UrbanBuds: Soiled Suitcases Grow Food

Gionata Gatto, an Italian designer based in the Netherlands, has soiled and seeded suitcases and such for gardening on the go. Designed as a graduation project, UrbanBuds enlivens luggage to grow up to 36

Hanging Bamboo Gardens Make Beautiful Biofilters

If you were at West Coast Green this past weekend you would have surely noticed the elegant bamboo structures along the waterfront surrounded by beautiful native landscaping. What you may not have

Bay Line: A High Line Park for San Francisco’s Bay Bridge

San Francisco's Bay Bridge is currently undergoing a massive renovation as an aging section of the East Bay span is replaced with a new one, and the old conduit has fired up architects' imaginations for

Green Roofs Are Changing the Way Architects Design Buildings

Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik, photo Luanne Lozier Green roofs are wonderful things; like a thick blanket, they keep roofs cool in summer and warm in winter. They have been around for

Vertical Farm Eco City is a Wind Powered Wonderland

Studio Tjep's Oogst 1000 Wonderland is a towering agricultural amusement park that makes farming fun by giving visitors the opportunity to take part in a self-sustaining vertical farm. The towering eco

Seed Orbs Capture Beauty of Blooming Bud

Capturing the usually short-lived moments of a blooming bud, environmental artist Richard Solomon's Seed Orbs encapsulate Goat's Beard seed heads in glass balls. As an artist, Solomon has worked with

MetaboliCity Aims to Grow Sustainable Food Systems

Combining methods for urban farming with design thinking, MetaboliCity is a design-research project by Loop.pH that explores how designers can help create models for sustainable urban food creation. Set

Researchers Create Electric Circuit That Runs On Tree Power

Trees provide us with oxygen, shade, timber, and...power? That's what researchers at the University of Washington proved recently when they ran a circuit off energy generated by a tree. The experiment was

Showcase Your Front Lawn Veggie Garden in Edible Estates

Head's up green thumbs and urban gardeners across the states! Do you have an extraordinary edible garden project that you're dying to share with the world? Well now's your chance because Fritz Haeg and

Brick Habitats: Mini-Gardens for Habitat Restoration

Imagine having flora and fauna living inside the bricks of your building! A snow-white style fantasy? Not according to the designers of 'Brick Habitats' - bricks that have a little pocket for plants to

Roll-Out Vegetable Mat Makes Gardening a Snap!

Looking to grow your own vegetable garden but afraid you don't have a green thumb? Chris Chapman's Roll-Out Veg Mat could be just the solution you're searching for. The corrugated cardboard mat is sowed

LEAF POWER: Artificial Glass Leaves Produce Energy via Transpiration

Everyone knows that trees combat climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide out of the air. Now, plant leaves are tackling global warming in another way -- by serving as models for a technology that

Lawnge Chairs: Grassy Green Park Lounges in the Netherlands

While most of us are delighted by the idea of bringing the outdoors in, we are equally excited by the concept of bringing the indoors outside! These “lawnge chairs” get the job done. Designed

The Nautilus – Giant Snail-Shaped Home Fit for a Family

The Nautilus, designer Javier Senosiain’s bizarre, snail-shaped dwelling, is a mind-bending union of artistic experimentation and simplified living. Inspired by the work of Gaudí and Frank Lloyd

Michel Bussien’s Growing Chair is Deep-Seated in Nature

More ironic than practical, Swiss designer Michel Bussien's Growing Chair evokes pertinent ideas for the 21st century: nature trapped within the confines of man, manicured at his whim, or a specimen

Living Walls from ELT Easy Green

Here at Inhabitat we are big botanical architecture fans, but we also love seeing ideas that stand to add an extra bit of foliage to our lives. So, if you are a fan of Patrick Blanc's Vertical Gardens or

Floating Farmacy Provides Plants and Herbs to Heal London

Traditional medicine may be the best choice for some ailments, but sometimes all we need is a little help from Mother Nature. Samantha Lee's Farmacy is a floating urban farm that grows medicinal plants

Window Farms: An experiment in urban agriculture

Gardening enthusiasts living in cities will certainly cheer for Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray’s Window Farms experiment. The artist-in-residence duo at Eyebeam have teamed up to develop a DIY system

Green Roofed Cooper Point House Blends Into Big Sur

Fading right into the Big Sur landscape, this three-bedroom house is nearly invisible when viewed from certain angles. And that's just how Mickey Muennig, the mastermind behind the project, wanted it. The

ALIVE STRUCTURES: Greening NYC Rooftops

While most people might see New York City as a densely developed, built-up city with little space for greenery, Brooklyn-based Alive Structures sees the opportunity to make open green space -- and has

First Gardens on the Moon by 2012!

Groundbreaking advancements in the realm of space engineering may soon see the moon sown with the first gardens to grow on the lunar surface. As part of the Google Lunar X Prize, Paragon Space Development

Tanzanian Hotel Inspired by Rock Formations

Not many people would be envious of you if you were living in a cave -- but they might be a little envious if you stayed in this hotel, located in Tanzania and designed by WOW Architects. The hotel is

The Flowing Gardens of the World Horticultural Expo

From the manicured forms of French estates to the sculptural gestures of Japanese gardens, the adjectives we use to describe a garden are often subject to the characteristics of the plants (or lack

MIO Debuts Line of Eco Products for Target!

We loved MIO's Flat Pack Origami table at first sight and couldn't wait to see what would come next from this Philly fave. Luckily for us, Brothers Isaac and Jaime Salm do not disappoint. Just in

Michelle Obama To Plant White House Edible Garden

Eleanor Roosevelt's World War II-era Victory Garden was a shining example to Americans that they could grow their own food. And now Michelle Obama is following in her footsteps, taking up the cause by

Soil Powered Lamp: A Fresh Take on “Dirty Energy”

Soil naturally contains energy conducive metals like zinc, copper and iron, and microbial fuel cells (sometimes referred to as an earth batteries) are capable of converting electrolytes in soil into

Sprouting Cards Blossom Into Wildflowers!

Wondering what to do with all those old greeting cards and thank you notes? Now you can stick them in the ground and sprout wildflowers with Botanical Paperworks plantable greeting cards.. We've written

ECO ART: Creative Duo Rescue Trees in London

Here at Inhabitat, we have a soft spot for all things green. But we have to make an exception for this rather colorful “Christmas tree” that took center stage on the ground floor reception at

Eco CNC Xmas Tree at Inhabitots

Every year it's a bit heartbreaking to see all those clear-cut christmas trees lining city streets, and evergreen plastic alternatives are hardly eco-friendly. Imagine our excitement when we ran across

Rent a Living Xmas Tree to Replant in San Francisco

San Francisco residents looking to deck their halls with green holiday decor will be excited to hear that for a limited time the SF Environment Department is teaming up with Friends of the Urban Forest to

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