Blogs & Ecology

What is footprint from an average persons housing requirements of a lifetime. National Geographic Human Footprint takes a look.

What would you do if your home was filled with bees?

It’s like this, but in their friggin’ walls! Image by Chas Redmond

Would you freak out, call the exterminator, run screaming from the building?

If you’re Helen and Jerry Stathasos, you do none of these things. You just live in a house filled with bees.

The Stathatos family has been coexisting with the bees for several years now in their Virginia Road home in Sacramento, CA. There are so many bees that the walls literally drip with honey, but they don’t usually mind.

Britain’s Prince Charles plans to build an eco-friendly home to spur the government towards greener housing policy, but his eco-friendly house design has now run into government regulation that says it’s not eco-friendly enough.