social responsibility

Light the World Using Dirt Powered Fuel Cells!

Light the World Using Dirt Powered Fuel Cells!

Take a little bit of soil, add some microbes, a little bit of human ingenuity and you'll find yourself with the most unlikely source of power ever - dirt! Building off of this simple concept, a team from

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John Todd wins Buckminster Challenge Award

John Todd wins Buckminster Challenge Award

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge honors visionary thinking that seeks to “solve humanity’s most pressing problems in the shortest possible time while enhancing the Earth’s ecological

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HELP AFH HELP MYANMAR CYCLONE VICTIMS

HELP AFH HELP MYANMAR CYCLONE VICTIMS

Always quick to act, Architecture For Humanity is quickly pulling together efforts to offer design services to the survivors left in Cyclone Nargis' wake this past Saturday. With more than two million

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DINKINS GARDENS: Harlem’s First Affordable Green Housing

DINKINS GARDENS: Harlem’s First Affordable Green Housing

Spring is off to a fresh start in New York as Harlem's first affordable green community blossoms to life. Situated on West 153rd Street, David & Joyce Dinkins Gardens offers 85 units of affordable

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Earth Day, China, and the Trouble with Leading by Example

Earth Day, China, and the Trouble with Leading by Example

I have mixed feelings about Earth Day as a holiday. The various gestures and campaigns it incites often seem hastily cast towards a brief window of opportunity during which people care about the

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON EARTH DAY?

WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON EARTH DAY?

Happy Earth Day! This Earth Day, we find our Inhabitat team has grown to span nearly every corner of the globe. Since Earth Day is supposed to be about finding a global perspective on the state of our

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Sunken Subway Cars To Replace Eroding Barrier Reefs

Sunken Subway Cars To Replace Eroding Barrier Reefs

It's a condo boom for sea creatures as retired New York subway cars are being hurled into the ocean deep. The initiative, headed by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control,

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Millennium Promise Competition at Design21

Millennium Promise Competition at Design21

Social Design Network Design 21 has a brand new design competition, with a fantastic purpose! Hosted by the NPO Millennium Promise, your challenge is to create a campaign design, with the mission to

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REPORT FROM SOUTH AFRICA: Hippo Rollers Delivered!

REPORT FROM SOUTH AFRICA: Hippo Rollers Delivered!

Greetings from South Africa! Regular readers of Inhabitat are hopefully aware of the exciting humanitarian design initiative called Project H Design, founded by our very own Emily Pilloton. Currently

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Cheap LEDs to Light Up Africa and Beyond

Cheap LEDs to Light Up Africa and Beyond

We love our LEDs for lamps and Christmas lights, but there's a global application for LEDs that could bring inexpensive and efficient light to the 75% of Africa that lacks dependable access to clean, safe

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GUERILLA GARDENING: Strategies for Greening the Hood

GUERILLA GARDENING: Strategies for Greening the Hood

Regardless of whether you are an urban, suburban, or rural dweller, there is inevitably a patch of neglected turf in your neighborhood that might need a bit of TLC and greening. If you see hidden

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KILL PLASTIC BAGS WITH TAXES: look to Ireland

KILL PLASTIC BAGS WITH TAXES: look to Ireland

Ireland plastic bag usage drops dramatically after plastic bag taxes are instated! With all the recent bans on plastic bags around the world, it's natural to wonder just how effective all the bag

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Eco-Friendly Single Family Residence by AKA Architetti

Eco-Friendly Single Family Residence by AKA Architetti

Italian designers are surely global frontrunners when it comes to cutting edge fashion and innovative design (as evidenced by our previous coverage of the 2007 Milan Furniture Fair). With this in mind, we

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Project H Design at Greener Gadgets Conference!

Project H Design at Greener Gadgets Conference!

If you want to see some truly innovative greener gadgets up close and personal, come by the Project H Design booth at next week's Greener Gadgets Conference. The clever and socially-responsible BOGO

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Hale County Animal Shelter by (New) Rural Studio

Hale County Animal Shelter by (New) Rural Studio

It is probably no surprise that we are big fans of Rural Studio and their community-based regionalist architecture. Samuel ‘Sambo” Mockbee was a real visionary, and outside of being an

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China Bans Plastic Bags

China Bans Plastic Bags

It seems that plastic shopping bags are really on the way out. It started with San Francisco, Hong Kong, then Melbourne and other cities, and now, beginning in July, all plastic shopping bags in the

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Merry Christmas from Inhabitat!

