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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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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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Customizable Paper Tube Eco-Furniture Grows with Your Child!

Customizable Paper Tube Eco-Furniture Grows with Your Child!

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

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British Prisoner Makes DIY Tattoo Gun from a Sony Playstation

British Prisoner Makes DIY Tattoo Gun from a Sony Playstation

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 --

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Bookshelf Built Simply from Waste Wood Blocks and Rope

Bookshelf Built Simply from Waste Wood Blocks and Rope

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

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BKLYN Designs Sneak Peek: Ecosystems Unveils Modular Snug-It Bed

BKLYN Designs Sneak Peek: Ecosystems Unveils Modular Snug-It Bed

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

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Brilliant Eco-Business Card Can Be Printed on Practically Anything

Brilliant Eco-Business Card Can Be Printed on Practically Anything

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

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Green Laundry 101: Choose Eco-Friendly Laundry Products

Green Laundry 101: Choose Eco-Friendly Laundry Products

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

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Flora Grubb Panels Let You Design Your Own Vertical Garden

Flora Grubb Panels Let You Design Your Own Vertical Garden

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

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Ayodhyatra’s Moss Tables Bring a Bit of Life to Any Room

Ayodhyatra’s Moss Tables Bring a Bit of Life to Any Room

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

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Artist Uses LEGO Blocks to Rebuild New York City

Artist Uses LEGO Blocks to Rebuild New York City

All the Legos used in the project were donated from the Lego Graffiti Styles Convention in Munich. Vormann trolled New York for missing bricks, crumbling facades and plaster cracks and filled them in with

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NYC Chef Daniel Angerer Serves Up Breast Milk Cheese

NYC Chef Daniel Angerer Serves Up Breast Milk Cheese

How adventurous would you say you are when it comes to trying new foods? If you’re the type of person who will put anything on your plate, we’ve got one culinary escapade we dare you to try. New York

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The OOoo Chair Uses Zero Materials

The OOoo Chair Uses Zero Materials

We love seeing new furniture ideas that implement used, discarded, eco-friendly and recycled materials, but it's not often that we find a chair that uses zero materials in construction. The OOoo

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DIY: Vibrant Curtains Upcycled from Old Film Slides

DIY: Vibrant Curtains Upcycled from Old Film Slides

Like the 35mm camera, film slides have gone to the wayside in favor of digital images and PowerPoint. So what is one to do with that box of slides collecting dust up in the attic? Turn them into a

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Build Your Own Treehouse in 6 Easy Steps

Build Your Own Treehouse in 6 Easy Steps

Building a treehouse for your kids is no longer a tall order with this flatpak DIY treehouse design from Dutch designers Rogier Martens and Sam van Veluw of Aandeboom. The Zelfbouwboomhut

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DIY Hyper-Modified Honda Motorcycle Hits 214 MPG

DIY Hyper-Modified Honda Motorcycle Hits 214 MPG

Fans of the hypermiling super-modded Aerocivic, meet its motorcycle counterpart! Designed and built by velomobile enthusiast Allert Jacobs, this streamlined recumbent motorcycle has been outfitted with an

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Design your Own Electric Vehicle With the Trexa EV Platform!

Design your Own Electric Vehicle With the Trexa EV Platform!

What if designing your own electric vehicle was as simple as picking out the parts and plugging them together? Trexa is aiming to make that dream a reality as they unveil the world's first fully-electric

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Makedo Connector System Turns Trash into Treasures

Makedo Connector System Turns Trash into Treasures

Are you in need of some cool new décor for your barren apartment? For us more fiscally challenged individuals it seems like the easiest and cheapest thing to do is to tack up a poster of our favorite

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READER TIP: How to Put Your LED Holiday Lights to Use Year Round

READER TIP: How to Put Your LED Holiday Lights to Use Year Round

If you made the switch from traditional energy-sucking holiday lights to efficient LED ones this year, we applaud you. But we also know that they aren't the cheapest thing in the world. That's why were

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LED Clip Light Transforms any Object Into a Lamp

LED Clip Light Transforms any Object Into a Lamp

Wow those around you by transforming any old household object into a lamp with this “LED Pin” by Korean designer Sungho Lee. To create this subtle, yet awe-inspiring illuminating accent Lee stylized

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5 Cheap & Easy Ways to Green Your Wardrobe

5 Cheap & Easy Ways to Green Your Wardrobe

As Inhabitat's fashion editor, I spend a lot of time (yes, a tad bit little longer than is required for my job) perusing through seriously crave-worthy fashions, from the frilly and ethereal, to the

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The DIY Floating Water Bike

The DIY Floating Water Bike

Have you ever thought to yourself while riding a bike “Gee, I sure wish that I could cross that river.” Well now here’s your chance! Li Wieguo has come up with a relatively cheap and

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ANNOUNCING: Our Spring Greening Contest Winners!

ANNOUNCING: Our Spring Greening Contest Winners!

DRUMROLL PLEASE... Spring has sprung, the votes have been cast, and we're excited to announce the winners of our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest! We feel fortunate to have such an incredibly talented

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Briefcase Made from a Recycled Macbook Box

Briefcase Made from a Recycled Macbook Box

We were glad to see that we're not the only ones that, upon unpackaging our shiny new macbook, thought it was such a shame to use such a lovely case just for packaging material. Rather than ditching or

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Recycled Aluminum Soda Can Brooch

Recycled Aluminum Soda Can Brooch

Another inspiring finalist in our Spring Greening Contest is Kumvana Gomani, who created this beautiful little bird brooch from recycled aluminum. To make it she took an aluminum can, flattened it, cut

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Last Chance to Vote in our Spring Greening Contest!

Last Chance to Vote in our Spring Greening Contest!

SPRING GREENING CLOSES TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT! Our Spring Greening Design Contest closes at midnight tonight, which makes this your LAST CHANCE to cast your vote for your favorite DIY design! As our

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Orange Dish Rack Grows a Green Herb Garden

Orange Dish Rack Grows a Green Herb Garden

One of fifteen finalists in our Spring Greening DIY Design Contest, Nibha Jain and Srikanth Jalasutram’s “Orange” dish drying rack puts wet dishes to work by using their droplets to

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