Kongō Gumi workers in early 20th century
Japan’s Kongō Gumi has been building Buddhist temples for 14 centuries. Is that evidence of a sustainable business?
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Montreal bicycle map from 1897
From Montreal, evidence of the future of mobility from its forgotten, pre-oil past: a bicycle map from 1897.
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Mars cannot sustain life
With no evidence that humans can persist outside of our host biosphere, why so much naïve optimism around colonizing space?
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Aspirations for the security of a sustainable future are not new. Countless expressions have come and gone, often without due appreciation by society at large. We shed light on these lost artefacts of sustainability with the hope that they may yet revive the hopeful outcomes that they inferred. Artefacts.earth is not a wistful longing for a forgotten…
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