From a skyscraper that cleans pollution to a re-invented college dorm to a pre-fab house that comes in a shipping container, these are some of the most mindblowing structures of the last year.
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Samuel Nutter, sous chef at Copenhagen’s Noma, explains how the best restaurant in the world three years running keeps its employees--and more than a few local grasshoppers--on their toes.
Where in the world does a solar company have the best chance of success? It's not the economic powerhouse you might think, though the U.S. and China aren't far behind.
Wind power is great, when there is wind. New forecasting services aim to take some of the guesswork out of when and where renewable energy will come from, predicting wind speeds far enough in advance to save energy companies billions.
Are you aware of the serious lack of notable music that comes from Denmark? When I read the announcement of the proposal selected for the new Danish Rock Museum, I had to Google what Danish music was out there. And it wasn’t pretty. Luckily the enormous 120,000-square-foot (think two and a half football fields) endeavor isn’t solely meant to display the Danish Way to Rock.
Using different factors to assess how well a country can respond to changes in food and water availability (as well as rising seas), the Global Adaptation Index shows which countries have the most work to do to prepare.
In his ethnography Wisdom Sits in Places, the anthropologist Keith Basso reveals the Western Apaches’ poetic sense of place. Landscape symbolizes a community’s history and is intrinsically linked with the memory of ancestors and their way of life. As children come of age, they demonstrate their maturity by recognizing and honoring the stories of each place. The land, learning, and culture are one.
