Green Design Competitions

Enter The Recycled Denim Challenge to Win $200 to the Gap!

Enter The Recycled Denim Challenge to Win $200 to the Gap!

If you’re into turning worn-out things into hot new wearable creations, then we’ve got a challenge for you! Our eco fashion design site Ecouterre and GAP 1969 Stream have teamed up to find the most

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Enter The Recycled Denim Challenge to Win $200 at Gap!

Enter The Recycled Denim Challenge to Win $200 at Gap!

ARE YOU A DIY DENIM JEANIUS? If you've got a knack for turning tired old denim into haute new creations - we want to hear from you! Our eco fashion design site Ecouterre and GAP 1969 Stream have teamed

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Enter The Recycled Denim Challenge to Win a $200 Gap Gift Card!

Enter The Recycled Denim Challenge to Win a $200 Gap Gift Card!

CALLING ALL ECO DESIGNERS AND CRAFTY DENIM DIY-ERS! Have you reincarnated a favorite pair of old jeans into a heavenly new creation? Well, our eco fashion design site Ecouterre and GAP 1969 Stream are

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Life Preserver-Launching Bazooka Wins James Dyson Award

Life Preserver-Launching Bazooka Wins James Dyson Award

If you see a giant orange bazooka gun firing bullets into the ocean, don't panic; it may just be the Longreach Buoyancy Deployment System, a bazooka that shoots Life Rings (water-activated buoyancy

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Enter the Next Generation Zero-Impact Design Challenge, Win $10K!

Enter the Next Generation Zero-Impact Design Challenge, Win $10K!

Metropolis magazine is challenging designers to bring a typical U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) building in downtown L.A. to Zero in their annual design competition, Next Generation 2011: Get

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Enter the 10 Square Micro Building Design Competition!

Enter the 10 Square Micro Building Design Competition!

How much space do we really need? In an era of ballooning house sizes and constricting rental markets, it can sometimes be difficult to envision opportunities for change or innovation. Enter 10 square - a

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Full Circle is a Cute Big-Wheeled Folding Bike Sans Chain

Full Circle is a Cute Big-Wheeled Folding Bike Sans Chain

For all you folding bike enthusiasts out there - the Full Circle, an entry in Seoul Cycle Design Competition, may make your city commute easier and more stylish. Unlike most folding bikes, this one —

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LAST CHANCE to Score a $150 Worth of Green School Supplies!

LAST CHANCE to Score a $150 Worth of Green School Supplies!

Last chance to win our $150 back-to-school giveaway! If you’re a struggling student strapped for cash, going back to school after a relaxing summer is hardly something to look forward to. So to help

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GIVEAWAY: Win a Back to School Backpack + School Supplies!

GIVEAWAY: Win a Back to School Backpack + School Supplies!

It’s almost time to head back to school, and if you’ve got a pint-sized person gearing up to hit the coloring books, then you’ve gotta enter our latest giveaway! To help pump up the excitement of

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GIVEAWAY: Win a Back to School Backpack + School Supplies!

GIVEAWAY: Win a Back to School Backpack + School Supplies!

Will you soon be sending your tot off to school for the first time? Apart from the separation anxiety you're bound to feel when you leave your little one in front of the schoolhouse, getting all the right

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Beautiful Recycled Soda Bottle Lamps Up for Auction on eBay!

Beautiful Recycled Soda Bottle Lamps Up for Auction on eBay!

Transform your living space with this dazzling Recycled Soda-Bottle Lamp designed by Sarah Turner. A stunning piece created with intricate cuts and careful assemblage, Sarah took some unwanted plastic

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Inhabitat’s Spring Greening Contest Winners on Sale!!!

Inhabitat’s Spring Greening Contest Winners on Sale!!!

Sarah Turner's Recycled Soda Bottle Lamps: Hanging White Soda Bottle Pendant starting at $675 Green and Blue Soda Bottle Table Lights starting at $280 Sarah Turner turns various plastic soda bottles

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Niels Bohr Science Park Laced with Light Flooded Vertical Green Atriums

Niels Bohr Science Park Laced with Light Flooded Vertical Green Atriums

Christensen & Co + Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects recently nabbed first prize in a competition to design the new Niels Bohr Science Park for the University of Copenhagen. Their winning proposal was

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LAST CHANCE: Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth $549)!

LAST CHANCE: Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth $549)!

Today is your last chance to win an iPad and DODOcase! So far we've received hundreds of impressive, inspiring and amusing responses from Inhabitants all over the world hoping to get their hands on

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Virginia Tech Lumenhaus Wins the 2010 Solar Decathlon!

Virginia Tech Lumenhaus Wins the 2010 Solar Decathlon!

The homes were packed all week with visitors who gazed at the unusually shaped Fablab house, doted over the cozy interior of the  Luukku House, and reveled over the superior craftsmanship of the Bambu

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GIVEAWAY: Win a Popomomo Hemp/Organic-Cotton Tunic (Worth $72!)

