VIDEO: Inhabitat Test Drives the Chevy Volt!

When Chevrolet offered me a chance to test drive their brand new electric car, the Chevy Volt, several months ago I jumped at the chance. After all, I have been following the growing momentum of

INHABITAT VIDEO: The Opening of the NYC High Line!

The highly anticipated second section of the High Line Park will open next week in NYC to what's bound to be a flurry of excitement. Back in 2009, just as the park was first inaugurated, we were on site

INTERVIEW: Jennifer Siegal of Office of Mobile Design

We love the work of Jennifer Siegal's Office of Mobile Design, and our very own Emily Pilloton had the opportunity to talk to her in person about green architecture and her prefab designs. One of her

VIDEO: The Story Of Inhabitat

You might check out Inhabitat for the latest and greatest in green design and innovation (at least we hope you do!), but did you ever wonder how the website began and what fuels it? Check out this

VIDEO: Riding Brammo’s Electric Motorcycle in Green Overdrive

On this week's episode of GigaOM TV's video show Green Overdrive (where if it's green we drive it), I take Brammo's all-electric motorcycle the Enertia out for a spin. It's so much fun to drive, and I did

INTERVIEW: Designer Tom Dixon Talks About Sustainable Design

Tom Dixon, design pioneer and all around renaissance man, was one of the big hits of HauteGREEN's festivities, where he spoke about issues, concerns and contradictions in sustainable design, including

VIDEO: The Secret Life of Paper

Earlier this year Inhabitat’s Emily Pilloton highlighted the insightful video ‘The Secret Life of Cell Phones’ produced by environmental nonprofit INFORM, Inc. Now we are pleased to announce the

Oakland’s DIY “Scraper Bikes” Foster Youth Creativity

In a city struggling with violence and misguided youth, Oakland, California's Scraper Bike Project has done amazing work to give kids a positive outlet that promotes the green movement through customizing

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

14 Buildings Compete in EPA’s “Biggest Energy Loser” Competition

In an effort to get buildings to shed some of their bulging energy usage pounds, the EPA has just announced the National Buildings Competition where they challenge “14 buildings and the teams inside

Discovery Channel Premiers Life

Survival, instinct and adaptation in the natural world are unveiled in Life, a stunning documentary brought to viewers by the BBC and the Discovery Channel. A fitting follow-up to their 2007

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards Brings Green to the Big Screen!

This year’s Academy Awards are about more than just red carpet dresses and celebrity sightings – they’ve got a bit of green going on as well! We’ve rounded up five major movies that not only

INHABITAT’S NEW YEARS RESOLUTION!

As the new year rapidly approaches we're all thinking about what lies ahead, and and this is the time that many of us start to think about New Year's resolutions. I've shared my personal New Year's

The Age of Stupid: Film Charts the Future of Climate Change

Pitched to be this year's most talked-about climate change film, The Age of Stupid is a new movie from director Franny Armstrong (of McLibel) and producer John Battsek (of One Day In September). In this

INHABITAT REPORTS FROM D&A GREEN ROOM!

We're at D&A today! Being the sustainable style junkies we are, Inhabitat is joining forces once again with premiere fashion trade show Designers & Agents to bring you the best and brightest in

VIDEO: Hymini Portable Wind Charger

Despite it's suspicious name, the Hymini really has nothing to do female naughty bits! Instead it is an extremely promising new portable wind charger. One of the biggest crowd-pleasers at our Greener

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 spotted

Greener Gadgets Videos… Here they come!

Drumroll please.... Many of you have been asking for videos of the groundbreaking Greener Gadget Conference - which was held last week in New York City - and here they come! We've got a bunch of

VIDEO: Yves Behar Talks About the $100 Laptop

With our Greener Gadgets Conference a few weeks away, and CES launching today, we thought it fitting to (re)show this great video about the One Laptop Per Child/XO Laptop. Check out the latest video

VIDEO: Sustainable Design at Postopolis!

At the recent Postopolis event in NYC designers, architects, and bloggers came out to discuss issues surrounding architecture, urbanism, sustainability and a slew of other topics. If you were reading

EXPANDABLE FOLDING CHAIR – in video

This isn't a new idea by any means: we've showed you expandable honeycomb folding chairs before from Molo and Charles Kaisin Design. However, the joy of watching this video makes us realize that it takes

ROBO-BUILDER LAUNCHING IN CALIFORNIA

We wrote about Behrokh Khoshnevis’ awe-inspiring, rapid-prototyping “robo builder” in 2005 when it was still a work in progress. But now, the University of Southern California

INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Michelle Kaufmann

Our last Prefab Friday article featured Michelle Kaufmann's latest design, the mkSolaire. That same day, I had a chance to sit down with her at West Coast Green and ask her about her innovative green,

VIDEO: Shipping-Container Homes from Lot-ek

Anyone who reads Inhabitat with regularity knows we love shipping-container architecture, and are big fans of the creative NYC architecture firm Lot-ek. We've raved about their Recycled Airplane Library

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