VIDEO: The Buckminster Fuller Institute

The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) is an organization after Inhabitat’s own heart. It was formed by the visionary eco architect/designer’s family in 1983 to champion Buckminster

Enter the Methodology DIY Design Competition to Win a Year’s Supply of Method Cleaning Products!

This month Method and Dwell are teaming up to give one lucky designer a year’s supply of Method cleaning products! They’re challenging you to dazzle them with imaginative, innovative, and

Dazzling Cascade Chandelier is Made From Chains of Recycled Plastic Bottle Flowers

British designer Michelle Brand‘s Cascade Lancashire Ceiling Lights are an eco-friendly twist on the iconic chandelier. Made from hanging flower-shaped bottle bases cleverly attached together by

Gorgeous Green-Roofed Black Sheep House Looks Out to Sea

Show Your Support for Grassroots Environmentalists and Check Out the Goldman Environmental Prize!

Curvy Steam Bent Achair is a Wood Awards Innovation Winner

Achair, a stylish seat produced by the ancient technique of bending wood with vapor, was recently honored in this year’s Wood Awards in the “innovation” category. Hand-made by British

You Have Less Than 24 Hours to Enter the Wild Energy Competition!

Hey green design super heroes! Want to make a positive green design difference to one of the last, great untouched and natural places of the world? The Wild Energy Competition is giving you twenty four

Enter MAKE Magazine’s Green Project Contest!

This December Make magazine is asking you to submit all your awesome green projects in their killer Green Project Contest running all this month. Where creativity knows no bounds, Make will be accepting

NEW PHOTOS: Canstruction Sculptures Made Entirely From Cans!

Just last week we brought you a peek at the incredible winners of this year’s NYC’s Canstruction competition, which challenges engineers, architects, contractors, and students to create massive

Canstruction: Amazing Sculptures Made From Canned Goods

LifeEdited Challenges Individuals to Cut Down on Possessions

If there is one good thing that has come out of the global economic meltdown, it has been the movement away from a culture of excess. Our friend and founder of TreeHugger, Graham Hill recently launched

Have a Brilliant Design? Enter A’ Design’s Latest Competition!

If you have on a brilliant design you’d like to share with the world, then the A’Design Award & Competition just may be the venue you’ve been looking for to grab some recognition.

Communicars Link Together for a New Type of Mass Transit

The Communicar is a commuter electrical vehicle that combines the advantages of mass transit with those of the automobile. It is a car that can hook up with its compatriots bumper-to-bumper to form long

Colorful Crocheted Smart Car Hits the Streets of Rome

A mini car plus some beautiful handiwork add up to this incredible crocheted Smart Car in Rome, photographed by StartTheDay. No word on who the super crafter is, but we love design and the super hip

The 2010 Buckminster Fuller Institute 2010 Challenge Winner!

Buckminster Fuller was an amazing visionary of a man: architect, engineer and one of the first true “green designers” of the modern era, so it should come as no surprise that we’re big

FAREstudios’s Green Women’s Clinic Inspires Hope in West Africa

Some of of the greatest social and environmental challenges are focused around the issue of reproductive rights. Italian-based FAREstudios created a brilliant architectural solution to the issue by

The ‘Land Art Generator Initiative’ Combines Art with Energy Creation

The power of art is often described as being emotional, healing, ethereal, and inspirational. But in the context of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), art’s power is as literal as that:

Enter the 2010 Seoul Cycle Design Competition!

Do you have a brilliant idea for an eco-efficient bicycle that you’re eager to show the world? Then enter it in the 2010 Seoul Cycle Design Competition for a shot at international recognition at the

Canstruction: Incredible Sculptures Made From Canned Food

Bridging the gap between good design and giving back to the community, Canstruction, the annual international design/build competition where architects, engineers, designers, and students compete to

SPACE Architects’ Efizia Tower LEEDs Mexico City in Green Design

Intent on producing one of the greenest buildings in Latin America, SPACE Architects + Planners have unveiled their Efizia Tower design for the Santa Fe district of Mexico City. The 33 story tower will be

METROPOLIS NEXT GENERATION COMPETITION 2005

Metropolis Magazine has just announced the results of its Next Generation Design competition. The two winners were Joseph Hagerman, for an eco-friendly permeable paving stone, and Alisa Andrasek, for an