We tend to have a love/hate relationship with Wal-Mart, but we will give them props for their latest green effort. The retailer has just installed close to 5,300 solar panels at its Apple Valley

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Apple may soon be rolling out iPods and other Apple products with thin film solar cells integrated right into the body of the device! Apple recently filed a fresh patent for solar powered portable

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The 2010 edition of CES is in full effect in Las Vegas and with it all of the latest gadgets, gizmos and technologies ranging from automotive to internet and wireless. Walking the floor it was clear that

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Welcome to 2010! The start of the new year is the perfect time to reflect upon the past, make resolutions for the future, and think about what the new year will bring. With this in mind, we've asked

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Babies surely haven't been left out of the green revolution. Over the course of 2009 we saw numerous baby products hit the market, all geared at helping parents create a greener, healthier and safer

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To get the word on the cultural scene at COP15, Inhabitat asked some juicy questions of Ian Garrett, co-founder of the Center for Sustainable Practice of the Art (CSPA). Garrett also teaches Sustainable

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Electronics have a pretty nasty rep as polluters of the Earth, but they can actually be an environmentalist's best friend when they're used for good instead of evil. One of the best examples we can think

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Johan Spanner for The New York Times As the world's eyes zeroed in on this week's COP15 climate change talks, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg gazed on a much more placid scene - Denmark's 209

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Everybody loves Hanukkah, the festival of lights that comes but once a year! Every December, we look forward to this joy-filled excuse to stuff our faces with fried potatoes, sour cream and apple sauce,

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Photo by Michael Appleton Perhaps following London's lead, the NYC Transit recently rolled out a new electric bus that uses a turbine engine to recharge a lithium-ion battery. Also eco on the inside,

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THE INHABITAT GREEN HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE! Who doesn’t love the holiday season? The trimmed trees, the colorful lights, that first sip of hot apple cider… But wait, you can’t forget the

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In this modern age of light pollution, cities that never sleep, 24 hour streaming TV and addictive RSS feeds, regulating one's own circadian rhythms can be, well...difficult. And for those of us who have

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Making environmentally conscious consumer choices can be difficult when walking down supermarket aisles awash with hyper-marketed products. Enter GoodGuide, who has just released a new barcode scanning

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COMPETITION ENDS TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT! We're ramping up our coverage of eco-conscious NYC restaurants, book stores, boutiques and parks here on Inhabitat and we're turning to YOU, our knowledgeable

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Is there anything the iPhone can't do? Researchers at NASA's Homeland Security Cell-All program have brought the latest mind-boggling application to Apple's phone in the form of a stamp-sized chemical

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Earlier this week, Regen wowed us with their sleek, modular iPhone charger. Now the electronics company is back again with another impressive Apple-related product: the Reverb, an eye-catching 3-foot tall

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For those of you with the latest iPod or iPhone Touch, in a months time you'll be able to charge your Apple gadgets with a fancy schmancy new solar case. Novothink, a manufacturer of alternative

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These rewritable Chalkboard Tees are better than an apple a day. They're a message a day - written right on your kid's t-shirt! We're giving one away to a lucky winner to send their child back to school

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Green labels abound for seafood, coffee, fair-trade, organic products and more, but we have yet to come across one unifying label that allows us to compare apples to oranges in terms of sustainability.

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The Big Apple’s known for its bright lights, but the city’s iconic luminescence also sucks up huge amounts of power every year. Luckily, a team of designers came up with a plan to keep the city’s

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This re-covered iPod is almost like hugging a tree, except it fits in the palm of your hand. So perhaps it's more like giving a tree a handshake and hearing your favorite tunes at the same time. Josh D,

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Let’s be clear - paving a surface does not reduce storm water run-off, but if you must create a street, parking lot, driveway, or any other form of this detriment, an apples-to-apples comparison between

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It's a picture of a tree. Yes. Okay. But this tree has a phone number. If you call this tree it will tell you stories of the neighborhood. It will talk about the Bronx Grand Concourse, about itself, even

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Would you believe that this eye-catching lamp was made for under one dollar? 'Sleeve' by Sara Ebert is a lampshade made from a Salvation Army sweater and a discarded apple juice bottle. Showcased as

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Far and away our favorite exhibit at this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair was Design For A Dollar. With one dollar to work with, students from the Pratt Institute of Design in NYC were

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We came, we saw... and now we'd like to share with you our favorite green designs from this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair. This annual furniture fair takes place every year in NYC in

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One of Inhabitat’s favorite eco-design posses, EcoSystems, will be unveiling its new line at next week's BKLYN Designs showcase, but for you lucky readers we have an early offering: their new

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Most of our modern-day gadgets are swathed in plastic or other high-tech materials, and why wouldn't they be? Plastic is both cheap and easy to produce. But English Russia's display of wooden gadgets

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Happy Earth Day! (or screw earth day, depending on your point of view) This Earth Day, we're feeling conflicted about the mixed meanings that Earth Day has for the environmental movement and

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Imagine you're lost in the woods, having wandered off the hiking trail. It's looking like you may have to bed down on some pine needles with what's left of the granola bars, when your friend whips out a

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