Use cork as planters after hollowing out larger pieces or placing smaller ones as bases for potted plants. Cork is porous, ...

But if you’re making cork composite materials, the first and the second harvest are enough. Either way, the cork eventually grows back, and a cork oak tree can be stripped more than 15 times ...

Cork, known for such low-tech applications as wine bottle stoppers and bulletin boards, now shows promise as the core material in composites used in high-tech automotive, aircraft and energy ...

When we start to find plastics not just in our oceans but in our bloodstreams, we have to agree enough is enough. American architect David Rockwell has certainly had enough, but rather than just ...

It didn't win the Stirling Prize, but cleans up on all the sustainability awards. I have called cork the perfect building material: completely natural, insulating, renewable, healthy ...

York, the outer bark of the cork oak tree, is a wonderful material. More than half of the world’s cork comes from Portugal, where cork is harvested from a tree about every 10 years. Many cork ...

Contaminar used the material on Cork Hill House, a 650-square-meter, or 7,000-square-foot, home in Leira that was designed to blend into the landscape. “It was the first time that we worked with ...

Q: I have a problem with flooring. I bought a condo built in 1979 with concrete floors. I want the floor to be easy as I have a bad back and walking on concrete is not the best thing for me.