Green Design Competitions

LAST CHANCE to enter our Green Halloween Costume Contest!

LAST CHANCE to enter our Green Halloween Costume Contest!

LAST DAY TO ENTER OUR HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST! The fun and frenzy of Halloween are officially over, but you still have one LAST CHANCE to submit your creative homemade costumes in our Green Halloween

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REMINDER: Don’t Forget to Enter Our Green Halloween Costume Contest!

REMINDER: Don’t Forget to Enter Our Green Halloween Costume Contest!

CALLING ALL HOMEMADE HALLOWEEN COSTUME CRAFTERS! The deadline for our annual Green Halloween Costume Photo Contest is approaching so fast that it's scary! We've gotten some awesome submissions so far,

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ANNOUNCING: Our Annual Green Halloween Costume Contest!

ANNOUNCING: Our Annual Green Halloween Costume Contest!

CALLING ALL CREATIVE COSTUMERS! It's that time of year again when all the boys and ghouls come out to play - Halloween!!! With the big night swiftly approaching and not much time on your hands, it may be

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SOLAR DECATHLON 2009: Cornell Silo House

SOLAR DECATHLON 2009: Cornell Silo House

Things really heated up this past few days as we inched closer to finding out who the winner of this year's Solar Decathlon would be, and in the end Team Germany's surPLUShouse stole the show. We were sad

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Win the “Ecouterre”: A $170 Limited-Edition Recycled Chain Necklace!

Win the “Ecouterre”: A $170 Limited-Edition Recycled Chain Necklace!

Want to win this dazzling $170 recycled vintage chain necklace? We're giving it away to one lucky reader on Ecouterre to celebrate the official launch of our dedicated eco-fashion website, Ecouterre! We

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INTERVIEW: Civil Twilight on their Sustainable Approach to Design

INTERVIEW: Civil Twilight on their Sustainable Approach to Design

Civil Twilight's lunar-resonant streetlighting is a project that won the top honor from Metropolis Magazine's Next Generation contest in 2007. But we were pleased (but not surprised) to discover that

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urbanSHED: Design a Better Sidewalk Shed and Win $10,000!

urbanSHED: Design a Better Sidewalk Shed and Win $10,000!

Heads up all engineers, architects, and designers in NYC! The urbanSHED design competition is looking for a better sidewalk shed, and they're giving away $25,000 in prizes plus the chance to construct the

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Michael Jackson Lives On In Blinged Out Wind-Powered Memorial

Michael Jackson Lives On In Blinged Out Wind-Powered Memorial

Michael Jackson will live on forever in our hearts through his music, but he also deserves a thriller of a memorial fit for a true king! In the wake of his untimely death, our friends at Bustler held a

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Enter the CLEAR VILLAGE Competition and Win €2,500!

Enter the CLEAR VILLAGE Competition and Win €2,500!

Image by Georg Parthen courtesy of HeyHeyShot Ever dreamed of designing your own eco village? Well, here's your chance to be an eco-visionary and maybe even win €2,500 in the process! The CLEAR

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Competition Offers $250,000 to Design Pedal-Powered Helicopter

Competition Offers $250,000 to Design Pedal-Powered Helicopter

Who knew that pedal-powered flight would have such a sudden resurgence in popularity? Recently we looked at a Dutch teenager who is making waves with his pedal-powered plane made out of balsa wood and

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LAST CHANCE to Win A Solar Bag in our Back-to-School Contest!

LAST CHANCE to Win A Solar Bag in our Back-to-School Contest!

THE DEADLINE FOR OUR AWESOME BACK TO SCHOOL GIVEAWAY IS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT! If you've been reading Inhabitat the past couple weeks, hopefully by now you've read about our fabulous back-to-school

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2009 Index: Awards Showcase Designs that Improve Life

2009 Index: Awards Showcase Designs that Improve Life

Danish design consultancy Index: recently announced the winners of the 2009 Index:Award, an international design competition that highlights the scale of the problems we face globally, while rewarding

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BACK TO SCHOOL CONTEST: Win a $500 Solar Bookbag Prize Pack!

BACK TO SCHOOL CONTEST: Win a $500 Solar Bookbag Prize Pack!

Green your back-to-school regime with our eco-friendly giveaway contest! It's almost that time of year again when leaves start falling and students everywhere get ready to go back to school. To get into

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BACK TO SCHOOL CONTEST: Win An Awesome Solar Book Bag!

BACK TO SCHOOL CONTEST: Win An Awesome Solar Book Bag!

