When a librarian has a 110-year-old tree stump near her home, she turns it into a library. The librarian Sharalee Armitage Howard works at the Idaho Coeur d’Alene Public Library and when an aging cottonwood tree started to rot and was planned for cutting due to safety, she knew she […]
Have you heard about the Vietnamese mossy frogs?-This frog is able to throw its voice up to 10 to 13 feet and has some impressive skills for disguise. Plus, it’s very hard to spot them in the wild because of their strong disguising skills! This frog, a lot like other […]
Boys and girls, when life gives you lemons, make trees, right? Next time you’re done using a lemon and you’re about to throw it in the bin, don’t forget to save up few of the seeds-you can grow your own tree with them! Lemon trees are aesthetically pleasing thanks to […]
Capsula Mundi is an egg-shaped pod that allows for a buried corpse or ashes to supply a tree planted above it with nutrients and help it grow. Indeed, our carbon footprint doesn’t end with our death- while we rest in peace, the wood, the synthetic cushioning, and the metals used […]
One of the most enigmatic and profound questions in life is definitely ‘what happens to us when we die?’ Even though we don’t have any insights on afterlife, we do have news about what can be done with our body after we die. The after-death centre Recompose offers a new […]
Reduce. Reuse. Grow is a company from California which has launched biodegradable coffee cups that has seeds in it in order for it to be replanted after use and grow into a tree. Each of the cups has native seeds from the area where it will be available. The project […]