The average U.S. family spends $1,900 a year on the energy bills. By using less energy to keep your home comfortable, you not only spend less money, you also cause fewer greenhouse gases to enter the

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If you are looking to see a good thriller this summer, forget about The Omen remake, and go see An Inconvenient Truth.

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Dutch designer Damian O’Sullivan, has found a way to bring sunlight indoors with his Solar Lampion. The ingenuous lamp is composed of 36 standard-sized solar cells that collect sunlight during the

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Incandescent lighting is so taken-for-granted in contemporary culture that most of us have no idea how much energy we use when we flip a light switch. Boiler Design Office wants to change this with their

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Brooklyn-based Pratt seems to be the school of choice for New York designers, and is currently producing some of the most cutting-edge industrial design in the country, when it comes to new technology and

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Here’s a great spring project to get you ready for those up-coming summer barbeques: grow your own lawn furniture with the Terra Grass Armchair kit. All you need to do is assemble a cardboard frame,

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Imagine a house without a single light fixture – but instead walls, ceilings, furnishings, and accessories all sources of light. Thanks to research at Princeton University and the University of

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Although slightly larger than most objects we feature on Inhabitat, this sensual skyscraper located west of Toronto was just too beautiful to pass up. Developers in Mississauga, Canada recently announced

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We are really excited about the potential of Zenkaya, a great new prefab out of South Africa that has been making the rounds lately. Based on the idea of providing “a headache free process with

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Anyone who reads Inhabitat regularly will know that we are suckers for furniture with foliage. Julian Lwin has caught our attention before with his fabulously green, wheatgrass-studded Galapagos Coffee

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Almost a year ago today, we raved about kirei, an eco-friendly material which we discovered in Iannone:Sanderson’s gorgeous kirei Mod Coffee Table. This past weekend at ICFF, we were treated to

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Now that New York Design week is officially over, we are finally getting a chance to breathe and start writing non-ICFF posts again. For those of you who are tired of hearing about furniture – this

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Reclaimed wood furniture is usually so predictable: large beams or slabs of driftwood turned into benches and stools. Thats why Brent Comber’s unique reclaimed wood furniture – made from

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This weekend HauteGREEN opened with a flourish. The space looked beautiful, full of innovative and thoughtful explorations of sustainable design for the home, including a brand new piece from Scrapile,

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Core77 11th Anniversary party Lots and lots of party pics from HauteGREEN, Future Perfect and Core77. Click here to see more

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Danish designer, Mads Hagstrom, director of The FLOWInstitute at Dansk Design Centre, brought a show-stopping installation to ICFF. FlowMarket sits in the middle of the exhibit floor, enclosed in a sheer

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Go see the FLOW

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Sunday night we attended the Mobile Living event, which proved to be a smashing example of a well-conceived hybrid exhibition. The theme “mobile living” took a comprehensive view, including

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In the last few years, knitting and crocheting have made a real come-back. These are no longer old lady sports, and all kinds of type-A execs and supercool hipsters have knitting circles to prove it. When

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We are already feeling overwhelmed by the excessive amounts of good stuff on display everywhere this week, but we are not going to give up until we’ve looted and plundered all the best of Design

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We’ve recently become fans of Chicago-based Materious Design, ever since discovering their clever Cubby and innovative Wifi Umbrella. Now, today at the Haute Green exhibition in Brooklyn, we

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On display at the Mobile Living Conference this weekend will be a series of inflatable structures from UK-based company Inflate. Given how we gravitate towards a good bouncy air castle, we were thrilled

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We are a sucker for anything using Kirei board, so we were delighted last weekend at BKLYN Designs to discover the material in new form – in Object Interior’s lovely Coup Dresser. The Coup

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Did you ever have one of those lamps as a kid with a cut-out shade that cast silhouettes on the wall? Something about the combination of light and imagery could magically transport you to a more ethereal

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Be sure to tune into your local PBS station this week for Edens Lost and Found: How Ordinary Citizens are Restoring Our Great American Cities, a new four part PBS mini-series profiling sustainable

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Courtesy of Rob Elam Last September, we published a “How To” for making your own biodiesel. We had huge response (mostly positive, some critical). Since then, gas prices have continued to

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One of our first and most enduring design loves at Inhabitat is Scrapile. In the year since we first discovered them at BKLYN Designs 2005, they’ve come to epitomize sexy, cutting-edge sustainable

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Design week is almost upon us in New York, and the biggest show of the season is of course, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center. This year, ICFF is getting greened up by

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(above: new PoppyCotton pillow, Rhubarb Decor shelf and Scrapile side table) All of you savvy Inhabitat readers know that sustainable = sexy when it comes to design. However, we realize that there is

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If you’re not a little soggy already, you must have heard by now about the deluge of rain that has been soaking New England for the past week, producing the some of the worst flooding the region has

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