Green Design Competitions

Help Audi Design Their Future Line of Electric Vehicles!

Help Audi Design Their Future Line of Electric Vehicles!

As car companies around the world scramble to energize the transportation market, Audi is taking to the streets to crowdsource designs for their next generation of cars. They've launched a public

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LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite SPRING GREENING Design!

LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite SPRING GREENING Design!

Only a FEW HOURS left to vote for your favorite design! If you still haven't checked out the incredible batch of finalists in our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest challenging our readers to

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1 Day Left to Vote for Your Favorite Spring Greening Design!

1 Day Left to Vote for Your Favorite Spring Greening Design!

Vote for your Favorite Spring Greening Design TODAY! Heads up green design fans! There's just one day of voting left before we crown the grand prize winner of this year's Spring Greening DIY Design

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National Geographic Magazines Turned Into a Bookshelf

National Geographic Magazines Turned Into a Bookshelf

Sean Miller's brilliant National Geographic bookshelf started out as a cluttered stack of magazines in his living room. One of 23 finalists in our Spring Greening Contest, the design is made from 80

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Stunning Chandelier Made from Recycled Plastic Hangers

Stunning Chandelier Made from Recycled Plastic Hangers

Taking some plastic hangers in one hand and a pendant light in another, Luis Teixeira turned this unlikely combination of materials into an incredible crystalline masterpiece. But it doesn’t stop there

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A Film Lampshade that Turns Old Negatives into Positives

A Film Lampshade that Turns Old Negatives into Positives

Life is light, so what better way to express that notion than with a lampshade made from old film stills of your most beloved moments. One of our fabulous Spring Greening finalists where we challenged

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FAREstudios’s Green Women’s Clinic Inspires Hope in West Africa

FAREstudios’s Green Women’s Clinic Inspires Hope in West Africa

Some of of the greatest social and environmental challenges are focused around the issue of reproductive rights. Italian-based FAREstudios created a brilliant architectural solution to the issue by

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Operation Hope Wins 100K Buckminster Fuller Challenge!

Operation Hope Wins 100K Buckminster Fuller Challenge!

We're thrilled to announce that The Buckminster Fuller Institute has just announced the winner of their third annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge, and this year's award goes to... Allan Savory for

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Spring Greening Deadline Extended – Vote for your Favorite DIY Design!

Spring Greening Deadline Extended – Vote for your Favorite DIY Design!

Spring Greening Contest voting deadline extended until this Friday! Our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest has been a tremendous success so far, with thousands of votes pouring in from around the

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Help Redesign BP’s ‘Green’ Logo and Win $200!

Help Redesign BP’s ‘Green’ Logo and Win $200!

We're getting kind of sick of saying this, but BP's latest latest attempt to stop oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico has failed -- yet again. The oil spill is quickly becoming the largest

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LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite Spring Greening Design!

LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite Spring Greening Design!

Vote for your Favorite Spring Greening Design TODAY! Heads up green design fans! Voting on our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest closes tonight at midnight, which makes this your LAST CHANCE to cast

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Potus Pots Turn Old Incandescent Light Bulbs into Lovely Planters

Potus Pots Turn Old Incandescent Light Bulbs into Lovely Planters

Light up your home the right way with energy-efficient CFL bulbs, then consider transforming your old incandescent bulbs into bud-growing vases like these amazing Potus Pots! Designed by Natalia Hojman

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The ‘Land Art Generator Initiative’ Combines Art with Energy Creation

The ‘Land Art Generator Initiative’ Combines Art with Energy Creation

The power of art is often described as being emotional, healing, ethereal, and inspirational. But in the context of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), art's power is as literal as that: power. An

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Zero-Energy Bio Refrigerator Cools Your Food With Future Gel

Zero-Energy Bio Refrigerator Cools Your Food With Future Gel

In a valiant effort to rethink the ubiquitous refrigerator -- which has seen few design changes since the invention of freon refrigerators in the 1930's -- Russian designer Yuriy Dmitriev has unveiled a

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LOTO Chandeliers Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles

LOTO Chandeliers Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles

These stunning sculptural chandeliers are far from what they appear to be. Modeled after the precious lotus flowers that emerge from murky swampland, Eugenio Menjivar’s LOTO Lamps transform oceans of

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VOTE for Your Favorite Inhabitat 2010 Spring Greening Finalists!

VOTE for Your Favorite Inhabitat 2010 Spring Greening Finalists!