Get ready for school with our back-to-school green giveaway contest! Fall is just around the corner, and students everywhere are getting ready to go back to school. To get into the autumnal school

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Showcase Your Front Lawn Veggie Garden in Edible Estates

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

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BACK TO SCHOOL CONTEST: Win An Awesome Solar Book Bag!

BACK TO SCHOOL CONTEST: Win An Awesome Solar Book Bag!

Get ready for school with our back-to-school green giveaway contest! Fall is just around the corner, and students everywhere are getting ready to go back to school. To get into the autumnal school

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There’s Still Time to Win an Eco-Friendly Cobi Office Chair!

There’s Still Time to Win an Eco-Friendly Cobi Office Chair!

Now that I've spent a bit of time with my Cobi chair, I feel it's only fair that I tell you all a little about my experience. Long story short, I love it. It's improved my working posture, comfort, and

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PROJECT GREENSEARCH: Be America’s Next Green Supermodel!

PROJECT GREENSEARCH: Be America’s Next Green Supermodel!

CALLING ALL GREEN MODELS AND WANNABE MODELS “You should be a model.” If anyone has ever said that to you, this could be your chance to actually pursue the dream! The brainchild of green style

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Big Box Agriculture Transforms Grocers Into Growers

Big Box Agriculture Transforms Grocers Into Growers

Results are in for the ReBurbia competition to re-envision the suburbs, and we're thrilled to count Forrest Fulton among the top three winners for his Big Box Agriculture proposal! This creative and

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Urban Sprawl Repair Kit Offers Simple Plans to Fix Suburbia

Urban Sprawl Repair Kit Offers Simple Plans to Fix Suburbia

The suburban landscape consists largely of endless expanses of paved parking lots pocked with strip malls, gas stations, chain restaurants, and McMansions. Rather than razing these structures with the aim

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ANNOUNCING: The Winners of the ReBurbia Competition!

ANNOUNCING: The Winners of the ReBurbia Competition!

DRUMROLL PLEASE! After much heated debate and a dramatic week of online voting, we're thrilled to announce the winners of the Reburbia competition to redesign the suburbs! We received hundreds of

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ReBurbia Favorite Notable Mentions

ReBurbia Favorite Notable Mentions

With voting on our top 20 ReBurbia finalists set to close in less than 8 hours, we'd like to take a moment to pause and consider some of incredible submissions that didn't quite make the list. Greening

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LAST DAY TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE REBURBIA DESIGN!

LAST DAY TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE REBURBIA DESIGN!

Reburbia voting closes tonight at midnight! Just in case you haven't already heard about our Reburbia competition to re-design the suburbs, this is your LAST CHANCE to voice your opinion because voting

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Links Roundup of the Week: Reburbia, Reburbia, Reburbia!

Links Roundup of the Week: Reburbia, Reburbia, Reburbia!

Suburban sprawl has become the problem of our generation -- that's why we partnered with Dwell to sponsor, Reburbia, a design competition to re-imagine the suburb. We posted the finalists earlier this

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VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE REBURBIA ENTRY TODAY!

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE REBURBIA ENTRY TODAY!

In July, we partnered with Dwell to launch Reburbia, a competition to imagine how the suburbs could be re-structured to be more sustainable. Asking participants to create  five images to portray their

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Futuristic Designs Protect SF Bay From Rising Tides

Futuristic Designs Protect SF Bay From Rising Tides

In the San Francisco Bay, water levels may rise 55 inches over the next 100 years. That doesn't sound like much initially, but around the coastline, that makes a huge impact. High water levels are a

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ENTREPRENEURBIA: Rezoning the suburbs for a sustainable future

ENTREPRENEURBIA: Rezoning the suburbs for a sustainable future

They say that 'a picture is worth a thousand words', and nowhere is this more true than in the world of design. Oftentimes it doesn't matter how brilliant an idea is, if it can't be visualized

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VOTE IN THE REBURBIA COMPETITION – TODAY!

VOTE IN THE REBURBIA COMPETITION – TODAY!

If you've been perusing Inhabitat lately, you hopefully know about our fabulous Reburbia Design Competition - the contest we’ve been running to come up with some radical new ideas as to how turn the

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Inter Estates: Freeways Turned Cash Making Farm Neighborhoods

Inter Estates: Freeways Turned Cash Making Farm Neighborhoods

What if we could take our huge chunks of boring, bland freeway shoulder and turn them into energy, food and big bucks? That's what this finalist in our Reburbia Competition to redesign the suburbs

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Mobile Mecha-Towers Take Suburbia by Storm

Mobile Mecha-Towers Take Suburbia by Storm

While several of the finalists in our ReBurbia design competition tended towards the surreal, a few futuristic entries took an approach that was downright dystopian. In Radial Erect-Urbia Michael Hughes

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