Escape to the country: how Covid is driving an exodus from Britain’s cities | World news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/26/escape-country-covid-exodus-britain-cities-pandemic-urban-green-space

Paths of desire: lockdown has lent a new twist to the trails we leave behind

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/14/paths-of-desire-lockdown-has-lent-a-new-twist-to-the-unofficial-trails-we-carve?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

How to Navigate the Age of the Smart Home

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/smarter-living/smart-home.html?referringSource=articleShare

Netherlands-based startup company behind eco-friendly fungi mycelium casket

[Thanks for the tip Jean-Francois Burguet – Italy!]

Source: First funeral held using ‘living coffin’ made of mushroom fibre | Society | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/sep/20/private-rents-plunge-covid-19-decimates-lettings-market-workplace-space-gardens

The Economist | Amateurs to the rescue

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/09/19/politicians-should-take-citizens-assemblies-seriously?frsc=dg%7Ce

Building Public Places for a Covid World

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/arts/design/architecture-urban-planning-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare

The pandemic has caused a spike in restaurant takeout containers — and the environmental damage that comes with them.

Source: All my takeout has delivered a mountain of trash. So I asked experts how to minimize it. – The Washington Post

The promise – and the peril – of the pandemic’s WFH revolution

https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/work-schmerk-tantalising-or-traumatic-zooming-in-on-our-wfh-future-20200806-p55j8e.html
https://www.theage.com.au/business/workplace/work-schmerk-tantalising-or-traumatic-zooming-in-on-our-wfh-future-20200806-p55j8e.html