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A Hobbit House-Style Visitor Center Has Been Cleverly Built Into a Hill

A Danish visitor center has been cleverly built into a hill. The Skamlingsbanken in Kolding—which resembles a Hobbit house or even the setting for Teletubbies—is located in a place of cultural significance. Architects CEBRA explain the glacial landscape "holds a central place in Danish history, and over time it has been a setting for debates […]

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Danish Device Kills Air Pollution at Its Source

Scientists in Denmark have built a device designed to clean polluted air by accelerating natural atmospheric processes, helping to get rid of chemicals and smells. That Atmospheric Photochemical Accelerator developed at Copenhagen University underwent six years of trials working atop a stinky industrial plant.

Denmark's Near-Zero-Waste Wonder

The small city of Kalundborg, 64 miles west of Copenhagen, was the first municipality to have engineered a symbiotic relationship between all its industries so that the excess heat, water, waste and other resources leftover become feedstock for other industries and farms, creating a closed loop system.