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Vegan restaurant CEO inducted into Fast Casual Hall of Fame

  • Teresa Bergen
  • 09/22/2022

In good news for people who love plant-based dining, the CEO of vegan chain Native Foods is about to be inducted into the Fast Casual Hall of Fame. Carin Stutz will share the limelight with two other inductees at Fast Casual’s Executive Summit in Indianapolis on October 9. This honor is one more indication...

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Futuristic architecture responds to the desert sand dunes

  • Laura Cowan
  • 09/22/2022

In the South Gobi Desert of Mongolia, a building created by Margot Krasojevic Architects for SIAC is exploring dormant monolithic architecture in the sand dunes. The Sand Drift Proving Ground responds to the local climate by merging with its environment. The design looks like materials being blown on site by the...

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Naturedesign shapes old materials into sustainable furniture

  • Laura Cowan
  • 09/22/2022

A leading brand in sustainable furniture design, Naturedesign is now in its third generation and is continuing to explore ways of shaping modern furniture out of centuries-old wood. Naturedesign, based in Cerea near Verona, Italy, is now led by Thomas Franco, who has created a new collection using traditional...

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Is the plant-based company Beyond Meat going under?

  • Teresa Bergen
  • 09/21/2022

Is that smell coming from Beyond Meat a delicious charbroiled faux burger? More likely, alas, it’s cash “being incinerated at a troubling rate,” as Motley Fool put it. The promising mock meat brand, a darling of the early pandemic, now is struggling to survive inflation and a fickle public. In 2020,...

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California approves human composting as a way for burial

  • Bonface Landi
  • 09/21/2022

On Sunday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that allows composting of human remains. This effectively means that the residents of California have one more way of disposing bodies of their loved ones. Traditionally, the ways of dealing with dead bodies were cremation and casket burials.  The...

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NION to be one of Frankfurt's most sustainable office spaces

  • Inaara Thawer
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Recently, UNStudio's designs for NION, an office building in Germany, were selected for further development and construction. The building uses a multifaceted sustainable design strategy that features its own microclimate, incorporates efficiently-designed spaces, harnesses passive systems and encourages social...

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  • Bonface Landi
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