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2018: The year in healthy homes

Or why you shouldn't barbecue indoors.




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Lucirmás Turns Single Wine Bottles into 3-Piece Table Sets

Spanish company Lucirmás debuts Pure-Bottle, a fully recycled and recyclable table set which consists of a glass, lantern and spoon.




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Eco Wine Review: Lynmar Estate 2008 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir

A delicate balance of dark fruit, cocoa, pepper and mushroom from a sustainable vineyard that donates to AIDS and cancer patients.




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Wineries For Climate Protection – the Manifesto!

Here's the manifesto by the Spanish wine industry to fight climate change by making wineries more eco-friendly. Vines are very sensitive to climate change and so their environment, landscape, culture and tradition need protecting.




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Eco Wine Review: Hahn SLH Estate 2010 Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir

This wine is brimming with bright fruit, dark undertones and those farmyard aromas common to most Pinots. With notes of pepper, strawberry and dried mint on the palette, this wine is as food-friendly as it is drinkable.




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Eco Wine Review: Frei Brothers Reserve 2008 Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

This eco-wine is thick with berries and molasses on the nose but the follow through is not your usual California cab. And for every acre of planted vineyard, Frei Brothers sets aside one acre to be preserved as natural wildlife habitat.




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Eco Wine Review: Hahn SLH Estate 2010 Chef's Table Viognier

Hahn SLH Estate's 2010 Chef's Table Viognier is one of the most interesting whites you'll ever smell. It's completely intoxicating with notes of white peach, banana, honeydew and jasmine. Only 100 cases were made, so get this one quickly!




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Eco Wine Review: Frei Brothers Reserve 2009 Russian River Valley Chardonnay

Frei's 2009 Chardonnay touches your nose with hints of rose water, jasmine and other floral delights. But on the palette, it is swimming with honey and sweet butter and just enough acidity to make it all work.




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Artist Creates Stunning Portraits With Old Wine Corks

Scott Gundersen makes art with corks, using up to 9,000 of the old bottle-stoppers to create each beautiful portrait.




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Organic winemaker faces jail for refusing to apply pesticide

The French agriculture ministry has sentenced Emmanuel Giboulot six months in jail for not taking preventative measures against a bacterial vine disease.




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Wine tasters have fruit flies to thank for their jobs

Fruit flies play a role in all those fruity flavors we detect as we take whiff of wine fumes. Find out how.




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Artist's jewel-like recycled glass mosaics reveal nature's consciousness

Fusing her own blends of recycled glass to create jewels of light and color, this artist's gorgeous mosaics remind us of the spirit of nature.




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Why don't more people (especially environmentalists) drink bag-in-box wine?

Perhaps our perceptions are predicated on the packaging.




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Wine glasses are seven times as big as they used to be

Like our houses and our cars and our donuts, everything is bigger these days.




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7 cocktail recipes inspired by Victory Gardens for the Fourth of July

So for this 4th of July, I want to honor the Victory Garden! Well, that and booze. Here are some fun and tasty cocktails, fresh from the garden.




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Morocco: let us break the rod of repression with organisation and struggle

Those who follow the situation in Morocco can see that the repressive dictatorial regime has become more and more frenzied, and the police state has tightened its repressive grip on everyone and everything. They are arresting those who protest, who sing, who criticise, who write, and who show solidarity with those arrested.




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Morocco: the regime and the capitalists are the real enemies

A Moroccan proverb goes: “the sheep spends his whole life being afraid of the wolf, but in the end, who feasts on the sheep? The shepherd!” Well, some months after China and 10 days after Italy, Moroccan authorities announced the country’s first cases of COVID-19 on 2 March and attributed them to “external factors”. Specifically, a Moroccan returning from Italy, then French tourists. The epidemic has worsened, infecting 2,024 people, of whom 126 have died (as of 15 April, 45 days after the first infections) according to official data.




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Nigeria: the crisis spares no one – a Kano version of the pandemic

Kano has become the epicentre of the spread of Covid-19 in northern Nigeria. A large number of so-called “mysterious” deaths was recently reported, but the state government of Kano blatantly claims that the sharp rise in deaths is not due to Covid-19. Here we provide an eyewitness account from an IMT comrade in Kano.




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The 10 eco-friendliest states in the US

How green is your state? A new report details which states are sustainability superstars.




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Young people are the loneliest Americans

But they're not alone: a new report finds that most Americans are considered lonely.




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This tiny house community aims to help veterans rebuild their lives (Video)

Entirely funded by donations, this project is hoping to provide veterans struggling with PTSD or homelessness free housing, counseling and an experience of the healing power of nature.




