This brilliant talk from Tshering Tobgay, of Bhutan, who explains how his country is more than carbon neutral. It is a fantastic talk that is one of the inspirations behind our Chelsea Fringe 2017 project, Capture Carbon In Your Garden.

This TED talk from Monica Araya, of Costa Rica – “In our country, nearly 100% of our electricity generation comes from renewables,”       Since November 2016 we have run the Modern Mint office on renewable energy. We should have done it sooner….

This short, 4 minute film is about Yui and Takaharu Tezuka – a Japanese family who live in one room. Well worth a watch! Not only does it suggest that this type of communal living prepares you better for living with other people, learning to get along, but it showcases some fun ideas for how to make create separate areas within a room We also love how they have captured the light – the main window looks North, so they have ‘stepped’ the roof down on the South side and placed windows there, which allows in more light and more heat, while …

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