Sustainable Design

The Best of Green at ETech 2009

The 2009 Emerging Technology Conference offered an incredible opportunity to catch some of the cutting edge ideas...

From the unseen, unsung files of design competitions past comes the Envision Green Hotel designed by Richard Moreta...

As populations in developing nations increase alongside global pollution and the spread of water-borne illnesses,...

Latvian architects NRJA constructed this beautiful renovation of an old stone barn in Saka, Latvia. Rather than...

Hay may be for horses, but straw bales also make an excellent sustainable building material. Constructed by former...

Housewares retailer Owen Lawrence recently made way for La Mediterranea, a line of table top items made from 100%...

Various Architects recently designed this striking Renaissance Pavilion for a competition to create a mobile performance...

Apple recently rolled out its new family of Macbooks with a bold claim: The World’s Greenest Family of Notebooks....

We are big fans of Reestore here at Inhabitat - over the last year we have showed you Annie, the shopping-cart-turned-chair...

Designer and inventor extraordinaire Knut Karlsen recently unveiled an inspired approach to portable power that...

What if you could refuel your car at a restaurant instead of a gas station? Some enterprising environmentalists...

Computers are hard on the environment - from their materials and manufacture to their energy use and ultimate disposal....

Looking for a fun way to teach energy conservation to your kids? Check out the Power Hog, an adorably pig-shaped...

In a city covered by over 4,000 square miles of asphalt and cinder block, the green roof movement may have just...

One of fifty top entries in this year's Greener Gadgets Design Competition, Vincent Gerkens' Blight offers a brilliant...