5 Super Efficient Tiny NYC Apartments

From Smart cars to micro wind turbines, we are firm believers in the idea that bigger isn’t always better, especially when it comes to living spaces. Whether its a prefab cabin on an open lot of

TreeHugger Debate on Thursday, May 26: Is Prefab A Greener Way To Build?

A question we’ve often pondered – how green is prefab construction? Without much hard data to back it up, we only have theories to go on, hoping that it really might be more resource efficient

Treehugger’s Gift Guide for the Design Junkie

We recently rolled out our 2010 Green Holiday Gift Guide, but if you’re looking for even more green design goodness head over to Treehugger to check out their list of Gifts for the Design Junkie!

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

View Tube: A Two Floor Lime Green Shipping Container Cafe in London

Who wouldn’t want to have a spot of afternoon tea at this delightful lime green shipping container cafe overlooking the site of the London 2012 Olympics? Dubbed the View Tube, the eatery and gallery

Top 10 Must-Follow Green Twitterers!

Nowadays, we want our eco information fast and in bite size chunks – so what better place (besides Inhabitat.com, of course) to find it than on Twitter? However with all the green twactivity going

Top Ten Green Twitterers To Check Out!

Think you know the green twitter scene? While the most obvious green twitterers to follow might be @treehugger, @algore or @grist (and OBVIOUSLY @inhabitat – duh!), there are a ton of really great,

Hydroponics Are Hot

Olympic medals are not the only thing that come out of Vancouver, Canada; it is also a hotbed of hydroponic creativity. TreeHugger contributor Sami Grover has suggested that equipment developed for a

Wearable Architecture: Our Clothing Becomes Our Houses

What is a house, anyways? For the designers of the Veasyble wearable shelter, isolation and intimacy are important. They reflect on “the change in our relationship with the domestic environment, due

The Best of The Toronto International Design Festival

There have been many design events circling around the big Interior Design Show in Toronto for years, but this is the first time they have all been rolled together into one big festival. The normally

Taking Stock of Stock House Plans

Go into any bookstore or search on words “Stock House Plans” and you will find thousands of them, mostly junk. Perhaps 50% of are stolen and just about all of them get twisted and stretched

TreeHugger Reports From Greenbuild 2009

Just last week Treehugger joined thousands of designers, builders and architects in Arizona to check out all the latest advances in sustainable building at Greenbuild 2009. By the time we got to Phoenix,

Inhabitatshop Blogger Contest: We Have a Winner!

As part of the grand opening of the Inhabitatshop two weeks ago, we summoned all of you influential bloggers out there to pick your favorite eco design goodies from the shop and blog your hearts out about

VIDEO: Treehugger Greener Gadgets Wrap

GREEN DEETS 013 Greener Gadgets Wrap from George Spyros on Vimeo Since we’re on a video rampage today, we’d love to point you to a fabulous video of our Greener Gadgets Conference that we just

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

TREEHUGGER STUFF BUMP

Not content to merely conquer the world of eco-blogging, the Treehugger crew is expanding into product design. Treehugger’s Graham Hill & Petz Scholtus (who are both product designers by trade)