Ariel Sharon Park in Israel is planned to be a stunning ecological retreat in the middle of a densely populated urban area. The site was once an enormous landfill, but today it is being turned into the largest urban park to be built anywhere in the world in the last century. One of the centerpieces of this oasis will be the ECOntainer Bridge, a 160-meter-long bridge made of repurposed shipping containers.
via Recycled Cargo Container Bridge Spans Environmental Gap | WebUrbanist.
Despite the cold and snow, some signs of spring are starting to break through in Colorado. The public library in the small town of Basalt is trying an experiment: In addition to borrowing books, residents can now check out seeds.
via How To Save A Public Library: Make It A Seed Bank : NPR.
Please keep your flipping cats indoors.  In a report that scaled up local surveys and pilot studies to national dimensions, scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that domestic cats in the United States — both the pet Fluffies that spend part of the day outdoors and the unnamed strays and ferals that never leave it — kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway rat.
A domestic cat with a European rabbit. Domestic and feral cats are significant predators of a wide range of prey species, including rabbits. Photograph by James Morton.
via That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think – NYTimes.com.
The Millennial generation is big. In fact, they’re now the largest generation on earth at 1.8 billion globally. But bigger than their size may be their influence over other generations… or so they think, at least. Indeed, 74% percent of them believe they have a direct influence over what their peers and those in other generations buy.
Foodie culture today seems loved and scorned in equal parts. Why? Feinschmeckers and gourmands have existed forever, yet food is suddenly a topic in culture at large. “Food has moved from physical necessity to the epicenter of constant attention through media, public opinion, and status,†write the researchers behind Food Thinking, a study of emerging food culture in European countries. “Suddenly, everything is about food!â€
