Here’s a great way to get yourself a free house. Pose as an artist, say you want to create a gallery/meeting space that’s environmentally sound and get your local community to donate all their scrap wood and raw materials that would otherwise end up lying in a skip somewhere.
Now that’s not entirely what German designers [...]

Queuing to buy milk for my breakfast the other morning I found myself scanning the headlines and spotted a number of stories bemoaning the plans for fortnightly rubbish collections (again).
Treading my way home between the piles of festering rubbish and black sacks torn to shreds by seagulls I started to wonder why my mouth-and-no-trousers council [...]