10:03 am in designers, furniture, germany, recycled, recycled consumer goods, recycled fashion by TreeHugger
Photos: Tobias Juretzek
From
farmhouse beams, to
refrigerators and
naval mines, furniture made from old -- and odd -- materials is nothing new, but what about furniture that's made from clothing? Defying expectations of what mere clothing can do,...
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9:46 am in germany, less is more, shipping container architecture by TreeHugger

Images credit
Nils Günther
This is different:
Dezeen shows a police box in front of the Turkish Consulate in Hanover. The police used to sit in an old Volkswagen van, but an architect with the German firm
Gesamtkonzept proposed something better, and surprisingly, they accepted the idea. ...
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2:21 pm in alternative energy, germany, News, nucleare power by TreeHugger
Photo: Wikipedia, CC
To Replace Nuclear Power Plants Scheduled to be Shut Down
Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, announced that her country would need to build
a lot of fossil fuel power plants to pick up the slack from nuclear power plants that are
scheduled to be shut down. She said: "If we want to exit nuclear energy and enter renewable energy, for the transition time we need ...
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Tags: global warming