Shrimp farming, an industry that supplies the world with over 5 million metric tons of shrimp each year, is known throughout the environmental community as one of the world’s most destructive coastal industries. Aquaculture, the type of industry utilized by shrimp companies in areas like Southeast Asia, dramatically reduces biological diversity, degrades habitats, reduces genetic variability, [...]

Bangkok, Thailand’s capital city, is rapidly sinking. To make matters worse, sea levels around the country are rising rapidly. Rather than constructing levees or dams, S+PBA bothered to ask — Why not use nature’s existing resources to prevent natural disasters that are affecting not only Thailand’s biggest cities but its most vulnerable populations? The company’s [...]

                        The Why Factory, a research group headed by architect Winy Maas, is asking another question: Why can’t artwork be big, beautiful, and help save the planet? The group has a new plan for Phuket, Thailand — and it involves a series of graceful [...]