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Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

This week the world’s population will reach a whopping 7 billion inhabitants, marking a critical time for us to consider the conservation of natural resources to ensure a sustainable planet for future generations. Experts are already releasing their estimates of where the world’s rapidly accelerating population growth will be by the end of the century. One forthcoming United Nations report...

Design Milk

Dent Cube, new from Inax, is a three-dimensional porcelain stoneware cladding that can be used indoors or out to create a unique wall treatment with custom possibilities.

The collection, developed with the help of architect and designer Teruo Yasuda, includes tiles with special insets into which you can insert glass tiles of various colors (or moss!). Create your own pattern by placing the flat ...

Dezeen

Dutch Design Week 2011: components for this furniture by Rotterdam designers Minale-Maeda can be downloaded, 3D-printed and assembled locally.  (more…)

Serious Eats

[Flickr: Food Thinkers]

The seeds are always an added bonus of carving a pumpkin, like the hidden prize at the bottom of the cereal box. Plus you get the nutty, comforting aroma wafting from the oven as they roast to crunchy perfection.

The process hasn't changed since you were a kid: scoop seeds, dry them, bake until crispy. But if you want some step-by-step photos just to be safe, here's our...

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via http://butdoesitfloat.com/2216307/The-future-is-already-here-it-s-just-not-very-evenly-distributed

Boing Boing

I can't find any further info on this Venn piagram, but surely it belongs in the annals of great math related food humor.

Update: It only took nine minutes for more context to arrive, courtesy of adamhst in the comments: this was created by Redditor HungryHungryHippy in celebration of the last Pi Day.

Venn piagram.

Boing Boing

[Video Link] I've never heard of a bow lathe, much less see one in action. This is a fascinating video of a man in Marrakech who uses a hand-powered lathe to cut wooden chess pieces. He uses his foot to hold the tool steady. Moroccan bow lathe

swissmiss

Have a kid that loves LEGO? Then this Storage Bag & Play Mat-in-One might be the perfect gift.

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great, now I want pie { coffee with an architect }

Boing Boing

Regine Ramseier's "Windstille" installation involved hundreds (thousands?) of fluffy dandelions, sprayed with fixative and hung from the ceiling of a tall, narrow white room. The result is both exuberant and calming, a kind of preserved fragile moment poised on the line between stillness and motion.

(via Neatorama)

Windstille [regineramseier.ch]