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NewsEight Exciting Food and Drink Trends Brewing in 2014
Hybrid snacks, whole pigs, one-food wonders and an abundance of green.
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NewsWorld’s Biggest Solar-Powered Bridge Launched in London
Enough power to make 80,000 cups of tea per day.
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NewsFloating Swimming Pools Proposed for the River Thames
Fancy a quick dip before hitting the West End?
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NewsPlants: The Lightbulbs of the Future?
Avatar's glowing forest could become real in your living room.
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GuideThe Best Places to Buy and Order Plants in Melbourne for 2024
There's a whole world of plants out there — here's where to find them.
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GuideWhere to Shop Like a Local In and Around Melbourne CBD for 2024
Some of the best small businesses in the city can be found in the CBD's laneways, alleys and arcades.
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GuideSeven Vivid Sydney Highlights You Need to Add to Your Winter Calendar
With pop-up cabaret bars, thought-provoking conversations and free live music, the 2022 run of Vivid Sydney is set to shine bright.
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GuideMelbourne's Best Florists for Making Grand Gestures
There's nothing like a big, vibrant bunch of freshly-cut blooms to turn a frown upside down.
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NewsEight Stunning Locally Made Jigsaw Puzzles for When Boredom Strikes (Again)
Got too much time to kill? Instead of flicking on the TV, give these beautiful, brain-tickling gems a go.
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GuideThe Best New Melbourne Spaces of 2021
We've rounded up the most stunning buildings and venues unveiled in Melbourne this year.
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NewsAll the Best Australian-Made Picnic Gear for Your Next Park Session
Keep your drinks cool and your shopping local when you plan your next picnic outing.
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GuideSix of This Year's Biggest Boxing Day Sales
Score up to 70 percent off wine, cruelty-free makeup and activewear at these online sales.
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GuideSix of This Year's Biggest Black Friday Sales
Score up to 70 percent off reusable cups, homewares and sportswear at these online sales.
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GuideWhere To Shop Like a Local in and Around Brighton
These great bayside businesses are well worth a look in.
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NewsLondon to be Heated with Underground Trains and Food Waste
Cold cities are getting creative in how they keep warm.
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NewsElevated Car-Free SkyCycle Paths Proposed for London
Move over flying cars; here's a healthier future.
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NewsSecond Hinterlands Project Proposes Urban Playgrounds Made From Snow
A design duo propose a playful response to heavy snowfall.
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NewsThe Perfect Tee Kickstarter Promises Organic Cotton, Ethics and Fair Prices
Introducing the 'perfect Tee' - stylish, comfy, organic, Australian-made, $55.
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NewsPlantable Christmas Wrapping Paper that Turns Into a Vegie Garden
One surefire way to green up Christmas this year.
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NewsNot Just a Tree-house but a Tree-in-the-House
Could this be the most impressive tree-house ever?
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NewsPaper-Bottled Do Water Launches in Australia
Move over plastic, the paper water bottle is here.
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NewsDine In or Dine Out, as Long as You Give a Fork!
Get in the practice of eating sustainably, before the world gets too forked up.
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NewsFloating Apartment Block Under Construction in The Netherlands
If you can't beat the water, how about joining it?
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NewsThe Kiosk That Prints Magazines and Newspapers On Demand
Finally, access to Dolly Doctor right when you need it.
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EventEtta's Summer Seafood Towers
Fri, 22 Nov - Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Etta, Brunswick East
This incredible wine bar and restaurant is serving decadent seafood towers for just $75 per person every Friday and Saturday afternoon.
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EventPortsea Hotel's Summer Music Series
Multiple single dates
Portsea Hotel, Portsea
The Presets, Jake Webb, Darley and DJ Levi will be playing waterfront gigs this summer at Portsea Hotel.
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EventLong Live Longnecks at BANG
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025
BANG at The StandardX, Fitzroy
You can get two-for-one Melbourne Bitter Longnecks and $1 homemade dumplings during this happy hour deal.
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EventMoon Dog's Fizzer BYO Cup Day
Sun, 1 Dec, 2024
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
BYO drinking vessel, get it filled with free Moon Dog Fizzer — and celebrate the first day of summer in style.
