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Turniture: The Chool Turns from a Stool To A Chair

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it “LifeEdited.” You can help: Enter the design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and possibly design the apartment! The Chool might fit in a LifeEdited; James Lucas of Slam designed it so that it sits like a stool, not taking up much room, until you sit on it. This action causes the mechanism ins… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Red Nest By Paul Coudamay Hides The Bed With A Sliding Bookcase

Photos by Benjamin Boccas via Paul Coudamay TreeHugger has shown many ways to hide the bed; most are designed to gain more space. But the Red Nest by Paul Coudamay doesn’t; the bed is still there taking up space, but is hidden by the sliding bookcase. Why do it?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Coral Species in Red Sea Barely Growing, Thanks to Global Warming

A CT scan showing slow coral growth of a coral species in the Red Sea. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . Global warming is wreaking havoc on plant and animal populations around the world: Polar bear habitats are melting, giant trees in Yosemite are thinning , and

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Tiny Transformer Kitchen Occupies Less Than 10 Square Feet When Closed

The challenge in the “1, 2, 3… easy kitchen!” competition shown in Designboom was to design a kitchen that occupied less than 1 square meter (about 10 square feet). Kristin Laass and Norman Ebelt of burg giebichenstein: hochschule fur kunst und design halle have done it with real style. Opened, it has everything: a fridge, sink, induction range and oven…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Work Anywhere With Kruikantoor, a Combination of Wheelbarrow And Office

TreeHugger loves mobile designs that allow multiple uses of space or that fold up and go away when not needed. Mocoloco shows us Dutch designer Tim Vinke’s Kruikantoor. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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