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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had Terraformed Grass Armchairs In Its Parks

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(via) Lying down in the summer grass is one of those things that doesn’t cost a dime and yet we value it to a depth we can’t even see. Sitting in the grass is the next best thing, so we think Italian design collective Nucleo is really on to something cool with its Terra chair. It begins with a basic, easy-to-right cardboard frame. It’s then filled with soil and seeded, given a water dose and left to its natural devices. The result? A grass armchair. The project has only just launched its fundraising campaign on Kickstarter, and we’re hoping the Vancouver Parks Board takes note.

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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.