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Sustainability

Green Roofs on Homes Gain Popularity for Reducing Heat, Noise, and Rain Impact in Brazil

Caio Aviz 23/06/2026 at 13:37

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Without power for millions, Madagascar receives a proposal for a floating hydroelectric plant inspired by the baobab that promises clean energy, greenhouses, and tourism, but still needs to be realized.

Geovane Souza 21/06/2026 at 15:29

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In the middle of a forest in the USA, a couple transforms over 1,500 recycled tires, bottles, cans, and clay into an ecological mansion, builds 90% of the house with their own hands, and puts the nearly 7-acre self-sustaining refuge up for sale for $1.3 million.

Ana Alice 19/06/2026 at 00:04

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A house built with thousands of discarded glass bottles draws attention in the Tucson desert.

Alisson Ficher 12/06/2026 at 20:03

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Family builds a house inside a giant greenhouse in Norway, grows fruits in winter, and creates an almost self-sufficient home with solar energy, biomass, and micro-hydroelectric power.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 12/06/2026 at 08:26

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While many green buildings use plants only as decoration, in Japan an entire building has become an urban mountain with 14 levels of gardens, terraced steps, and a direct connection to a park in the center of Fukuoka.

Flavia Marinho 27/05/2026 at 20:14

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USA abandons cement and brick and invests in Light Steel Frame, a system with galvanized steel that reduces construction by up to 70%, improves thermal and acoustic insulation, and delivers houses with millimeter precision and less waste.

Alisson Ficher 23/05/2026 at 19:27

Construction

Fish sludge becomes sustainable building material in China and reveals technology that could change the future of architecture

Caio Aviz 20/05/2026 at 16:28

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The royal house that looks like it’s straight out of the Flintstones uses granite as a natural structure and reveals a surprising way to build without clashing with the landscape.

Caio Aviz 18/05/2026 at 14:41

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Italian architects create a 3D-printed house with local clay, without traditional bricks, using soil from the site itself to build a 60 m² dwelling in about 200 hours of printing.

Alisson Ficher 16/05/2026 at 22:03

Construction

Architecture that floats instead of resists surprises specialists: light constructions transform flooded areas into habitable spaces and redefine the concept of resilience

Jefferson Augusto 10/05/2026 at 21:31

Construction

‘Plastic’ houses starting from R$ 60 thousand arrive in Brazil with geodesic domes made from recycled materials, quick assembly, thermal and acoustic insulation, complete automation, and a triangular structure that reduces costs and environmental impact.

Alisson Ficher 05/05/2026 at 15:07

Green Roofs on Homes Gain Popularity for Reducing Heat, Noise, and Rain Impact in Brazil

Without power for millions, Madagascar receives a proposal for a floating hydroelectric plant inspired by the baobab that promises clean energy, greenhouses, and tourism, but still needs to be realized.

In the middle of a forest in the USA, a couple transforms over 1,500 recycled tires, bottles, cans, and clay into an ecological mansion, builds 90% of the house with their own hands, and puts the nearly 7-acre self-sustaining refuge up for sale for $1.3 million.

A house built with thousands of discarded glass bottles draws attention in the Tucson desert.

Family builds a house inside a giant greenhouse in Norway, grows fruits in winter, and creates an almost self-sufficient home with solar energy, biomass, and micro-hydroelectric power.

While many green buildings use plants only as decoration, in Japan an entire building has become an urban mountain with 14 levels of gardens, terraced steps, and a direct connection to a park in the center of Fukuoka.

USA abandons cement and brick and invests in Light Steel Frame, a system with galvanized steel that reduces construction by up to 70%, improves thermal and acoustic insulation, and delivers houses with millimeter precision and less waste.

Fish sludge becomes sustainable building material in China and reveals technology that could change the future of architecture

The royal house that looks like it’s straight out of the Flintstones uses granite as a natural structure and reveals a surprising way to build without clashing with the landscape.

Italian architects create a 3D-printed house with local clay, without traditional bricks, using soil from the site itself to build a 60 m² dwelling in about 200 hours of printing.

Architecture that floats instead of resists surprises specialists: light constructions transform flooded areas into habitable spaces and redefine the concept of resilience

‘Plastic’ houses starting from R$ 60 thousand arrive in Brazil with geodesic domes made from recycled materials, quick assembly, thermal and acoustic insulation, complete automation, and a triangular structure that reduces costs and environmental impact.

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.

Júlia Pimentel, an 11-year-old from Minas Gerais, independently invented a new formula to calculate the square root using simple addition and multiplication, and her method was published in one of the most important mathematical scientific journals in Brazil.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Heir bought 23,000 degraded acres in the Scottish Highlands, fenced the area, planted nearly 1 million native trees, and transformed empty mountains into a forest officially recognized after meeting 15 evaluation criteria over 20 years.

The Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, was covered in flowers and turned into a colorful carpet with more than 200 species in the phenomenon called “desert bloom,” when atypical rains awaken seeds that had remained dormant in the soil for many years.