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Wretched Excess Dept: Castor Design's Marble with Fluorescent Tube

"At first glance, Marble with Fluorescent Tube's monolithic 2,500 pound base appears to be at odds with the banality of the bulb which sits on top of it."




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Just what we needed Dept: The Pet Treat Maker

Like your dog is going to reject your home-made dog cookie if it doesn't look like a bone.




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Wretched Excess or the future of housing design? Another look at the car elevator

There is a perverse logic to this idea of bringing your car to your apartment.




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Heated glass: Could this be the least sustainable building product ever invented?

You want giant windows but don't like drafts? Plug in your windows and turn them into toasters.




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Your own healthy green loft, only $45 Million

Delos has developed a whole new standard for healthy, happy living, starting at $ 15.5 million.




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The Starck difference between two "green" prefabs

The differences between the new prefabs by Philippe Starck for RIKO and the Bright Built Homes are instructive.




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Dubious Dubai: World's largest air conditioned city to be built, covering 48 million square feet

It's got everything, from hotels to hospitals to theaters to the world's largest mall, and a severe case of cognitive dissonance.




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The KiraVan RV looks like it could go to the moon.

RVs are sometimes great models of how one can get a lot of living into small spaces. The Kiravan takes it to a whole new level.




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Weird Japanese house of the week is totally transparent

Yuusuke Karasawa designs a house in Tokyo with 5 levels, a dozen stairs and almost no walls inside or out.




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This doesn't look like a Passive House to me

Serenity may not be a spaceship but it is still out of this world.




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Wretched Excess or Clever Design? Apartment tower with car elevators is definitely the former.

Two years ago we couldn't decide, but when you see it in action the answer is obvious.




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Rotate this: Spiral spinning tower will turn real estate developers' cranks

The sharing economy comes to architecture as the rich and the very rich share views and height.




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You can't be too skinny or too rich In New York City

A new record for skinny towers: only 47 feet wide.




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Wretched excess comes to the summer kitchen

Cooking outdoors in the summer is the green thing to do, but this is ridiculous.




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Utensilmate is a great candidate for the Wrongest Product Award

I can't decide if this is just what I always needed or the worst product ever put on Kickstarter.




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In London they are building swimming pools in the sky

Because they can, and there are people who will pay for it.




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The Tiny House goes to the tailgate party

Wretched excess meets the tiny house. Rent it for only $ 5,000 a game, including concierge!




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Wretched Excess: Private yachts are so yesterday, now it's private floating islands.

But, we ask, are they green and sustainable?




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Just what we needed dept: a $10,000 home pizza oven

It can cook a pizza in two minutes? But I want it now.




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Another look at the question: Bidet or toilet paper, or yes, adult wipes?

Apparently adult wipes are a huge growth industry. Another good reason to switch to a bidet equipped toilet.




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The Coffeeboxx: Wretched excess or clever design?

We hate pods, but love durability. Is there a place for this?




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Just what we needed dept: The pre-peeled, plastic-packed orange

I'm thrilled; I have so much trouble with rolling fruit.




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Why the Filthy Rich Aren't Green: 7 Habits of Highly Inefficient People

Photo Courtesy of Millionaire-Maker PackageOh how we love to hate the filthy rich--even more so in these tough economic times. While the rest of us mere mortals are struggling to make ends meet, the hyper-rich live by the motto "if you've got it,




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How to Go Green: Wedding Engagement

Photo credit: Michael Blann/Getty We've already talked a lot about how to green your dating life and how to green your wedding, but what about that time in between--your engagement? The average couple these days spends 15 months being engaged, which




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Cadbury's Dairy Milk Goes Fairtrade, Next Billion Go To TED, Huff Post on Coal, and More

Cadbury Dairy Milk Fairtrade: Is the future of Fairtrade with big switches by big companies or increasing access to the pioneer brands? "Cadburys says in the FT today that it's not trying to undermine the pioneering 100% Fairtrade companies such as




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Jewelry and Gems Shine Eco-Brighter with Brilliant Earth

Is your soon-to-be fiancé eco-chic? As you're getting ready to pop the question and thinking forward to your green




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TranquiliT Adds Something Green to Your Wedding With Eco-Friendly Bridal Gowns

TranquiliT may be better known for its downward-dog-friendly garb, but the erstwhile yoga-wear label is now rocking the frock, matrimonial style. Outfit the femmes of your bridal party—bride, bridesmaids, and flower girls—in 95 percent organic bamboo




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It's Gonna Take a Lotta Love to Reforest Indonesia

Love is often said to blossom, but a new government initiative in the Indonesian district of Garut aims to make that metaphor literal by requiring newly married couples to plant 10 tree saplings.Two years ago, Indonesia




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Planet Green's Ultimate Green Wedding Guide

Whether you're the romantic, three-tiered cake type—or the "let's hitched at a civil court and call it a day" sort of guy or gal there's something for everyone in Planet Green's fresh off-the-blog Ultimate Green




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Green Your Wedding! Low Cost, Zero-Waste, Eco-Conscious Options

The average wedding in the USA costs $20,000. Yikes! In this economy, that's not just insane; it's silly.




