"Walking on overly hard floors creates energy that moves upward toward our muscles and tendons, causing them to vibrate," explains João Rui Ferreira, president of APCOR, the Portuguese Cork ...

Outside the door to one of the wine shops in our neighbourhood is a small inconspicuous box. Here you can put your cork stoppers for recycling. We do it. And many French people also, because France is ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Cassell Ferere founded PAGE magazine covering circularity in menswear. Portugal has been a place for fashion manufacturing for ...

For each kilogram of cork produced, the trees can capture 73 kg of CO2, according to Portugal's leading cork company. Portugal is the world’s leading producer of cork. In 2023, cork exports achieved a ...

Cork is everywhere in design, and yet it's almost always decorative. A tile floor. A pin board. A wine stopper. Copenhagen-based furniture designer Chiara Verde looked at that assumption and quietly ...

If you still believe Irish food is solely concerned with potatoes and porter, then it is fitting your re-orientation program should begin in Cork, long dubbed the “food capital of Ireland.” With one ...

A person sees many countries on a European tour—and I don’t necessarily mean those divided by political boundaries and languages. I mean truffle country, sweet wine country, bear country, bike country ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most ofus toss the cork in the trash after we finish a bottle of wine. After all, who needs it? But it turns out these bottle ...

It's all natural, renewable, healthy and has zero embodied carbon. What's not to love? When speaking recently at a Passivhaus conference in Aveiro, Portugal, I mentioned one of my favourite subjects, ...

There is nothing new about using cork as an insulating material; Fridtjof Nansen lined the Fram with a foot thick layer of the stuff, and almost got to the North Pole in it, while Amundsen used the ...

Towards the end of 1990, a teenage Roy Keane returned to the north side of Cork and went into a pub dressed in a leather jacket. He had not long signed for Nottingham Forest and he was doing well. He ...

A FEW WEEKS AGO I was sitting on a suburban commuter train bound for New York when a group of men who looked to be in their late 30s entered the car. They were talking about the best place to find a ...