Merry Christmas from Inhabitat!

Depending on your family traditions, Christmas is a day of everything from gift giving to tofurkey, mistletoe, egg nog, and other less-common behavior like “wrapping paper ball fights.” Last

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VIDEO: Yves Behar Talks About the $100 Laptop

VIDEO: Yves Behar Talks About the $100 Laptop

One of our favorite examples of a great green gadget for the greater good, the One Laptop Per Child is getting all kinds of attention and is now widely available for purchase. Check out the latest video

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EXTENSION CABLE CANDLE HOLDER by the Home Project

EXTENSION CABLE CANDLE HOLDER by the Home Project

European design duo Kathi Stertzig and Albio Nascimento of the Home Project have made a career out of playing with familiar objects and using them in unexpected new ways. Their MAX 5000W installation is

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Adopt an Animal from WWF and Get a Cute Plush Toy!

Adopt an Animal from WWF and Get a Cute Plush Toy!

Adopt an animal from the World Wildlife Fund, and you will get a cute plush toy version of your animal. Every donation you make to WWF helps save some of the world’s most endangered animals from

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World Wildlife Fund Super Smart Eco Ad Campaign

World Wildlife Fund Super Smart Eco Ad Campaign

Check out this brilliant World Wildlife Fund ad campaign in the form of bathroom towel dispensers! Demonstrating that Saatchi and Saatchi is the undisputed king of transforming advertising into an art

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IRELAND BANS INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS

IRELAND BANS INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS

In a bold and laudable move, Ireland has just announced plans to ban the sale of incandescent light-bulbs by the year 2009. This makes it the first European nation to outlaw the old energy hogging bulbs.

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WORLD’S LARGEST SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

WORLD’S LARGEST SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

A project for the world's largest sustainable region has been announced and is expected to include all the things that one would expect in a sustainable development: renewable energy, environmentally

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TAKEBACK MY TV: Think Before You Recycle

TAKEBACK MY TV: Think Before You Recycle

© Basel Action Network 2006 The tale of what happens to your old, forgotten television sets is sad, shocking, and may even turn you off from the very idea of recycling your gadgets. So before we

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CLEANING UP AN OIL SPILL WITH HAIR AND MUSHROOMS?

CLEANING UP AN OIL SPILL WITH HAIR AND MUSHROOMS?

The recent Cosco Busan oil spill in the San Francisco Bay may have just met its match in an eco-cleaning solution that uses human hair and mushrooms! A group of intrepid volunteers has embarked on a

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ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD Give-One-Get-One STARTS TODAY!

ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD Give-One-Get-One STARTS TODAY!

One of our favorite humanitarian product designs, the One Laptop Per Child Project is launching a brilliant initiative to kickstart their donation program. The “Buy one give one” program

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OLPC Launches Buy One/Donate One Initiative!

OLPC Launches Buy One/Donate One Initiative!

One of our favorite humanitarian product designs, the $100 Laptop (One Laptop Per Child) is going BOGO! The “Buy one give one” program starts Monday November 12th and runs for 2 weeks only-

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Help Support AFH California Wild Fire Response!

Help Support AFH California Wild Fire Response!

As the fires in California continue to rage, Architecture for Humanity is already on the move, with architects planning reconstruction, and the local Los Angeles and San Diego chapters helping families

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THE BUBBLE GUM BIN – Made From ‘Recycled’ Gum!

THE BUBBLE GUM BIN – Made From ‘Recycled’ Gum!

Our streets our littered with used chewing gum, but next time your bubble loses its pop, don’t drop it—recycle it! Anna Bullus’s Bubble Gum Bin is made from Gumnetic, a new biodegradable material

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Want to stop global warming? STOP COAL!

Want to stop global warming? STOP COAL!

WHY? Coal is the only fossil fuel plentiful enough and supposedly 'cheap' enough to push the planet to 450 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere - an event which will trigger potentially

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