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When last month over a billion dollars were donated for the restoration work on the Notre Dame, many people asked the question why aren’t such big amounts of money used for things like homelessness or the environment. It’s is a rare thing to see such big sums being used for nature, yet something it does…
“I have a suspicion that this is actually the blueprint, and there is something, when people get to it, everybody would want to live this way, but it might be a really long journey for some folks to get to that knowing.” – Tom Nicholson This is a tale of two people, Tom and Sarah. Tom is…
In today’s world the mainstream idea of producing food is getting further and further away from the way it is done in nature. Maybe we should start becoming more self-reliant and start growing our own food. Even if we go and buy fully organic from the supermarket, we pay a premium and we stall can’t…
The folks over at i-Beam design created this ingenious design. A house plan that only uses commonly available materials and designed to be built by people that don’t even have construction experience. i-beam Design The whole house can be built in a day. i-beam Design Also it’s upgradable with stuff like insulation, AC, smoke detectors…
A new world Guinness world record was set in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh after more than 1.5 million volunteers planted 66 million tree saplings in a time period of 12 hours. This planting beat the previous record which was set in the state of Uttar Pradesh when 800,000 people planted 50 million trees…
If you ever wanted to live in a big home in Japan, you are in luck. Japan has more than 8 million abandoned or vacant houses and the government is making efforts to populate the houses that have been left empty. Abandoned houses are difficult to manage for owners and they also might not want…
Its safe to assume that all students would like to have shorter school weeks and it seems like this wish has been fulfilled for thousands of them! Many school districts have adopted the 4 day school week to attract more teachers and to effectively cut costs. School District 27j in Brighton, Colorado is one of…
Back in August 2015, a group of researchers at Michigan State University designed a transparent solar concentrator that can turn any window or sheet of glass into a working solar cell. The project was run by Prof. Richard Lunt and their aims were to integrate the use of solar cells into people lives in the…
A village in Italy is offering 2000 euros for anyone willing to go and move there. For all people wanting to relocate to Bormida, in the region of Liguria in North-West Italy will join a community of 394 other people with rent costing as low as 12.50 euros per week. 2000 euros in cash is…
If you are on the lookout for a change in scenery this utopic, picturesque mountain village in Switzerland might just be the thing you need. Called Albinen, the village is now offering handsome sums of money to move to the remote community, the question is would you ? The town is very peaceful and quiet…