The Fujishiges watched the area around their farm change as Disneyland took shape nearby. For decades, a small family farm stood next to Disneyland in Anaheim, California. While the theme park expanded around it, the Fujishige family continued to grow strawberries, vegetables and herbs on their land.The farm had become an unusual sight in an…

Image: Earthship’s official site A Kansas couple is turning thousands of discarded everyday objects into an unusual home designed for a region where extreme weather can arrive with little warning. Their Earthship incorporates about 1,000 tyres, 16,000 aluminium cans and 1,000 cardboard boxes, transforming materials that would ordinarily enter waste streams into components of a…

The study began with an unusual marine worm, Olavius algarvensis. The little animal has neither a mouth nor a digestive tract. Long before humans learned how to turn petroleum into bottles and bags and packaging, nature had already invented her own plastic. These natural polymers have been made for hundreds of millions of years hidden…