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Holy Crap! Toilet-Paper Wedding Dress Displays Unparalleled Dedication

Major, major kudos to Ann Kagawa Lee of Honolulu, Hawaii, winner of Cheap Chic Wedding's annual toilet-paper wedding dress contest, who made this mind-boggling matrimonial ensemble out of bathroom tissue—a textile fit




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5 Ridiculously Over-the-Top, Extravagant Celebrity Weddings

Photo via Madeline's Weddings and Events/ CakellaAll you really need to get married is love--and maybe a ring, and a marriage license. But that doesn't stop celebrities from going overboard when they're ready to tie the knot, hosting parties decorated




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Win an Eco-Friendly, Solar-Powered Wedding

Want an eco-friendly wedding?? Afraid of the sticker shock for all of those organic, free-range doves merrily flying away after your vows? Not sure you can beat the millions of other people vying for a Today Show




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Beautiful Bike Wedding in Sao Paulo

It might not be a first, but you have to give this couple credit for marrying on a bike in a city where traffic is so heavy that even pedestrians beat cars.




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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something...Green? Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte Delivers Eco-Friendly Weddings

As more eco-conscious couples take their walk down the aisle, a growing green wedding industry has responded in kind. Enter "Something Green," a new service introduced by The Ritz-Carlton, Charlotte. "We are constantly looking for




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Rare Swan 'Divorce' Puzzles Researchers

Once thought of as pillars of monogamy in the animal kingdom, it appears the flame of love can burn out for swans as well. For the first time in 40 years, after following some 4 thousand swans at a reserve in the UK, researchers discovered one formerly




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Couple to Wed Thanks to 400,000 Recycled Cans

After Pete Geyer and Andrea Parrish became engaged, they decided to say "I can" before saying "I do," and in more ways than one. The couple worked to make their wedding not just a celebration of the love they have for each other, but




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McDonald's To Offer Fast-Food "McWeddings" in Hong Kong

If soaring wedding costs have you wondering how you can afford it all (and yet, you couldn't be bothered with the effort to put on a more eco-conscious wedding) then McDonald's may have the answer for you.




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10 Wacky (and Mostly Wasteful) Royal Wedding Souvenirs

In the market for a royal PEZ dispenser? The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton -- set for this Friday, April 29 -- has inspired dozens of trinkets, tchotckeys, and souvenirs of varying usefulness, quality, and taste, from cheesy mugs and ugly




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10 Wacky (and Mostly Wasteful) Royal Wedding Souvenirs (Slideshow)

In the market for a royal PEZ dispenser?




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Will and Kate's Royal Wedding: The Green Lowdown in 8 Juicy Details

It's been 30 years since Charles and Diana's wedding, which means royal watchers all over the world have been working themselves into a tizzy over every last, secret detail of the Friday, April 29th nuptials




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A gift registry for people who don't want stuff

More love, less waste. That's the idea behind a new gift registry. And it's an idea that might just take off.




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How to make your wedding day green

A wedding is one of the most important days in a couple's life. If you care about the planet, why not integrate your principles into your big day?




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6 ways to keep it simple on your wedding day

If you keep it simple, then the wedding will be more fun and relaxed for everyone involved, not to mention kinder to the environment.




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Tiny house lovers can tie the knot in the Tiny Chapel

For the couple that wants to avoid a big wedding and all the trappings of large event venues, Tiny Chapel Weddings offers a decidedly smaller way to get married.




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British couple has a zero waste wedding feast

Charlotte and Nick Baker managed to feed 135 guests on rejected food that was delivered one day before the wedding.




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7 questions to ask yourself when planning a wedding

Challenge the notion that you have to blow the bank account just to throw a good party. There are smarter ways of doing it.




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The barn wedding extravaganza

Ironically, the setting is supposed to evoke rustic simplicity.




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Does wedding rice really hurt birds?

At some point we were told not to toss rice at the newly betrothed because of the birds – here's the real reason why we shouldn't.




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4 ways to have a more eco-friendly wedding

A few strategic decisions can greatly reduce the environmental impact of your Big Day.