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EventALWAYS LIVE — Yerambooee
Sat, 7 Dec, 2024
Federation Square, Melbourne
A free communal celebration of First Nations legend and song.
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EventALWAYS LIVE — Garage Band
Sat, 7 Dec - Sun, 8 Dec 2024
Federation Square, Melbourne
A free event shining the spotlight on Victoria's talented young musicians.
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EventBridge Road Brewers' Spring Tasting in the City
Fri, 29 Nov - Sat, 30 Nov 2024
Bridge Road Brewers Brunswick, Brunswick East
This afternoon of tasting session let's you explore a lesser-known Victorian wine region (Beechworth) without leaving Melbourne.
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EventTerasu Japanese Dining Pop-Up at Portsea Hotel
Fri, 3 Jan - Sun, 19 Jan 2025
Portsea Hotel, Portsea
Chef Yukio Ozeki is serving up a a luxe six-course Japanese feed at Mornington Peninsula's beloved Portsea Hotel for only a few weeks in January.
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EventHome Truth
Wed, 13 Nov 2024 - Sun, 27 Apr 2025
NGV International, Melbourne
A house-within-a-house labyrinth has popped up outside the NGV International to get everyone thinking about small-scale architecture.
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EventSpanish BBQ Fiesta on Pinchy's Balcony
Sun, 1 Dec - Sun, 22 Dec 2024
Pinchy's, Melbourne
Hit up this CBD restaurant on Sunday arvos in December for unlimited food and drinks on its sun-soaked terrace.
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NewsThe Future of Gardening’s Looking Up
Patrick Blanc talks to Concrete Playground about the vertical garden phenomenon.
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NewsOil Paint Engineered Out of Toxic Waste
An engineer and an artist transform toxic waste into oil paints and wondrous works of art.
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NewsUncarriable Carrier Bags Shaming Us Into Environment Protection
The plastic bag fashion statement that may just save the environment.
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NewsHouston’s Beer Can House Becomes an Official Landmark
One of architecture's most impressive recycling achievements is drawing more visitors than ever before.
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NewsConcrete-Devouring Robots Recycle Entire Demolished Buildings
Is this the key to continued urban redevelopment?
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NewsUrban Home Gardening Utilising the Cloud
Too busy for gardening but tired of tasteless supermarket produce?
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NewsBehold, an Electric Scooter Made from Plants
Who knew compressed plants could be such a great way to get around?
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NewsArtist Plans To Explore Relationship With Nature By Living In An Egg
In one of the finer examples of literally living and breathing your work, meet The Exbury Egg.
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NewsLondon's Olympic Village to Provide Low-Income Housing
A welcome development, given the Olympics' less-than-desirable treatment of the homeless.
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NewsVintage Bikes Upcycled with Modern Parts
Canadian company reCycledride fuses the old with the new to create unique two-wheelers.
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NewsKickstarter Project Aims to Build a Pool in New York’s East River
New Yorkers are determined to make their river (or part of it, at least) clean enough to swim in.
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NewsReimagining How to Build Cities on a Human Scale
Andreas Dalsgaard, director of The Human Scale, explains how we address the contradictions of contemporary cities.
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NewsA Bike That Unlocks The Pedal Power In Your Hands
Get your hands in on the action with the new 4 Strike Bike.
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NewsSingapore Stunning Garden Hotel Opens
Singapore's new Park Royal takes green living to a whole other level.
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NewsHow Glowing Plants Could Replace Light Bulbs
Bioluminescent plants and crowd funding are set to save the world from the carbon monster.
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NewsSingles to Get Train Carriage for Flirting on Prague Metro
One way to spice up your workday commute.
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NewsDrinking Pays for Public Transport with the Beer Turnstile
Don't drink and drive; drink and catch the train
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NewsBuildings Grow a Skin in the Name of Sustainability
House too hot? Cool it down with a whole heap of wood.
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NewsTransforming Modern Waste into Architecture
'Waste not, want not' is the catch-cry of Dutch design and architecture studios, Superuse.
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NewsGourds Transformed into Building Blocks
Does one of the world's oldest cultivated plants hold the key to sustainable construction?
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NewsA Sustainable Alternative to Leather
The Netherlands-based Studio Tjeerd Veenhoven has recently developed a new vegan textile from the Areca palm.
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