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What if a sustainable building didn’t just avoid harming the environment, but actively functioned as an ecosystem in its own right, sheltering endangered species, sequestering carbon, and rewilding the land beneath it? This is the research question behind EDEN, an ambitious architectural initiative from the OXMAN design lab.
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With the ongoing global focus on increasing gross domestic products, natural capital becomes an innocent and seemingly inevitable byproduct. Ecosystems and natural resources are not infinite, yet the industrialized economy treats them as if they were.
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The MENA region produces more than 155 million tonnes of waste per year, a figure expected to double by 2050.
Waste is already causing US$ 7 billion (EUR 6 billion) in environmental damage each year, says the World Bank in a new report.
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