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2018年8月30日 · How Pinatex makes leather from pineapple fibre. Pinatex is a sustainable alternative leather made out of the waste parts of a pineapple plant. It’s one of those ideas that’s good for people and for the planet, improving incomes for farmers and producing a true circular economy material. Leather is complicated.
2014年10月13日 · The Aralkum desert. In his book Water: Life in every drop, Julian Caldecott describes the Aral Sea as “one of the most spectacular ecological disasters of the Twentieth Century”. That disaster is now in its final stages, as new satellite images revealed this month that the whole eastern lake is now gone.
2016年10月10日 · Five questions for effective altruism. The effective altruism movement is dedicated to getting more out of its philanthropy. Those who are really into it aren’t just out for more effective giving, but the scientifically demonstrable best option: what is the most good you can possibly do?
2016年8月17日 · Caveats aside, Prisoners of Geography is a useful overview of geopolitics. It’s very readable and Marshall has decades of reporting behind him. If you haven’t read anything like this before, it will be genuinely enlightening. You can read it through if you’re interested, dip in and out if you prefer, or use it as a reference when regional ...
2020年1月31日 · For an answer, consider Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Singapore, a case study in Lucy Jones’ book and one that I earmarked straight away as a building of the week entry. Right from the start, the architect was briefed to create a building that lowered visitor’s blood pressure and created a healing environment.
2019年11月25日 · The book ends with Donald Trump, a one-man brand and an attention merchant par excellence. He purposefully dominates political discussion in a way that makes “almost all political thought either a reflection, rejection, or at least a reaction to his ideas.”. For Wu, a reality TV presidency perfectly sums up the challenge the book addresses ...
2017年3月17日 · Houses that meet the right criteria can now be labelled with the stamp on the left, and this is the first house to be certified. Called Active House Centennial Park, you’ll find it in suburban Toronto, Canada. It was built by developer Great Gulf as a demonstration project. It’s highly efficient, and designed to maximise the use of natural ...
