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Dwell and Inahbitat have announced the finalists for ReBurbia! You can vote at their website for your favourite idea.
The submissions range from totally impossible to easy to implement to insanely practical.
I really like the AIRBIA idea because it looks slick and just imagine a city with dirigibles functioning similarly to commuter trains.

I wonder if these fake plastic trees will look like the real thing. Researchers are advocating the use of fake trees that absorbs CO2 and turns the gas into something useful. I wonder if these fakes can be what we need all the time near highways and airports.
The “tree” uses plastic leaves that capture the [...]

If you have an automobile that sits around in a parking lot for a long time then you should start baking! Here’s a simple way to bake cookies in your car. Turn that empty car interior into something useful and delicious :)
It is scorching hot here and to put that heat to good use (i.e. [...]

Every so often I decide to play around with the look and the feel of the site. Today is one of those days, so the site will look different today as I have fun redesigning it.

Those silly monkees might have been right after all, it is good to believe in daydreamers as they might solve problems faster.
“People assume that when the mind wanders away it just gets turned off – but we show the opposite, that when it wanders, it turns on,” said Christoff, co-author of the study, and head [...]

A website called Building has found five great green videos that centre around design for a better future.
Canvas Bags – Tim Minchin