Campaign Furniture by former Apple employees takes the sustainable route
Brad Sewell and Raul Molina are former Apple engineers who have started Campaign, a green furniture line based out of San Francisco Bay Area. Their first offerings include a loveseat, a chair and a couch. Their effort is to create furniture that is good to look at while being sustainable. All of this, made available through an affordable pricing. The company’s vertically-integrated manufacturing process reduces waste. Even the parts used are sturdy, durable and eco-friendly. Being ultra-durable the furniture can be shipped using regular parcel post. Brad Sewell and Raul Molina are the brains behind this initiative that may aspire for IKEA-level dreams.
When Remi Takahara joined Tokyo Metro, she never expected to end up growing vegetables for the subway operator. But that has emerged as a new business venture for the company to cash in on underneath elevated railway track in Japan’s busy capital. Tokyo Metro, in cooperation with Metro Development is 
To mark the 50th anniversary of the beginning of development in Cancun, architect and designer Richard Moreta Castillo has announced a breathtaking offshore platform for 2020. Called the Grand Cancun eco-complex, this offshore platform will pack luxury amenities like underwater dining, shopping facilities and much more. But the sheer size of the project and the luxuries it comes packed with isn’t what makes it attention-worthy. This structure is green too!
The sun has tons of uses humankind still hasn’t made the best use of, and this solar oven set up in Parkent, Uzbekistan, is one of the many solar applications that’s receiving attention from around the globe. Constructed to resemble an Aztec temple, this solar furnace is capable of producing temperatures hot enough to heat metal. The curved surface of the furnace’s mirrors measure 175 feet up and across. These direct a beam with a four foot diameter.
The world needs its greenery, but given the fact that the human race simply can’t keep the axes away from trees, creative technology studio Chaotic Moon along with design firm Gensler has come up with futuristic ‘trees’ that will help increase the aesthetic value of open urban spaces, particularly heavily-concretized areas that don’t accommodate real trees easily. Called The Orchad, this 30-foot-tall interactive tree responds to visitors through light and sound. Currently installed in the technologically advanced city of Austin, 30 of these trees are anchored by a steel pole that works as a ‘trunk’.
If you’ve been thinking that farming is something that requires large open landscapes and is pretty impossible in an urban setting, here’s a game-changer. Boston-based agriculture startup Freight Farms is currently working on a concept that could help grow fruits and vegetables organically in urban areas! With the Leafy Green Machine (LGM), Freight Farms is retrofitting shipping containers with fully functional hydroponic farms that come packed with indoor growing technology, while using 90% less water than traditional farming. 
Motor oil isn’t particularly pleasing to the eye and certainly has never been hailed for its aesthetic value, until today. Switzerland’s Bellelay Abbey plays home to two shimmering pools of black that use recycled motor oil to reflect the structure’s soaring interior. The motor oil pools inside the building reflect the ornate arches and ceilings perfectly, thanks to their oily and unbroken surfaces. The motor oil pools contrast well with the chapel’s pristine, white-washed walls.
The United Kingdom is celebrating the times historic nation of Mexico with the “Year of the United Kingdom in Mexico” event. With the festivities kicking off in the U.K.’s Potters Fields Park around the Tower Bridge of London, a massive 25 meter geodesic dome has been erected. What makes this structure attention-worthy is the fact that it covers a base area of 500 square meters and is packed with cutting-edge technology, in order to give visitors a walk down memory lane.
Coffee and cookies are a great combination. What if your coffee cup was made out of cookie, so that you could drink the coffee and the eat the cookie afterwards? KFC has decided to ditch the disposable coffee cups and serve coffee in edible cups called Scoff-ee. Scoff-ee, an excellent product of gastronomic engineering is made up of a cookie shell in the inside and a layer of white chocolate on the outside to give it the look of the coffee cup you use every day. Apart from the looks the taste department was also taken care of very well. The Scoffees don’t only taste delicious but they smell divine too. They have been infused with aromas such as Freshly Cut Grass, Coconut Sun Cream, and Wild Flowers. The aromas used might remind you of warm weather, sunshine, and summer holidays.