LAST CHANCE TO OWN YOUR OWN LIGHT BULB VASE! If you're like us and fell in love with the adorable Potus plant pot made from an old recycled light bulb, why not take this opportunity to add it to your
If you've ever ridden your bike on city streets, you've surely experienced the desire to inflict some pain on cars and their rather absent-minded — or plain vicious — drivers. Well, now you
Our ElasticShelf auction ends tomorrow - bid now! What city dweller isn’t crying out for more storage space these days? Well, forget about those boring stacked shelves, and display your books and
Our Chop Flops auction ends tomorrow - bid now! There’s nothing better than slipping your tired toes into a comfy pair of flip-flops, and this savvy creation by designer Joseph Palmer takes this
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
Out with the incandescent and in with the energy-efficient! With incandescent bulbs getting banned and generally kicked to the curb all around the globe, it raises the issue of what to do with all of
Martha and the Vandellas were on the right track — heatwaves can definitely tear you apart. The current temperature in NYC has our “heads in a haze“, and being as energy conscious as we
This is Dave, and as you can tell, he is pretty proud of his latest invention. It's a toilet cart that he made himself out of two recycled toilets, a couple of water coolers, six rolls of toilet paper,
Hibiki Kono had a dream -- he wanted to be like his hero, Spiderman. Most little kids would have their parents buy them a costume that they could wear to school. Not Kono -- the 13 year-old set to work
Oh, the wonderful world of LEGOS - we've seen that they can build you just about anything including a city! Well, a team of LEGO enthusiasts just put the finishing touches on their Monster Chess set. It
Pining for some new accessories this summer? Well, good news! One of our favorite eco-designers, Tara St. James, has just given us the lowdown on how to make her eye-catching and funky Zipper Bracelet!
These gorgeous lamps may look as if they’ve been excavated from ancient crystal caves, but they are in fact the product of an imaginative assemblage of recycled and eco-friendly materials. Created by a
The MIT Media Lab never ceases to amaze us - its latest invention is from Natan Linder, and at first glance could be taken as a quirky looking desktop lamp. Oh, but LuminAR is so much more than a light
The news media has been snapping photos of the destruction that the oil spill is causing as it floats toward shore, but recently the government and BP have been restricting aerial photographs of the spill
I wrote yesterday that our love of Legos may be the strongest proof of our innate desire to build stuff. Here's an unbelievable tidbit of evidence in support of that theory: YouTube user horseattack made
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kids grow like weeds and it seems like they get too big for their desks and chairs in just a blink of the eye! That’s why we are grateful that Japanese furniture designers, Sankei Co., unveiled their
Prison tattoos are notorious forms of self-expression, and these days inmates seem to be getting pretty crafty with their skin art. A DIY tattoo gun was recently confiscated from a prisoner in the UK --
Call it Survivor: Designer's Edition or Project Eco-Design, but we've got one reality TV inspired challenge for you: What could you build with just some cotton rope and a pile of wood blocks? An
Inhabitat favorite EcoSystems has just provided us with a sneak-peek of a brand new design they'll be unveiling at BKLYN Designs 2010 -- the Snug-It bed! The bed is based on their innovative connector
Eco-friendly consultants are sure to turn green with envy when they see Andrea Romani’s brilliant Ecological Business Card design. The concept consists of a simple stamp that can be used to print
There really is nothing like the fresh scent of newly washed laundry, so it's too bad that some of the products we use to get our clothes clean are downright scary. Many detergents are petroleum-based and
A vertical garden is one of the most eye-catching ways to decorate an empty wall, but how do you move beyond crawling ivy for a more colorful and luscious canvas? After receiving hundreds of emails for
If your living room needs a little touch of plant life and you've got anything but a green thumb, then these moss tables just may be the thing for you. From home furniture company Ayodhyatra, the Secret
