BY: ROB HOFFMAN GoPro has pretty much taken over the action-sports world, letting viewers see through the eyes of top athletes to imagine themselves carving down near-vertical mountain drops, popping backflips over canyons and surfing through 20-foot barrels. The beauty…
The Feds are being sued for turning a blind eye to Nestlé’s drought crimes
BY: TYLER FYFE If you found yourself walking though the pines of San Bernardino National Forest, you would also find yourself stumbling upon metal scaffolding and a 4-inch stainless steel pipe. The pipe stretches from Strawberry Creek to a Nestlé…
10 photos compare the environmental cost of mining to the tiny amount of product it yields
BY: JOHN DILLON Photos: Dillon Marsh You might think twice before falling victim to the famous De Beers Ad Campaign and proposing to your lover with an opulent diamond ring after seeing the massive amounts of landmass they have removed…
Afghan weavers are putting images of drones on their rugs as a form of silent protest
BY: TYLER FYFE In Afghanistan, weavers have used designs on rugs as a way of preserving the cultural fabric of home. Weavers of the past were drawn to images of flowers and traditional geometric patterns. But with over a decade…
The Earth Cruiser is like a rugged eco-RV that takes you both off-road and off-grid
BY: STEFANIE PHILLIPS For generations families across North America have loved vacationing from the comfort of an RV. We’ve all seen that movie scene where the typical American family stops at the Grand Canyon, descends from their comfortable motor home…
Need to ease the noose of modern life? Take a virtual tour of this mountainside eco village
BY: CONNOR BRIAN All images © Kevin Faingnaert Follow the rainbow-painted signs and after a three-hour hike shaded by thick forest canopy you will reach a clearing of green sweeping hills bathed in golden sunlight—a place untouched by capitalist ideals,…
This solar-powered “e-mailable” home is designed to snap together without nails or power tools
BY: ROB HOFFMAN A bunch of students from Clemson University just designed and produced a carbon neutral prefab solar-house named Indigo Pine, designed to snap together without any nails, and erectable in under a week. Solar panels spread out across…
Research shows that people are ditching religion and turning their attention to nature instead
BY: SWIKAR OLI Science is showing that the spiritual experience of watching the sun cascade through a ceiling of trees is being preferred to the long-winded sermons of synagogue or Sunday mass. A Baylor University study confirmed that people who…
For the first time in American history more women are graduating from college than men
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In 1940, under five per cent of the U.S. population held a bachelor’s degree. Of the population that did, men were much more likely to have a college education than women. In fact, it would have taken…
Photos reveal a depressing truth when men are Photoshopped out of World institutions
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In the past 20 years the percentage of women in parliament has almost doubled. The bad news is that even doubled, that number sits at a meagre 22 per cent. It’s a number that leaves me disheartened,…
Aston Martin is releasing a new electric-powered supercar with 1,000 horsepower
BY: ROB HOFFMAN The slow crawl of the electric-automobile, once been reserved for the Lisa Simpson-type driver, was just given a James Bond makeover by Aston Martin, recently dropping projections for their new electric supercar set to be released by…
“Churnalism” is the McDouble of the mind in the age of fast-food information
BY: TYLER FYFE I sit at my desk, strained eyes broiled by the white light of my laptop screen, mouses constantly clicking like an insolent metronome. I’m thinking about all the stories that are being left untold—the important stories just…
The 2015 Wildlife Photography winners were just announced and the photos are incredible
BY: ERIC ZDANCEWICZ The London Natural History Museum announced the winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition on October 13, and the photos show the beauty and the struggles of the diverse creatures we share this planet with.…
Haunting photo series will open your eyes to the sad reality of the modern relationship
BY: JESSICA BEUKER A family sits down for breakfast at a New York café. Illium café it’s called. The family sits together, yet no one is talking. The father and two daughters have their phones out, while the mother, who…
This urban escape trailer can pretty much do everything an Airstream can’t
BY: EDITORS The Airstream travel trailer is the ultimate vehicle of the American nomadic lifestyle if your definition of urban escape is open roads and national parks. But there are some people who want an experience unsoiled by nature-themed gift…
Two physicists are defying the Israeli army to bring this village sustainable energy & clean water
BY: SWIKAR OLI Palestinian residents in the Southern Hebron hills of the West Bank don’t have access to electricity, save for a rare few who can afford expensive diesel generators. Israeli soldiers have tried restricting the villages’ energy access and…
Terrifying photographs of people who are allergic to their environment
BY: ELI ROSS Amid the hectic, smog filled environment of New York City, photographer Thilde Jensen’s health began to deteriorate. Week by week, the once lively and optimistic socialite began to feel her body and life outlook become as frail as…
Google is preparing for a zero-waste economy where all products are 100% recyclable
BY: TYLER FYFE In nature, the earth is both a starting block and a finish line. So what if we thought about our factories the same way? Behold the most basic explanation of a circular economy. Imagine if instead of…
Infographic shows the top ten most shameful lies that companies have used to sell their products
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In the consumeristic vortex of modern life, it’s important to constantly remind ourselves that, despite the encouragement of blinking advertisements and slick marketing specialists, for-profit business is rarely erected out of the kindness of the CEO’s heart—and…
Photos capture the 20km expanse of Fukushima’s radioactive-rubble overtaken by nature
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Though human-made environmental disasters like Fukushima cripple the earth, nature always gets the last laugh. A recent survey established a thriving region of untapped wildlife in the abandoned and overgrown expanse of Chernobyl’s exclusion zone. Following in…