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Wednesday, Nov 18
Wood Clad Science Academy Showcases Sustainable Design - Inhabitat
Inhabitat (blog) Wood Clad Science Academy Showcases Sustainable Design Inhabitat (blog) In terms of sustainability, a solar hot water system is mounted on the roof of the building, and the pipes run openly throughout the building so students ...
Monday, Oct 12
Stadium Franco Sensi: Rome’s Solar-Powered Stadium
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Sunday, Oct 11
LG Unveils Solar Powered E-Book Reader
If we were stuck on a desert island with only one book, this recently unveiled solar e-book would be at the top of our list! Designed by LG Display, the sleek reader features a wafer-fin photovoltaic cell that provides it with a steady stream of solar energy. Whereas most e-books run the risk...
Friday, Oct 9
Solar Decathlon 2009 Kicks Off TODAY in Washington DC!
Post tags: "sustainable architecture", energy efficient housing, green design, Solar Decathlon, solar decathlon 2009, SOLAR HOMES, solar house, solar house" title="Solar Decathlon 2009, solar powered homes, solar powered house, solar powered residence, sun powered homes, sus...
Thursday, Oct 8
Populous Wins Incheon Stadium Design for 2014 Asian Games
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Bay Line: A High Line Park for San Francisco’s Bay Bridge
San Francisco’s Bay Bridge is currently undergoing a massive renovation as an aging section of the East Bay span is replaced with a new one, and the old conduit has fired up architects’ imaginations for new ways to use the soon-to-be abandoned space. Inspired by the success of New York’s re...
Hopworksfiets Bike is a Pedal-Powered Party
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Wednesday, Oct 7
Green Roofs Are Changing the Way Architects Design Buildings
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SolarHeart Generates Energy and Heat in Cold Climates
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GREEN TALKS: Meet the Inhabitat Editors and Win A Biomega Folding Bike!
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Tuesday, Oct 6
Solé Power Tiles: Curved Solar Shingles Make Installation Easy
While scientists work to increase the efficiency of photovoltaics, designers are striving to make them sleeker, more adaptive, and easier to install. Case in point: SRS Energy’s Solé Power Tile, a beautiful solar shingle that is designed to fit into standard Mission style roofs while g...
Brad Pitt Unveils Flood-Surviving Float House for Make It Right Foundation
Brad Pitt has been making waves in the green building world lately, so it’s only appropriate that the newest house completed for his Make It Right Foundation project be a floating one. Being revealed today in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, the Float House by Morphosis Architects, goes bey...
E-Wolf Unveils Stunning All-Electric Supercar
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Monday, Oct 5
San Francisco Set to Harness the Power of the Bay
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New Super Efficient Pharox 60 LED Bulbs Last for 25 Years
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Friday, Oct 2
Introducing Inhabitat’s Green Talks Webcast Series!
Announcing Green Talks! Starting next week, Inhabitat will be hosting a series of webcasts with sustainability luminaries from across the US, and we want you to join in the conversation! These interactive online meet-ups will focus on green architecture and design in three cities tha...
Thursday, Oct 1
Biomega’s Boston Folding Bike: World’s First Theft-Proof Bicycle?
Any big city resident can attest to the issue of rampant bike thefts — most of us have have experience with at least a wheel being stolen. The only solution up until now been to ride around on a cheap bike, but the Biomega Boston folding bicycle changes all that with a virtually theft-proof des...
Ultra Adaptable Green Horizon Prefab Debuts at West Coast Green!
Today is the first day of West Coast Green, and this year’s showhouse is a stunner! Designed by San Francisco-based Green Horizon, the self-sustaining prefab home is an immediately deployable emergency shelter that can be configured to adapt to a remarkable range of situations. By focu...
Wednesday, Sep 30
West Coast Green Kicks off Tomorrow!
