All Images: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have released a follow up document to their 2005 publication, Setting Up and Running a School Garden. The newer manual is a School... 

Whether you’re a first-year or only two semesters away from that hard-earned degree in your hands, packing for college is never easy. But don’t despair: Our back-to-school slideshow is here to make all those buying decisions easier —... 

Foodprint was founded in New York last summer by Sarah Rich (of Worldchanging fame) and Nicola Twilley (of Edible Geography ) as a series of international conversations about food and the city….a truly cross-disciplinary discussion that explores... 

photo: J. Novak Whether we like it or not the food that we eat doesn’t just effect our waistlines, it effects the way that we feel. If you’re mindful of the way you feel after munching on a Hershey bar and a coke then you’re less likely... 

Behind the scenes with Samantha Pleet as she designs for the Do-Gooder Design Challenge. And by Catwalk we do literally mean “catwalk”. Yesterday’s News , makers of eco-friendly cat litter, made from recycled newspaper–hence the... 

A scientist at the Florida Institute of Technology has come up with a new compound that disinfects and cleans polluted water without producing toxic byproducts.  It’s based on ferrate , which is a  revved-up form of iron.  Through the... 

The variety of vehicles in competition for the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize is amazing. There are 21 teams still in competition, spread across three categories. But rather than converging on one particular general design style,... 

LOT -EK were among the pioneers of shipping container architecture, and they are still pushing the envelope. For the APAP Open School in South Korea they slice and dice 8 40′ shipping containers into an exhibition space, meeting rooms and studios.... 

Image from stylelist Here comes the bride…. This blushing bride wore a dress made out of 13 feet of bubble wrap as she walked down the aisle. Her train was another three feet. She looks so great! It was first seen on the catwalk–sort of–at... 

Over the next couple of years the Toronto Transit Commission is replacing a lot of its subway cars. Ryerson School of Interior Design student Heather Borozny notes that people are converting shipping containers into housing, so why not subway cars? After...