Slime Molds are fantastic creatures. As part fungi, part amoeboid, and all slime, their name hails from the time in their life cycle when they are gelatinous. These slimy little organisms are found all over the world feeding on microorganisms from dead plant material. They are found in the soil, on lawns, and in the forest - commonly on deciduous logs. In tropical areas [...]

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Singapore is known for it’s clean streets, argi-design and forward thinking city planners. Yet this takes the cake. The building of the EDITT Tower by the University of Signapore is so green, you’ld think you’ld died and gone to a huge lettuce patch in the sky.

Currently slated for construction in Singapore, the EDITT Tower [...]

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by Xan Rice from the Gaurdian, UK

 Victor Matioli’s organic pumpkins are plump, his coriander aromatic and his spinach “very soft, sweet, and tasty”. His half-acre farm is a former rubbish dump in the heart of east Africa’s biggest slum.

So arresting is the sight of tall sunflowers growing amid the rust-coloured shacks and dirt paths of [...]

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