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US Wildlife Services killed 1.3 million non-invasive animals in 2017

From foxes and falcons to otters and owls, the USDA program is doing away with wildlife in droves.




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There's not enough land for everyone in the world to follow U.S. dietary guidelines

We'd need another Canada-sized chunk of fertile land, scientists say, in order to meet those requirements.




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Recycled suitcase sculptures 'unpack' metaphysical baggage of the refugee experience (Video)

Using recycled materials and audio recordings from refugees, this exhibition hopes to deepen understanding and connection with those who have had to flee their home countries.




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Angular small house is inspired by Dutch and Japanese design

Clad with reclaimed cedar, this modern and quirky house fits on a small footprint.




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President's executive order might open national parks to logging

It is a brave new world of "reducing vegetation" and "fuel reduction" and a lotta logging.




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Lazivores unite: A manifesto for lazy gardening

It's time that the lazy gardeners among us rise up and take an explicit stand.




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Plant-based meat takes center stage at Kroger

Vegan burgers, sausage, deli slices, roasts, seitan, and even jackfruit are moving to the meat department at the nation's leading grocery retailer.




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Reused Tires Make a Squid-Like Playground for Refugee Children

When Go Play! announced a competition to design an innovative playground for 1,000 refugee children along the border of Thailand and Burma, Dutch designer AnneMarie van Splunter thought of old car tires. To




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Rare Footage of Wildlife in Thailand's Forests Shows That Anti-Poaching Efforts Work (Video)

Elephants, tigers, and other threatened species are thriving in Thailand's Western Forest Complex thanks to conservation efforts.




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Over 200 Animals Rescued From Wildlife Traffickers in Thailand

Among the hundreds of animals seized were 5 tigers, 13 white lions, three pumas, three kangaroos, four flamingos, two crowned cranes, 66 marmosets, two orangutans, and two red pandas.




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The Week in Pictures: A Cacti Chandelier, Bourbon and Maple Peach Cobbler, and More

A eccentric design hangs living cacti and lighting from the ceiling, a vegan cobbler is delicious, a luxury treehouse is a great escape in Bangkok, and more.




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Clip-on Apartment Purifies Waste Water, Generates Its Own Energy

I don't think it would actually work, but it is an innovative way of reskinning buildings




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Smuggler caught with more than 10 percent of an entire species

The arrest of a wildlife smuggler in Thailand proves just how easily a handful of criminals could bring about the demise of an endangered species.




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Temporary bamboo bridge replaces tourist attraction in Thailand

floating bridge is described as "a magnificent piece of engineering."




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Almost 1,000 smuggled turtles found in luggage at Thai airport

Some people want pet turtles, and they don't care where they're from or whether they are endangered species.




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Terrifying 'dementor' wasp species named for evil spirits from Harry Potter

A species of wasp discovered in Thailand has been named for evil spirits invented by J. K. Rowling in her Harry Potter books.




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Photo: Thailand hideaway sparks severe escape fantasy

Our photo of the day comes from beautiful Erawan National Park in Western Thailand.




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Innovative prefabricated bamboo trusses hold up this new sports hall

Marrying the traditional material of bamboo with modern engineering, this impressive sports hall in Thailand was constructed without steel reinforcements or connections.




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Wonderful Uber ad demonstrates why we have to get rid of cars

Whether they are are autonomous, self-driving or "shared" like Uber and Lyft, they are still congestion.




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Snakes invading Bangkok homes, thanks to urban sprawl

The fire department had received 31,801 calls this year for help in removing snakes, three times as many as in 2012.




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Co-living apartment designed as "social overlapping" experiment for students

This experimental co-living design scheme aims to foster communication, responsibility and human relationships.




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Why we should lose the words "pedestrian" and "cyclist"

They are people who bike or walk, not some separate species.




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Nature can teach your kid resilience

It creates scenarios in which hardship is experienced without being cruel or unfair to the child.




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We need walkable, wheelable, scooterable and strollable cities, and what we are getting is more sprawl

Fewer people are walking and more people are voting with their gas pedal.




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American roads are dangerous by design, and more people are dying than ever before

"The time for complacency has passed. We must treat this crisis as if our lives, and the lives of our friends, families, and neighbors, depend on it. "




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Is there a difference between hiking in built-up areas vs. wilderness?

Researchers in Austria put this question to the test.




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OLED lighting makes a beautiful chandelier

French lighting design company Blackbody makes the new lighting tech an object of desire.




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The world's 11 certified Dark Sky Reserves, where the stars run riot

Idaho is working hard to create an official dark sky reserve, which would make it the first in the US and the 12th in the world.




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Algae could light up our cities at night

Many cities have transitioned to LED street lighting, but researchers think algae may be the illumination of the future.