Category Archives: curiosity

Women living in the countryside live longer and better, these are the surprising results of a study of T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard that show that women who live surrounded by greenery have a lower mortality rate of 12% compared to those living in cities. The study lasted 8 years and involved little […]

Did you know that there is a small community of people who pass their life in a forest, living in tree-houses? Is not Koroway Tribe in Nuova Guinea but instead people like us that left their boring life downtown to live a life as much as possible melted with nature! The Sleeping Beauty… of the cestnuts […]

In spring and in summer we have an abound of sunny days, and what better time to go out for a walk in the woods, or simply in a park to pick up some wild herbs? We can take advantage by carring with us a basket and looking for a little wild flower or a […]

What if we didn’t longer thinks just in terms of “how much money it cost me” before we buy a product or before traveling but we thought “how many trees will it cost?” This is the idea behind HowManyTrees, website of ​​two engineers who we met few days ago. In the website, answering simple questions about your lifestyle, you […]

Yale University tells us about the world in terms of its sustainability. A few weeks ago, they posted the Environmental Performance Index of 2016, a project started 15 years by the World Economic Forum, which reveals the greenest countries of the world. The researchers examined twenty indicators on the protection of human health and the health […]

The numbers in the study of the MacArthur Foundation, presented at the opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos, are alarming and shocking. If nothing will change, if mankind will continue to destroy the seas of the Earth, in 2050 there will be more plastic than fish. Our plastic production does not diminish but […]

Walking in the woods helps fight negative thoughts: there is a new study to prove it, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, conducted at Stanford University by researcher Gregory Bratman. The study (which you can read here) involved 38 subjects living in urban areas. They were subjected to a questionnaire designed to […]

San Francisco bans plastic bottles, and it’s the first city to do so. The citizens, though encouraged to use clean and free tap water, can still purchase plastic bottles; but in public buildings and properties of the city plastic bottles will become illegal in a few days. In the United States each year are used almost 50 […]

Imagine a completely autonomous home that allows you to live in the most remote places of the world, a mini holiday house that you can carry everywhere, from the sea to the mountains. It  has become reality. By the Slovak architectural firm Nice Architects of Bratislava comes a new opportunity for sustainable lifestyle with the ecocapsule. It’s a mini home […]

A few days ago the Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy of France Segolene Royal said that France will invest in solar roads. The country over the next five years will cover 1,000 kilometers of roads with photovoltaic panels, making solar roads that can provide green energy for at least 5 million inhabitants. And if now […]