The lesser known black market trade: Butterflies Imagine a dimly lit room in a Tokyo bar where a group of eager collectors huddle over a table, each trying to outbid the others for small, white triangular envelopes. This scene might evoke images of black-market dealings involving ivory or rhino horn, but in this case, the […]
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Urban Mining: A way towards a circular economy and better resource management The concept of urban mining represents a paradigm shift in how we view construction and resource management, treating urban waste not as refuse, but as a valuable reservoir that can be systematically harvested and repurposed across various applications. This approach encompasses a
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What does an architect do? Introduction An architect in its simplest definition is a qualified person who designs, plans and supervises the construction of a building. The word architect is routed in the Greek word ‘arkhi’ meaning chief and ‘tekton’ meaning builder. Architects have probably been around for as long as people were building shelters
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How Urban Farming Can Transform Our Cities: From Necessity to Sustainability Introduction: Urban farming, a concept deeply embedded in the annals of history, experienced a profound resurgence during the Second World War in the United Kingdom. As food shortages gripped the nation, citizens turned to innovative solutions, converting urban spaces into productive plots to supplement
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Unveiling the Vile: The Problem with Greenwashing In a world increasingly concerned about environmental sustainability, consumers and businesses alike are eager to jump on the green bandwagon. But while many corporations tout their eco-friendly initiatives, there’s a dark side lurking beneath the surface: greenwashing. Greenwashing, the deceptive practice of presenting a green public image while
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Groundwater: A Limited Resource Groundwater is a crucial part of the earth’s water cycle, which sustains healthy ecosystems around the world. At its most basic, groundwater refers to water that has collected deep underground in porous rock and soil. These deposits can be accessed from the surface through wells and boreholes, or they can seep
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How to care for Hoya in the home Hoya, also known as the wax plant or porcelain flower, is a climbing evergreen tropical perennial plant in the Apocynaceae family, with over 5,000 accepted species. They are mostly found in Asia and Australia, growing in warm, humid jungles where they thrive in the underbrush of the
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Can we Geoengineer our way out of Climate Change? After last year’s disastrous COP28 and record-breaking heat in 2023, it is clear that humanity won’t transition away from fossil fuels soon enough to curb the worst effects of climate change. But is it possible to engineer our way out of this problem? Geoengineering attempts
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COP28: The Highs, the lows and the scary As you might know, COP28 is currently underway in Dubai in The United Arab Emirates. COP is an international climate meeting held each year by the United Nations to agree on voluntary actions to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. From the very beginning,
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Fighting climate-despair with Hope Introduction: Climate despair, also called Ecological grief is defined as “the grief reaction stemming from the environmental loss of ecosystems by natural and man-made events.”[4] Another definition is “the grief felt in relation to experienced or anticipated ecological losses, including the loss of species, ecosystems, and meaningful landscapes due to acute or chronic environmental change.
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