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Books we recommend about green and environmental issues. Great place to start learning how to be more green in your day to day life.

How much do you know about your hometown? Author and Inhabitat writer Greg Beach, who moved to Watertown, Massachusetts at age nine, was inspired to dig more into his town's history after the Boston Marathon Bombing...

MVRDV just completed the Tianjin Binhai Public Library, a spectacular cultural center that’s unlike any library we’ve ever seen. Created in collaboration with local architects TUPDI, the 33,800-square-meter library features...

It's not always easy for people in rural Zimbabwe to visit a library, so Rural Libraries and Resources Development Program (RLRDP) brings the library to them...

Book lovers, we’ve found your dream destination - the world’s largest bookstore just opened in Tehran, Iran. The Book Garden is a gigantic green-roofed building measuring 154,000 square feet that has 12 miles of shelves...

Argentine artist Marta Minujín has created a life-sized replica of the Parthenon using 100,000 banned books from around the world. The massive book art installation is a replica of the famous Greek temple where democracy...

President Donald Trump last week announced America would be exiting the Paris Agreement, but now it looks like his administration might be the only ones to leave...

Don’t be fooled by the perfect circular shape of this glowing installation in Bilbao. A closer look reveals that the seemingly solid plane is actually made from thousands of illuminated notebooks. Created by anonymous artist...

We've seen a number of tiny home constructions put to all sorts of good use, but this French nomadic library on wheels is très chic. Built by tiny home specialists La Maison Qui Chemine, the Librairie Itinérante (traveling...

Finding the perfect gift for the eco-conscious Mama in your life is a little more labor intensive than just running out for generic cards or super-market flowers at the last second...

Laramée, who has an extensive background in the arts, is best known for his topographical literary sculptures that take anywhere between days to months to complete...

Inaccurate food labeling is a rampant problem in America. That Kobe steak you ordered? Unless you're at one of three U.S. restaurants to whom Japan sells the rare beef, it's probably a cheaper cut. That white tuna sushi you...

I'm sure for many readers here, Philip Tetlock's famous studies of the predictions of experts need little introduction. His most famous finding - that specialists are considerably worse at making predictions than generalists...

‘Climate Change, What Everyone Needs to Know’ is the climate primer you’ve been waiting for

Susan Crockford has written a novel about people being eaten by polar bears. Here's what she has to say about it.

Miniature libraries, or book stations, are a whole different kind of library. Book lovers can hang out and read at their leisure, or borrow a book to return to any of the stations in the collection. The Public Collection...