A long glass tube in a forest is not what you’d normally call an office, but it’s home to to architecture practice Selgas Cano in Madrid. A mind-bending idea, executions and photos — I wonder if someone in Singapore would set up something similar on the slopes of Mount Faber or something.

[Via Ouno Design]

This weird-looking and endangered animal is described as looking like ‘an oversized shrew’ and a ‘slow moving clumsy runner’. Also known as the Agouta, the nocturnal Hispaniolan Solenodon has glands (in the armpits and groin) that give it a ‘goat-like smell’. To shard the already low self-esteem of this species, the females have their teats near their butts.

But hey… these guys can inject their prey with a venom-loaded bite. That’s quite… bad-ass.

Well, the truth is […] we can’t solve global warming because I f***ing changed light bulbs in my house. It’s because of something collective.

›› Barack Obama letting it out before the elections

No batteries needed! Just add water and some salt and it works! You just have to keep adding some salt every couple of days, but this is one clock that works without any electricity at all.

Recycling materials is a great idea, but recycling newspapers into bags while keeping the newsprint intact is quite brilliant! If you are waiting for someone or something and you have this bag with you, you know you will definitely have something to read.

1. Keep your windows closed at high speeds—drag from open windows can reduce a car’s fuel efficiency by 10 percent.
2. Cleaning 100 pounds of junk from your car will get you up to 2 percent more miles per gallon.
3. Tighten your gas cap—a leaking or missing cap can release 30 gallons of fuel per year into the atmosphere.

(Blatantly reproduced from Discover Magazine.)

The battles of yesterday were fought over land… Those of the present center on oil. But those of the future, a future made hotter and dryer by climate change in much of the world, will focus on a much more basic resource: water.

›› Desertification of the landscape may be a real threat

• Unplug your devices when they are not in use.
• Find and switch off the other “off” switch (like the ones at the back your computer).
• Plug your devices into a power strip and switch off/unplug the power strip when not in use.
• Better still, try using a smart strip.
• Remove your chargers from the socket when you are done charging.
• Buy Energy Star qualified products.

[Via Huddler]

Great message and nicely paced animation for Honda from Wieden + Kennedy London.

Using cloth bags has been seen as an extreme act of a crazed environmentalist. We want it to be seen as something a smart progressive person would carry.

›› Vincent Cobb, founder and president of reusablebags.com

The Sunlight to Petrol, or S2P, project has found a way of using sunlight to recycle carbon dioxide and produce fuels like methanol or petrol.

My question is, why the fuck aren’t we using sunlight to power our offices and homes in the first place?