Samsung Unveils Green Phone Made From Corn

The Reclaim - Samsung and service partner Sprint’s newest green phone - has innovative features that go beyond the bare bones that similar products like Motorola’s W233 Renew phone offers. This

Laser Cut Leaves are Nature’s Unique Business Cards

If you're in the market for new business cards or a cutting-edge new advertising medium, you should take a look at this brilliant idea - your message or logo etched right onto a real leaf, no paint

IS IT GREEN?: The Compact Fluorescent Light

Shortly after Al Gore debuted An Inconvenient Truth the general public started giving a damn about climate change -- at least superficially. And in a massive wave of effort to show off our new

US Postal Service Delivers Plan for Huge Green Roof in NYC

The US Postal Service can now add another notch to their sustainability belt - a huge green roof on top of their Morgan mail processing facility in NYC. The roof taps in at 2.5 acres of native, drought

Sizzling Stuff for a Sustainable Summer

As summer heats up, we're looking forward to bikini and pina colada time by the pool. If you're looking for stylish items to help keep you cool that won't break the bank or your eco-conscience, here are

Green Your Fourth of July: Last Minute Party Solutions

Happy Fourth of July! We know that you must already be celebrating in green style -- with biodegradable plates, composting bins and maybe even some eco-friendly fireworks. But if you are having an

5 Cheap and Easy Last Minute Ways to Green Your Fourth of July

Maybe you simply didn't have enough time this year to think about it. Or maybe you've already gotten so many biodegradable plates, composting bins and other eco-hookups for your Fourth of July shindig

Sizzling Summer Shop Picks for Eco-Friendly Celebrating

BBQs, frosty drinks, swimming pools and bikinis - these are what summer dreams are made of. With all of the excitement, planning a summer that is both unforgettable and eco-conscious can seem daunting,

Aveda is Saving Oceans & Marine Life One Plastic Cap at a Time

Wondering how to turn all of those plastic bottle caps running rampant in your household into a green, planet saving endeavor? Well, lucky for you, and for marine life everywhere, Aveda has come up with

Sharecropper: NYC’s Micro-Farming Public Art Project

Urban restoration projects are definitely the new agrarian frontier, as city dwellers rethink the possibilities for crop production in zones formerly deemed barren or simply too gritty. One can no longer

Sony Ericsson Debuts New Eco-Phones: C901 and Naite

There were whispers all week that Sony Ericsson would be releasing a line of eco-friendly cellphones today - and it turns out that the rumors were true. The telecom giant debuted 2 new green handsets, the

Naomi Dean Gives Reclaimed Office Furniture New Life

Office furniture often gets sent to die in a dark, damp landfill, where it remains for much longer than we care to admit. It tends to be cheap, molded, made from particle board and sometimes includes

ECO ART: Plastic Bottle Installation in NYC

Sometimes it is hard to truly grasp how much waste we create as a society. That's why NYC-based graphic design agency, MSLK is creating an installation that is an in-your-face visual of the amount of

Scientists Discover How to Grow Plastic on Trees

We tend not to acknowledge it, but our dependence on oil is not limited to the consumption of fossil fuels for energy and transportation. Finding an alternative to plastic (which is also made from oil),

Transformable LED Trask Lights from MIO

Philadelphia-based design team MIO has upped the ante for end-user creativity yet again with the introduction of their first LED light fixture. Called Trask because it can switch from being “track” or

Grass For Your Home or Office Desk

Is your desk drab or boring? Do you need a little extra feng-shui in your home or your office? Why not try a grass square to brighten up your desk and give it a little something extra. These grass squares

Ecosystems BADA Table Transforms Into a Love-Seat

We viewed dozens of innovative, noteworthy designs at BKLYN Designs last week. In fact, we were so blown away by the caliber of work we encountered that we wondered how we’d EVER single out 5 selections

Terra Keramik Sustainably Produced Swiss Tableware

Terra Keramik is a Swiss ceramic company that has partnered with glassmaker Glasi, and German handmade espresso accessories company Café Kultur to export their lines of sustainably produced tableware and

ChunWei Liao Elevates Common Cardboard to Design

At Milan’s 2009 furniture fair, Designersblock did not depart from its habit of showing the very best in fresh new design, and ChunWei Liao's Transformer furniture and lighting collection is the perfect

MILAN 2009: The Best of Green Design

The 2009 Milan Furniture Fair showcased an incredible assortment of furnishings, lighting, and housewares from all over the world, ranging from the well-established designers showcased in the main

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

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

SANS: Is Eco Fashion an Oxymoron?

New York-based design house SANS wants to be perfectly clear - despite the fact that they use mostly eco-friendly fabrics like organic cotton, soy and wild silk -- they do not consider themselves an 'eco'

Project H Abject Object Party next Thursday in LA!

Calling all Los Angeles residents who love ping pong, free beer, and design for humanity... Project H, the product design nonprofit, is debuting their Los Angeles chapter's Abject Object initiative next

Is Boxed Water Better?

Only 14% of plastic water bottles are recycled, and Americans add 30 million PET water bottles to landfills every day! Aiming to provide an alternative to this alarming trend, Michigan-based Boxed Water

Student Designs Biodegradable Packaging for McDonald’s

Fast food packaging takes up a hefty chunk of our landfill space while effectively clear-cutting our forests. The golden arch proprietors dole out over 2 billion burgers a year, each individually wrapped

David Stark’s Incredible Recycled Cardboard Creations

A new West Elm store opened up in Manhattan last week, and the opening gala featured an incredible collection of one-of-a-kind cardboard furnishings crafted by acclaimed designer and event producer David

LG Answers the Green Call With a Solar-Powered Cell Phone

Not to be outdone by Samsung's Blue Earth and ZTE's Coral-200, LG recently unveiled its own solar-powered concept cell phone at the Wold Mobile Conference in Barcelona. The prototype, which features a

Live-blogging Greener Gadgets TODAY!

Attention gadget geeks! The 2009 Greener Gadgets Conference kicked off today in NYC, and Inhabitat is on the scene, bringing you up-to-the-minute news from this groundbreaking event! We'll be

Green Marketing Manifesto Wins UK Environmental Book Award

Recently the Green Marketing Manifesto by John Grant was announced as the winner of the Environmental Award at the 2008 British Book Design and Production Awards. Designed and delivered by sustainable

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