Gardening
Honda Miimo is a Robotic Lawn Mower for Green-Conscious Homeowners
Fans of the automatic Roomba vacuum cleaner will love the new Honda Miimo robotic lawn mower. The Honda Miimo lawn mower functions just like the Roomba, but instead of keeping your carpet and floors
Bloombox iPhone Docking Station is a Living Natural Acoustic Amplifier
Gardening and technology don't always mix, but in the case of the Bloombox, a living iPhone acoustic amplifier, it's like star-crossed lovers have finally been united. The Bloombox is the brilliant idea
N.I. Teijin Shoji’s Aquaponics Fish Tank Grows Fresh Vegetables Indoors
This small aquaponics system, designed as a therapeutic indoor display has been developed by N.I. Teijin Shoji, grows fresh lettuce and fish. The aquaponics system consists of a fish tank and a vegetable
INHABITAT Picks Up Gardening Tips From Flora Grubb Gardens in San Francisco
Upcycled Vehicles Make Hip Planters Take one old beaten up, broken down car, add a truckload of soil and a whole bunch of plants and you get an awesome new planter. If you don't have enough space for a
HOW TO: Grow an Avocado Tree from an Avocado Pit
Avocados are one of the wonderful fruits of summer. High in nutrition and flavor, nothing signals the start of summer like a zesty lime guacamole dip with tortilla chips. The next time you’re making
The Plant-A-Saurus: A Colorful and Quirky Dino-Shaped Planter from Shelter and Black Shop
These quirky dinosaur planters become a brilliant way of combining gardening with an imaginative prehistoric creature. Spotted at this year's Dwell on Design, the clever decorative plant pots have been
UCLA Campus to Get a Green Makeover By the Student Food Collective
With the help of some pro-active social-networking on Facebook, the UCLA campus is being transformed into a new food cooperative. 'GOOD Maker' collaborated with UCLA’s BGreen Consulting to launch the
Larger Than Life LEGO Animals Pop Up at Iowa’s Reiman Gardens!
Reiman Gardens is one of the largest public gardens in the state and serves as the entrance to Iowa State University and the city of Ames. The Nature Connects show is part of Reiman Gardens' 2012 Some
A Community Garden Blooms at Berlin’s Abandoned Tempelhof Airport
These gardens are visited daily by a truly diverse range of people who come to enjoy the vast, open space provided by the abandoned airport site. Blooming under the Tempelhofer Freiheit umbrella, this
Artist Jaroslaw Koziara’s Gigantic Fish Sows Seeds of Unity Between Poland and Ukraine
Artist Jaroslaw Koziara grew this gigantic 'crop circle' fish on fields between Horodyszcze (Poland) and Warez (Ukraine) for the Land Art Festival. He wanted to symbolize the history of unity and of trade
Vicky Pendant Lamp Terrarium Shines a Light on Indoor Gardening
Mexican-born, Netherlands-based designer José de la O unveiled a brilliant hanging pendant lamp that doubles as a vegetable garden at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair. Dubbed “Vicky”,
Kenji Huang Designs a Wooden Toolkit to Help Children Connect with Nature
Flooded with cheap plastic toys and electronic games, the world of children's toys is in need of stronger, basic designs. Created by Kenji Huang, a half-Japanese, half-Taiwanese designer Ima-jen
10 Awesome Eco-Activities to Do This Earth Day
Happy Hikers, Shutterstock 1. Take a Hike There is no better way to get back in touch with the Earth's rhythms than to actually go outdoors and experience its many wonders. This Earth Day, why not take
6 Super Easy Gardening Projects To Do This Weekend
Vertical Garden Panels by Flora Grubb If you've been admiring the beautiful floral work and installations by Flora Grubb but can't get out to San Fran, fear not, because she has plenty of DIY kits for
6 Hard-to-Kill Plants for the Recovering Brown Thumb
ZZ Plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia) Sorry for using morbidity to illustrate our point, but the ZZ plant is so hardy, it will most likely outlive you. This cockroach of the plant world thrives in almost all
Incredible Gardens Sprout in Quebec for the International Garden Festival
Redford Gardens in Grand-Métis, Québec, Canada is set to host the 13th edition of the International Garden Festival from June 23 to September 30, 2012. An amazing array of botanical feats will be on
Lush Living Wall Masks the Construction Site of a New Philadelphia Shake Shack
Shake Shack is set to open their new Philly restaurant in the beginning of the summer at 2000 Sansom Street (corner of 20th and Sansom), near beautiful Rittenhouse Square in Center City. Until it's
7 Indoor Plants That Purify the Air Around You Naturally
Dendrobium and Phaeleonopsis Orchids Orchids have a bad reputation as being finicky and difficult to grow, but really, the opposite is true. On our recent trip to Costa Farms, we learned that orchids
Coconut Coir Makes an Eco-Friendly Soil That Helps The Earth & Your Plants To Thrive
Check out the roots of the plant on the left (which was grown in peat) and compare them to the roots of the plant on the right (grown in coconut coir). Anyone who has ever cared for plants has probably
HOW TO: Use Naturemill’s Metro Composter to Compost Indoors Without the Odor
STEP 1: Getting set up Remove all of the contents from the shipping box and find a good spot in your home to keep your unit. You will need to be close to an electric outlet, so a kitchen counter may
Mind the Plant Garden Planters Are Made from Recycled Plastic from Local Construction Sites
Mind the Plant makes its garden planters from recycled plastic from local construction sites. The woven baskets are manufactured locally by the work integrating social co-op YallaTrappan in Malmo, Sweden.
Urban Patches is a Website That Teaches and Connects Aspiring City Farmers
Hoping to get your own urban farm started this year but unsure where to begin? Urban Patches is a website that can help! With interviews from current, economically successful urban farmers, best
The Mino Garden Gnome Will Feed Your Plants Before It Disappears from Your Garden
Giovanni Tomasini's Mino Garden Gnome is a much more enterprising dwarf than those past. Despite its jazzy colors, the classic gnome we've all come to love is a melancholic figure, condemned to a purely
Occupy Vacant Lots Project Constructs a Pre-Fab Shed for Urban Gardeners
Students at Green Mountain College (GMC) recently took on a mission to develop a shed for urban farmers that would suit the needs of the gardeners of the future. The OVaL Shed -- otherwise known as the
Mobile Urban Agriculture Blooms in Berlin’s Prinzessinnengarten
Inhabitat writer Ana Lisa Alperovich visited Prinzessinnengarten and talked to Marco Clausen, who together with Robert Shaw created the fantastic blooming space. Clausen told us how they were inspired by
DIY: How to Make Your Own Green Moss Graffiti!
We lurve green graffiti, so when we spotted this DIY moss graffiti recipe over on Green Prophet we just had to share it with you. Stories from Space is experimenting with the perfect formula that allows
Rainwater Harvesting PET-Tree System Makes Urban Gardening a Breeze
Pet-Tree is a vertical eco gardening system made from recycled PET containers. The design consists of structural plastic pieces and PET pots that are combined to form a tree-like shape. The system also
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