GIVEAWAY: Win a Popomomo Hemp/Organic-Cotton Tunic (Worth $72!)

If you weren’t able to indulge yourself with a little shopping spree this summer, then you've got to enter our latest fabulous and fashionable giveaway! We’ve teamed up with Amy DuFault, fashion

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The LOW3 House Brings Affordable Sustainability to the Solar Decathlon

The LOW3 House Brings Affordable Sustainability to the Solar Decathlon

The LOW3 combines passive solar architecture with bioclimatic optimization to minimize the house's energy demand. The team chose to use building integrated solar panels (BIPVs) on the roof and sides of

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Re:Focus Teaches an Old House New Tricks at the Solar Decathlon

Re:Focus Teaches an Old House New Tricks at the Solar Decathlon

The entire house is panelized to allow it to be flat packed and assembled around 7 square “ribs”. Because of the standardization of the system it can be configured in many different ways. Keeping cool

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GIVEAWAY: Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth $549)!

GIVEAWAY: Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth $549)!

WANT TO KICK OFF YOUR SUMMER WITH A NEW IPAD?! Summer has officially begun - can you picture yourself lounging at the pool or under a tree reading in style on a shiny new iPad? Well, we're giving away

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Lumenhaus Pulls Ahead at the Solar Decathlon With Smart Adaptable Design

Lumenhaus Pulls Ahead at the Solar Decathlon With Smart Adaptable Design

The home is modest is size. In fact, you can simply hook a semi to it and move it anywhere you want. But don’t be fooled -  they packed a lot of living into the Lumenhaus. The center of the home houses

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Ultra-Efficient Wuppertal House Blazes a Trail at Solar Decathlon

Ultra-Efficient Wuppertal House Blazes a Trail at Solar Decathlon

Team Wuppertal brought an intimate but expansive vision to the Solar Decathlon Europe this year. Their sun-powered house is flanked by solar walls, capped by a solar roof, and provides multiple spaces to

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Self-Sufficient Napevomo Solar Decathlon House

Self-Sufficient Napevomo Solar Decathlon House

As the European Solar Decathlon heats up in Madrid, the Napevomo House is turning heads for its very unique tack on design. The team, composed mainly of students from Arts et Métiers Paris Tech, has

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Space-Age Solar Urcomante House Debuts at Solar Decathalon Europe

Space-Age Solar Urcomante House Debuts at Solar Decathalon Europe

The Urcomante Team didn’t have to travel very far for the European Solar Decathlon this week in Madrid, Spain -- but their home’s design has taken sustainability a long way. The home's handsome

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Minimalistic Living Equia Home Keeps Its Cool at Solar Decathlon

Minimalistic Living Equia Home Keeps Its Cool at Solar Decathlon

The 2010 Solar Decathlon is well underway in Madrid, Spain and a team of three universities from Berlin has already been attracting a lot of attention with their clean-lined Living Equia Home. Designed to

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GIVEAWAY: Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth $549)!

GIVEAWAY: Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth $549)!

HAVE YOU ENTERED OUR IPAD GIVEAWAY YET?! You’ve seen it, you’ve coveted it, and now you could be the one lucky reader to win it! This summer should be all about saving trees, so what better way to

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GIVEAWAY: Win a Popomomo Hemp/Organic-Cotton Tunic (Worth $72!)

GIVEAWAY: Win a Popomomo Hemp/Organic-Cotton Tunic (Worth $72!)

Tunics are the perfect way to spend a summer stylishly and comfortably, so this week we’ve teamed up with newly launched eco-fashion boutique Shift to give away this striped little number to one lucky

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Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth $549)!

Win an iPad and Matching Eco Case (worth $549)!

HAVE YOU ENTERED OUR IPAD GIVEAWAY YET?! What better way to get some summer reading in than on a brand spanking new iPad?! We're giving one away along with a rad sketchbook-style bamboo DODOcase and

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Be Our Photographer at the Madrid Solar Decathlon!

Be Our Photographer at the Madrid Solar Decathlon!

HEY GREEN-BUILDING FANS! Who's headed to Madrid for the kickoff of the European Solar Decathlon tomorrow? Inhabitat is looking for a few on-the-scene reporters who are attending the decathlon and want to

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Inhabitat Announces 2010 Spring Greening Contest Winners!

Inhabitat Announces 2010 Spring Greening Contest Winners!

AND WE HAVE A WINNER! We’ve got our 2010 Spring Greening Contest winners and boy are they impressive! This year we invited all of our enterprising readers to see if they could breathe new life into old

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ANNOUNCING: The 2010 Inhabitat Spring Greening Contest Winners!

ANNOUNCING: The 2010 Inhabitat Spring Greening Contest Winners!

READER'S CHOICE GRAND PRIZE: Soda Bottle Lamps by Sarah Turner!!!Sarah Turner's lamps made from recycled soda bottles received a whopping 3674 votes from our readers, wowing you guys with their dazzling

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