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The Hidden Sea and ReSea Project’s Clean Ocean Mission
Based on South Australia’s Limestone Coast, this wine company has a global vision
Global Music Vault’s Mission to Preserve Music for 10,000 Years
This archival project stores data on Microsoft's new, silica glass platters
Via npr.org
Five Landscape Architects Propose Plans to Save Washington, DC’s National Mall Tidal Basin
Due to rising sea levels and increased foot traffic (some 1.5 million people walk the area during the annual Cherry Blossom Festival alone), the Tidal Basin of Washington, DC’s National Mall continues …
Gold Tone Pearl Earrings
$330.00
All profits from the sale of these statement-making earrings go to Space For Giants, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and preserving the vast landscapes that elephants depend on for survival. These …
Via theguardian.com
The Perils of Moving the V&A’s Arsenic-Laced Hats
As 250,000 objects, 350,000 books and more from The Victoria and Albert Museum’s archive move from their current Blythe House storage to a new, purpose-built east London facility, dangers abound—including from the …
Via theguardian.com
2019 Plant Discoveries Include a Cancer-Fighting Fungus and More
102 plants and eight fungi were officially named by experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 2019 (roughly 2,000 new species are named worldwide every year). Among the roster of the …
Via nationalgeographic.com
The Chemist Preserving The Met’s Art Collection
“Conservation started by looking at how to treat objects that have been damaged… Now we’re thinking about how to set up displays and storage so that kind of damage doesn’t happen in …
Via fastcodesign.com
Energy-Rich Bee-Saving Paper
We are all aware of the decline of bees—and nobody knows exactly why. One potential factor could be the urbanization causes bees to travel further for pollen leading to death by exhaustion. …
The House of Harry Winston’s San Francisco Salon
An iconic Union Square space reimagined with splendor