Which is YOUR favorite Spring Green design? We received so many incredible entries into this year’s Spring Greening Design Competition that it was a challenging task to choose between them all. But

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Recycled Six-Pack Ring Chandeliers Turn Trash Into Lavish Lamps

Recycled Six-Pack Ring Chandeliers Turn Trash Into Lavish Lamps

Designer Bao Khang Luu‘s recycled six-pack ring chandeliers make drinking an entire six-pack (or 60) seem a lot less “trashy”. Luu’s gorgeous designs transform the annoying excess

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Ultra Mod Cone Light Made from Recycled Traffic Cones

Ultra Mod Cone Light Made from Recycled Traffic Cones

Whether you like to turn them into a makeshift megaphones or let them stick to their roles as traditional roadblocks, traffic cones carry a whole lot of opportunity for creativity. Another ingenious

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Recycled Bike Tubes Transformed Into Handy Shelving System

Recycled Bike Tubes Transformed Into Handy Shelving System

Bike tire tubes stretched between a couple of used furniture legs create this functional and handy shelving system, which also happens to look pretty sweet. For the lover of all things cycling, the

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Super Cool Pendant Light Made from Hundreds of Soda Tabs

Super Cool Pendant Light Made from Hundreds of Soda Tabs

We're not sure whether or not designer Mauricio Affonso actually drank the hundreds of pops (or sodas depending on where you're from) to get the materials to make this ultra mod pendant lamp but it's so

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VOTE NOW On Inhabitat’s 2010 Spring Greening Finalists!

VOTE NOW On Inhabitat’s 2010 Spring Greening Finalists!

Drumroll please!And now the moment that you've all been waiting for! After weeks of deliberation on an incredible array of creative reuse projects we're thrilled to announce the finalists of our 2010

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Enter the 2010 Seoul Cycle Design Competition!

Enter the 2010 Seoul Cycle Design Competition!

Do you have a brilliant idea for an eco-efficient bicycle that you're eager to show the world? Then enter it in the 2010 Seoul Cycle Design Competition for a shot at international recognition at the Seoul

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Win a Pair of Limited-Edition AliveShoes That Used to be Art (Worth $185!)

Win a Pair of Limited-Edition AliveShoes That Used to be Art (Worth $185!)

It’s a shoe filled Sunday for us here at Inhabitat. But with so many awesome kicks out there, we just can’t help it! This week were giving away a pair of limited edition AliveShoes to one lucky

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Check out the Incheon International Design Awards!

Check out the Incheon International Design Awards!

Heads up sustainable designers! The 2010 Incheon International Design Awards are giving out $43,000 in prizes to innovative sustainable solutions from designers with green hearts. They're looking for

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Win a Garnet-and-Diamond Necklace From Brilliant Earth (Worth $200!)

Win a Garnet-and-Diamond Necklace From Brilliant Earth (Worth $200!)

Happy Mother's Day! Diamonds are forever, and a mother's love is... If you're one of the many who can't wait to pamper and praise the one who gave you life this lovely Sunday, you'll definitely want

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LAST CHANCE to Enter Our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest!

LAST CHANCE to Enter Our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest!

The Deadline for Spring Greening Entries is TONIGHT at Midnight! Heads up DIY designers - our Spring Greening Competition closes tonight at midnight, which makes this your LAST CHANCE to submit your

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LAST CHANCE to Enter the SPRING GREENING COMPETITION!

LAST CHANCE to Enter the SPRING GREENING COMPETITION!

CALLING ALL CREATIVE CRAFTERS, DIY GURUS AND DESIGN STARS! Want to showcase your DIY and design skills to the world? If you've turned a piece of old trash into treasure, we want to peep it - so don't

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5 DAYS LEFT to Enter Our Spring Greening Design Competition!

5 DAYS LEFT to Enter Our Spring Greening Design Competition!

Calling all DIY crafters, green designers and spring cleaners! If you've taken a piece of old junk and turned it into an awe-inspiring new design, enter our Spring Greening Design Competition to show

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LAST CHANCE to Enter the SPRING GREENING DESIGN COMPETITION!

LAST CHANCE to Enter the SPRING GREENING DESIGN COMPETITION!

CALLING ALL DESIGNERS, CRAFTERS AND CREATIVE-TYPES! Have you created an awesome design out of old junk that you want to show the world? Want to get it in front of millions of readers on Inhabitat.com?

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Spring Greening Competition DEADLINE EXTENDED – Enter Now!

Spring Greening Competition DEADLINE EXTENDED – Enter Now!

Sping Greening competition deadline extended until Monday, May 3rd! Attention all DIY designers -- we're excited to announce that we're extending the deadline of our Spring Greening DIY Design

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