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The ‘Be a Bee’ Pavilion Gives Beekeeping a Cool New Look
The ‘Be a Bee’ pavilion at the international garden fair Floriade is an initiative by the Dutch Beekeepers Association designed to give the face of beekeeping a fresh new look. A cool new design that
Wayne Hemingway Unveils Umbrella Made from Recycled Plant-Based Plastic Bottles
Coca-Cola recently teamed up with environmentally minded designer Wayne Hemingway to introduce an umbrella made from recycled plant-based PET bottles. Available just in time for fall, the umbrellas are a
Masiosare Studio Creates Fun and Functional Green Products
Three young designers working under the name Masiosare Studio are creating green products that mix humor and Mexican identity with a cradle-to-cradle design approach. Their Ms line is comprised of 4
LAST CHANCE: Enter Our Earth Week Giveaway to Win Over $1000 of Cool Green Products!
LAST CHANCE TO WIN SOME AMAZING CRADLE TO CRADLE PRODUCTS – we’re giving away over $1000 worth of eco-friendly prizes! In honor of Earth Week, last week we teamed up with eco design
Enter to Win a SAYL Task Chair from Herman Miller (Worth $749)!
HAPPY EARTH THURSDAY INHABITAT READERS! If you’ve been reading Inhabitat, you know that we’re celebrating Earth Day in a big way with our Earth Week Giveaway. In addition to offering up a
Enter to Win a Cozy Eco-Wise Wool Pendelton Throw (Worth $98)!
HAPPY EARTH WEEK INHABITAT READERS! Yesterday we launched the first of our four fabulous Earth Week Giveaways with a fantastic cleaning bundle from Method and Casabella. To celebrate this Earth Tuesday
Win a Plush Ultra Shag Area Rug from Shaw (Worth $439!)
HAPPY EARTH WEDNESDAY INHABITAT READERS! What better way to celebrate Earth Week (and give your living space a little bit of extra oopmh) than by adding a plush rug to your home – especially one you
Win a Basket of Method Cleaning Products and a Casabella Cleaning System (Worth $100)!
HAPPY EARTH MONDAY INHABITAT READERS! To kick off our exciting Earth Week Giveaway, today we’ve gathered up a basket full of Method cleaning products and an amazing Casabella Eclipse Cleaning System
Enter Our Earth Week Giveaway to Win Cool Cradle to Cradle Eco-Prizes!
Make Earth Week a win for both you and the planet! Today is the first day of Earth Week, and to get the celebration going, we’re teaming up with MBDC to hook some very lucky readers up with some
Enter Our Earth Week Giveaway to Win Some Amazing Cradle to Cradle Eco-Prizes!
CELEBRATE EARTH WEEK WITH US! In celebration of Earth Week we’ve teamed up with MBDC to give four lucky winners some fabulous Cradle to Cradle certified prizes! Starting Monday we’ll be
Inhabitat Editors’ Favorite Stories of 2010
As we count down the hours, minutes, and seconds until the clock strikes 2011, the Inhabitat editors took a few moments to look back at our array of great green design stories from this past year, and
The Color Green is Toxic to People, Contaminates Recycling
Green is the color of nature, the environment and sustainability, but ironically the pigments used to create the color are not all that healthy or environmentally friendly. Many green pigments are
Bio Glass is a Gorgeous, Translucent, 100% Recycled Surface
Isn’t it great when you don’t have to sacrifice beauty for sustainability? Case in point: Bio-Glass, a striking material made from 100% post consumer recycled materials. Reader Jacostarubio
McDonough + Partners’ Groundbreaking Isola Office
Sustainable design greats McDonough + Partners will soon be bringing Cradle to Cradle thinking to a city often known first for its fashion: Milan, Italy. Their Isola Office building will be aiming for
TRANSPORTATION TUESDAY: Energy-Efficient Oriens Glider
This stunning energy-efficient glider recently took top prize in the Lucky Strike Junior Designer Competition for its innovative re-envisioning the life-cycle of the airplane. Designed by Roland Cernat,
REMINDER: One Good Chair Competition closes May 30th!
image shows ‘Annie’ – the recycled shopping cart chair from Reestore Design Calling all eco furniture designers! All green ID geniuses! All chair connoisseurs! Here’s your chance
MILAN 2008: David Trubridge Spiral Island Collection
David Trubridge, one of New Zealand’s most celebrated green designers, reincarnates natural forms as light fixtures and seating in his latest work, which he presented at Salone Internazionale del
MILAN 2008: Droog Design ‘A Touch of Green’
Celebrated Dutch design collective Droog Design pushed green design ideas to the forefront this year with their ‘A Touch of Green’ presentation in Milan. Echoing this Inhabitant’s focus
ANNOUNCING: One Good Chair Competition!
image shows ‘Annie’ – the recycled shopping cart chair from Reestore Design Calling all eco furniture designers! All green ID geniuses! All chair connoisseurs! Here’s your chance
LINC Lifestyle Phone Takes E-waste Out of the Equation
If all of the ideas and concepts that were highlighted at the Greener Gadgets Conference were rolled into one product it would look and operate like the LINC Lifestyle Concept Phone from The Greener
CRADLE-TO-CRADLE ECO-TEXTILE Certification Re-Launch
Following their hugely successful and influential book, William McDonough and Michael Braungart’s Cradle to Cradle textile certification is now launching the second generation of its sustainable
SPINACH POWERED HOUSE
We all know how good spinach is for your body, but did you know that it is also good for your house? That’s the proposition behind the house designed by Matthew Coates and Tim Meldrum. Together,
VOTE FOR FINALISTS – the Umbrella Inside Out Competition
As you probably know by now, our pals at Treehugger have been running a competition called Umbrella Inside Out, which asks entrants to do two things: design an umbrella that actually holds up against the
C2C HOME: First Cradle to Cradle house underway
above: entry by Coates and Meldrum Anybody remember the launch of C2C Home a couple of years ago? It was an open competition for residential design using the values of sustainability set forth by William
CRADLE TO CRADLE: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Imagine buildings that generate more energy than they consume and factories whose waste water is clean enough to drink. Renowned ecological architect Willian McDonough has actually built these things and
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