BY: MICHAEL LYONS “Imagine walking into a room of people,” a calm voiceover says with an ambient piano refrain playing behind it. A young man is shown walking through a door into a crowded space. “They are all strangers, but…
IKEA designs pre-made tiny-homes to send to refugee camps around the world
BY: ZOE MELNYK IKEA recently announced plans to send 10,000 out-of-the-box-ready refugee shelters to people in need around the world. Working with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, IKEA’s foundation called Better Shelter will be providing more sustainable homes for struggling…
Family ditches urban society to live in the pristine nature of Italy (Video)
PHOTOGRAPHER: Simone Donati Away from the grip of oppressive cubicles and 9 to 5 grind of urban society, Angelo and Angela live a simple life. The chose to live deliberately— choosing the food they consume, and the way they educate…
Less than 1% of Swedish trash ends up in a landfill
BY: ZOE MELNYK It’s difficult to imagine a world without trash, but Sweden seems to be heading in the right direction with less than one per cent of its trash actually reaching landfills. When compared to the United States’ 34.5…
Badass farmer asks oil and gas commissioners to drink U.S. groundwater that’s contaminated by fracking
BY: SINEAD MULHERN James Osborn, a farmer from Nebraska recently turned up at a Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission meeting to talk about a proposal for fracking waste water. The issue is about whether or not to turn an inactive…
Photographer takes aerial drone photos that would be considered entirely illegal today
Photography by Amos Chapple © When drone technology was first introduced, there was a golden era where a photographer could fly his camera just about anywhere he pleased. Yet the popularity of drones led to a public debate over privacy…
This man built a tiny home in the Pacific-Northwest wilderness for under $500
Though the tiny-house movement has attracted major attention in recent years, there are still two major problems that the average person faces when they think about building their own micro home: 1. Though mini-homes cost pennies compared to a mortgage,…
This summer London is opening a public eco-pool that is filtered entirely by plants
The UK’s first naturally filtered outdoor swimming pool is opening in London this May. The bathing pond will use plants instead of chemicals or machinery to keep the water clean, which will in addition provide habitat for wetland fauna. The…
This California start-up will deliver weed to your door
BY: DANIEL KORN When I was in high school, there was a popular service called Dial-A-Bottle. You’d call up the company, tell them what booze you wanted, and they’d have a guy drive over to your location and drop it…
A look into the strange and secretive lives of Canadian Mennonites who fled to Bolivia (Photos)
Self-taught documentary photographer, Jordi Ruiz Cirera stepped outside of her comfort zone in 2010 and started a project called, Los Menonos. By exploring a world unknown to her, she was introduced to a lifestyle more humble than most city-dwellers could…
In 2017, you can buy a robot chef that will mimic the world’s best cooks
BY: DANIEL KORN One of my favourite bits of technology in Star Trek is the “Replicator,” a big grey box that can materialize any object you tell it to. Its most common use in the show is for food and…
Good Guy CEO cuts his $1 million salary to make the minimum wage $70,000
BY: TYLER FYFE Dan Price started his business out of his college dorm room on the standard student diet of stale wonder bread and pizza pops. Now the Founder and CEO of a privately owned credit card payment-processing firm, Price apparently…
This TV show made fashion bloggers work in the sweatshops their clothing came from (Video)
BY: ROB HOFFMAN A month long reality TV series was recently produced by Norway’s largest newspaper, Aftenposten, in which popular fashion blogger, Anniken Jørgensen, and avid consumers, Frida Ottesen and Ludvig Hambro, were taken on a surprise trip to Cambodia…
3 important things being single has taught me about myself
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Among the hordes of cute couples holding hands as they stroll the streets of Kensington Market, amidst the tables of flirting twosomes at my local coffee shop, I sit alone, reading my book and drinking my coffee,…
The first and final frames of famous movies will make you think like a director (Video)
BY: LAURA ROJAS Films, stripped down to their main elements, are composed of form, structure, and detail. In fact, the formal elements that play together within visuals impact us more deeply than we often realize. Cool tones, warm hues, darkness…
I was on the camera crew for Keys To The VIP and it was truly f*cked up
BY: PATRICK MALONEY It was my TV guilty pleasure, and my first television gig. Just in case you’re not acquainted, Keys to the VIP was a sleazy reality TV show on the Comedy Network where two contestants competed against each other…
Here’s how to play the travel industry and fly around the world for free
BY: SINEAD MULHERN A 28-year-old American journalist is proving that travelling the world doesn’t have to leave your wallet feeling light. In fact, he’s going to 13 countries for nearly zero cost reported Business Insider. Scott Keyes is a magazine…
Decoding the hidden meaning behind Russian prison tattoos (Photos)
Photography by: Sergei Vasiliev The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive is hosted by: FUEL There is a reason that Russian tattoos are the most feared and respected thing in prison society. Far from being merely personal, they carry a burden of meaning that…
How to make $250,000 a year from dumpster diving
BY: MATTHEW MCGLOUGHLIN It started nine years ago while digging through a corporate client’s garbage. While looking for information that could cultivate a cyber attack—and finding plenty of it—Matt Malone got curious. Taking a peek inside the dumpster behind OfficeMax,…
Since founding New Zealand’s most violent gang, this man changed his life for the better (Video)
The Mighty Mongrel Mob is New Zealand’s largest and most powerful street gang. They constitute a web of over thirty gang chapters nationally, with members dressed in distinguishable red flags, swastikas, prominent face tattoos and their signature MMM patch of…