From a distance the M2 house looks like just another little rolling hill. Approach more closely and you find a modern, subtly camouflaged residence whose roof is covered in beautiful, easy to maintain sedum.

The home, located in creator Bjarke Ingels Group’s native Denmark, was designed to blend into its rural surroundings in a “symbiotic,” integrated fashion. One side of the residence features huge, light-infusing glass sections which provide abundant natural light to the living and kitchen areas.

Designed and created by Danish architectural design powerhouse, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) for the Danish builder M2 Homes.

More and more people these days are choosing eco-friendly and organically grown foods — instead of or in addition to — the conventionally grown food they’re accustomed to buying. Nowadays, even regular grocery stores stock organic food brands. However, just by buying a product whose label says “Organically Produced” doesn’t necessarily solve anything. Here are a few things you should consider when buying eco-friendly food products:

How to Read The Label on an Eco-Friendly Food Item

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines an organic food item as one that is grown without using pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, antibiotics, bioengineering, hormones and ionizing radiation. This goes for both vegetable and animal products. The company or farmer that produces the organic food must be inspected and certified by USDA to ensure that the organic standards and rules are followed. Farmers that produce organic foods are required to use renewable resources; this helps conserve the water and soil for future generations. It’s also required that any company that handles or processes an organic food item on its way to the store must also be certified organic.

• Check if your food item is labeled “100% Organic”, which means it’s been made 100% out of organic ingredients, or “Organic” which means that the food is at least 95% organic.
• If the label says “Made with organic ingredients”, you can safely assume that the food is comprised of 70% organic ingredients, but is not 100% organic … Buyer Beware. (more…)

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