right now in Milan. According to Christopher Woodward, a writer for the Financial Times, it's "the most exciting new tower in the world."
This vertical forest will span across two to ...
Stylish Shoes Molded From Recycled Cardboard
When I was doing research for this article, I learned a lot about cardboard with regards to recycling. There are two types of cardboard. The first is what's called corrugated cardboard, and it's the type of cardboard we normally see things packed in for shipping. It has that lightweight ruffled laye ...
Poor Little Trees: Cut Down Forest Trees With Sad Faces
Trees are living things, and each time one gets cut down, it's a little sad. Some trees grow for decades to become the huge natural masterpieces we sometimes see when we take a walk in the woods. I think that is one reason why I love hiking and camping so much, seeing that natural beauty never gets ...
Living Typography: Simple Birdhouses Designed For Sparrows
I've gone through a lot of changes in my in the past few years, and if you've also felt yourself grow and stretch, you've probably noticed a longing to be closer to nature. It's an interesting thing when that happens, but one clue that we are developing as a person and changing is that we have a cra ...
The World’s Largest Treehouse: A Mansion In A Tree
I love treehouses. It's one of those things I always wanted when I was a little girl but never got, that and an Easy Bake Oven. The thing that is strange to me about this treehouse is that I always thought the world's largest treehouse would probably be in some exotic jungle, like the kind you only ...
Inspiring Offices: Bubble Desk Landscape Interior Design
Offices around the world are starting to realize that having an inspiring environment will make people work harder and be happier while doing it. Some companies are still in the old frame of mind and don't really care about the work environments that their employees have to endure during their stay ...
The Green House Effect: Totally Different From What You Think!
I think that everyone has heard about the Green House Effect by now, and it's affecting us all in one way or another. Some people and scientists blame our escalating bad weather and catastrophes on it. It's safe to say though that something is up and about to be terribly wrong if nothing is done. I ...
Seed Bombs – Guerrilla Gardening Makes Cities Beautiful!
Have you ever heard of a seed bomb before? I hadn't until today. A seed bomb is a little round handmade ball made from clay, compost and seeds which are in a vending machine. You pay two quarters, get one out, and then throw it wherever you want. It will start growing a beautiful little green pa ...
Creative New York City Rooftop Designs
It makes sense that in big cities where there isn't enough space to relax and enjoy the outdoors on the ground, the next place to go is up. You can always go higher, right?
Here in Atlanta, evidence that there is a space shortage can be seen in the parking situation. Space is so valuable that y ...
Wanna Be Cool? – Drink Your Water Out of a Box
We all know the downfalls of drinking bottled water, right? I'm not going to go into any of those, but if you would like to learn more about that, you can read this article published last month on the Mother Nature Network website: 5 reasons not to drink bottled water
It's been a little over a ye ...
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