In today’s edition of Squirrel News, the Maldives are building the world’s first floating city, communities in Philly plant fruit trees to help alleviate food insecurity, and in London, art makes hospital visits less painful.
When cities plant trees, why not make them fruit trees?
In Philadelphia, one in six households is food insecure. In order to tackle the problem, communities are planting fruit trees in poor neighbourhoods, adding one more advantage to the other multiple benefits trees provide.
Venezuelans create affordable electric vehicles as necessity drives ingenuity
Entrepreneurs in the oil-producing state are now plagued by shortages of recycled parts from golf carts and motorcycles to make battery- and solar-powered cars.
University of California, Berkeley gives back cultural artifacts to Indigenous tribes
The exhibition at Berkeley of artifacts stolen from Natives’ graves has been a source of conflict.
Following the controversy, the University has decided to repatriate many of the objects taken.
Muyiwa Oki, first black president of RIBA, reveals his shakeup plans
Elderly white men in bow ties have tended to run the very grand and possibly even stuffy Royal Institute of British Architects. Muyiwa Oki, its youngest boss ever at 31, spells out his vision for unions, the climate crisis, and island-buying oligarchs.
‘Everyone seemed at ease’: how art is making hospital visits less painful
Some of life’s hardest moments are spent in hospital, but two organisations are working to ease that with ingenious designs. Mina Holland explains how art has been a lifeline.
