We've written about the Portable Light Project before at Inhabitat, but we find it so inspiring we thought we'd call your attention to it again. One of the products featured at the soon-ending Design For

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With over 1.1 million people in the world who don't have access to clean drinking water, water-borne pathogens are a huge problem for the environment and for human health. Fortunately a clever little

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The AMD Open Architecture Challenge launches TODAY- Architecture for Humanity's biggest and most ambitious design competition to date. The open, international design competition is co-sponsored by AMD,

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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture recognizes distinguished architecture that encourages social development, restoration, re-use and environmental responsibility in the Islamic world. One of the winning

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Following a ground-rocking 7.9 earthquake that hit central Peru last Wednesday evening destroying nearby towns and killing hundreds, Architecture For Humanity has launched a Peru Earthquake Reconstruction

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Following the Massive Change project and exhibition, the Institute without Boundaries embarks on their second multi-year collaboration; “to design a sustaining, universal and healthy human

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With modern urban epicenters becoming more and more lively and populated, London's Tate Modern Exhibition Global Cities looks at five major issues - size, speed, form, density and diversity - and their

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About a year after Hurricane Katrina, we featured architect Carib Daniel Martin's H.E.L.P. emergency shelter, a modular concept he developed to solve the challenges of widespread and sudden homelessness

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The organization behind awesome humanitarian design projects like the Biloxi Model Homes has now launched an easy and empowering way for any regular Joe Donor to make his donation really count.

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What's better than giving the gift of living, breathing greenery? Knowing that your gift is bringing life and prosperity to both the environment and people in need around the world. Oxfam's Unwrapped

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We've seen shipping containers used for prefab housing before, and now here's another function to add to the list for the reclaimed industrial wonder units: deployable digital datacenters. SUN

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The Clean Hub, “a new prototype for sustainable infrastructure” conceived by Shelter Architecture in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity, and designed and built by architecture

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With all the sobering news lately about global warming and war, it's important to remember all the positive things that are ALSO going on in the world at any given time. Case in point: the story of

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Edward Burtynsky's stunning photographs manage to be both beautiful and simultaneously horrifying, and film director Jennifer Baichwal has managed to capture both the aesthetic and concept behind

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The global warming issue is really starting to heat up. In a startling article from abcnews.com, author Bill Blakemore brings to light NASA and Columbia University Earth Institute’s recently

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This past Thursday, GE's ecomagination celebrated it's two year anniversary in style at GE's Universal Studios theme park, relaying the success of the program and announcing 11 new ecomgination products,

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Foster + Partners is at it again with their design for Masdar in Abu Dhabi, the world’s first zero-carbon and zero-waste city. The new 6 million square meter walled sustainable development Masdar was

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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention opened yesterday to a standing ovation following world renowned ecologist David Suzuki (CC, OBC, BA, Ph.D). His opening speech touched on his

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Last week, the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) announced their design for a 66-story office tower nicknamed 'The Lighthouse.' Conceptualized by Atkins Middle East, The Lighthouse strives to

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The last day of Chicago’s Symposium C6 conference (“The Art World is Flat: Globalism- Crisis and Opportunity”) went out with a bang- the morning’s star-studded panel focused on the

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The Open Architecture Network is off to a blazing start, and today, in coordination with tech company AMD, Architecture for Humanity announced their $250,000 OAN competition to design a sustainable

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Last year, Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity won the prestigious TED Prize, and was granted a world-changing “wish.” His wish was the Open Architecture Network, a completely

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We're gaga over these renderings of Zaha Hadid's proposed Performing Arts Centre in Abu Dhabi. We haven't heard much about how green the building will be, but we're excited to see more and more star

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According to figures released last year, Australia ranks as the highest emitter of greenhouse gases per capita in the world, mostly due to their use of coal for electricity generation. While green power

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My trip to the Gulf Coast this past week proved to be both sobering and inspiring, educational and thought-provoking. Nearly a year and half after Hurricane Katrina, I was surprised by the contrasting

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With all the new construction going up in China, it’s easy to lose track of “one more cool-looking” building. But PTW’s National Swimming Center for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing

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In case you haven't noticed, we're big fans of Architecture for Humanity here at Inhabitat. And Monday-Thursday of next week, I'll be venturing down to the Gulf Coast to see first-hand just what the

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There are green towers and then there are green towers. Subtitled “Rethinking Towers In The Park,” the Seoul Commune 2026 project by Mass Studies is just sheer genius. Aside from its

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Form truly follows function when it comes to the façade of the lean green O-14 (pronounced “oh-14″) office tower which broke ground this past December in Dubai. At 22 stories tall, the

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Ed Mazria is a committed pioneer on the frontier of climate-conscious building. His Architecture 2030 agenda has gained recognition this year as an exemplary model for pushing a rapid and radical shift

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