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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had A Floating, Co2-Absorbing Biosphere

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(via) I’d love to see a few of these marine biosphere farms bobbing around and lowering carbon dioxide levels off our coastline. The so-called Bloom – designed by French firm Sitbon Architectes – would be anchored to the seabed by a series of cables. Its interior gardens are designed to cultivate oxygen-producing phytoplankton. The people living and working aboard would also be able to grow their own food thanks to an advanced filtration system that turns ocean water into fresh water. The floaters would also be able to warn us of incoming tsunamis. Plus they look pretty sweet…

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It was Included on ‘The Wasted “World” Tour’

Copenhagen-based food waste initiative, Eat Wasted, is currently on the road, working with a bunch of cool chefs to feed folks their up-cycled “Bread Waste Pasta” at pop-ups and food festivals in cities around Europe and North America (but not Vancouver?!)

Vancouver (and the World) Would be Cooler If Our Housing Crisis Was Solved Via Video Games

There is nothing special about Vancouver's lack of affordable housing...but what is special about Dublin, Ireland’s housing crisis, is that it's the catalyst and subject matter of a new 16-bit "anti-landlordist" video game, called Mega Dreoilín.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If We Had More Safe Indoor Spaces for Skateboarding

Its vaulted ceilings may have once carried the tenors and altos of Catholic choirboys, but nowadays the acoustics of the abandoned St. Liborius Church have been repurposed to carry the screeches and echoes characteristic of a DIY Skatepark. We think Vancouver would be cooler if we had an all-inclusive indoor community skatepark of our own...

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had a Massive Floating Housing Project at the Port

Imagine a colourful, mixed-used, housing complex like Amsterdam's Silodam floating at the foot of Victoria Drive.