It's all natural, renewable, healthy and has zero embodied carbon. What's not to love? When speaking recently at a Passivhaus conference in Aveiro, Portugal, I mentioned one of my favourite subjects, ...

Cork, the humble material used for centuries to seal bottles, is a unique product not only for the way it's grown, but also for the plethora of inventive uses people have found for it — which go far ...

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “cork”? Chances are, your mind wandered to that bottle of crisp Chardonnay sitting in your fridge, and for good reason. Capitalizing on cork’s porous ...

Cork is one of the most sustainable natural materials on the planet. It’s renewable, recyclable and biodegradable. The cork industry also directly contributes to healthy ecosystems and strong ...

Ever seen where corks for wine bottles come from? Neither had plenty of attendees at a Cal Poly event Tuesday, until a team from Portugal hacked off a slab of cork from a tree at the San Luis Obispo ...

When the earliest form of plastic, bakelite, was introduced to the public in 1907 it was marketed as “the material of a thousand uses.” Entirely synthetic, it was initially intended as a replacement ...

Cork, the material so long associated with bottle stops and bulletin boards, is finding increasingly widespread—and inventive—application in architecture. True, cork has long been used in buildings, ...

On Tuesday, Cal Poly students participated in an event that hasn’t occurred in over 30 years – harvesting the university’s cork oak trees. Cork Supply from Benecia, California was at Cal Poly to offer ...

Kimberley Mok is a former architect who has been covering architecture and the arts for Treehugger since 2007. Created by architect and Polysmith's founder Charles Wu as a residence for himself and ...