REGISTER FOR WEST COAST GREEN 2009 > Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Architecture, conference, Exhibition, Green Building, green design, Sustainability, sustainable design, trade show, west coast green 2009
Tuesday, Sep 29
Design Revolution book launch at the Cooper-Hewitt October 6th
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A Better World by Design Conference Kicks Off This Weekend!
Heads up green designers, entrepreneurs, and forward thinkers from all disciplines! This weekend sustainability luminaries from around the world are convening in in Providence, Rhode Island for A Better World by Design, a conference demonstrating how design, technology, and ente...
Researchers Generate Biofuel from Tuberculosis Bacteria
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Fastest Hydrogen Car in the World Smashes 300MPH Record
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Monday, Sep 28
Art and Design Converge at the 2009 London Design Festival
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BOOK REVIEW: $20 per Gallon
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Sleek Sink/Toilet Combo is an All-in-One Greywater Recycling System
We spotted this fancy multi-tasking toilet/sink by Roca at the London Design Festival. It’s obviously compact and perfect for any loft space or small apartment, and its sleek design houses a nifty self-contained greywater system that is capable of reducing water use by up to 25% compare...
SonUmbra Solar Powered Tree Lights up the Night
As advancements in lighting technology unveil fresh materials, we’re thrilled to see designers exploring new ways to light up the night. SonUmbra is a solar-powered tree composed of strands of light-emitting fabric woven into a lucent web of branches. The installation’s canopy of phot...
Sunday, Sep 27
The GreenShows Give Eco Fashion a Destination at New York Fashion Week
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Friday, Sep 25
Win a Free West Coast Green Tradeshow Pass!
Heads up all readers in the San Francisco Bay Area! West Coast Green is just one week away, and we’re giving away free tradeshow floor passes to 20 lucky readers! These passes are your gateway to over 280 exhibitors and 12 demo sessions showcasing the greatest green building developments...
Thursday, Sep 24
Ancient Church Renovated into Modern Bookstore
Whether you’re religious or not, this old Dominican church will certainly bring you the enlightenment you’ve been seeking. After months of renovation this magnificent structure originally constructed in 1294 has opened its doors to the public as a “brand new” bookstore in the heart of...
Wednesday, Sep 23
First Electric Vehicle Charging Corridor Installed Between SF and LA
One of the biggest problems with electric vehicle technology is the lack of a plug-in infrastructure on our roads. But that problem is about to disappear — at least for some commuters on Highway 101 going between San Francisco and Los Angeles — thanks to a so-called “electric highway” of fi...
Tuesday, Sep 22
Urban Infill Strikes Gold in San Francisco
Of all the pads chosen for this year’s AIA San Francisco Living: Home Tours, only one found me smiling from start to finish. I wondered why as I wandered through this intriguing Glen Park residence… suddenly, on an upstairs landing, I spied a strange note stuck inside a fire-engine red Roya...
Monday, Sep 21
Carbon Nanotubes Could Create Better Solar Cells
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Friday, Sep 18
Stunning Victorian Renovation Showcases Decades of SF History
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Thursday, Sep 17
London Design Festival 2009: Greengaged
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LSarc’s Randall House Bridges Indoors and Outdoors
One of our favorite projects from last weekend’s AIA Homes Tours was the Randall House in Glen Park, by LSarc design team. The site, typical of San Francisco contours, slopes nearly four stories from front to back making the rear lower floors a challenge to daylight. The architects did a stu...
Wednesday, Sep 16
Farewell And Thank You From Jason Sahler
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Jason Sahler, and for the last year and half I have been behind the scenes of Inhabitat making sure it runs as smoothly as possible. Now the time has come for me to say farewell and I wanted to thank Jill, the Inhabitat team and YOU, the readers who make...
West Coast Green 2009 is Two Weeks Away!
Heads up all Bay Area green building buffs – West Coast Green 2009 is just two week’s away, and tickets are selling fast! Taking place from October 1-3 at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center, this year’s program promises another star-studded lineup of speakers, an inspiring series of pane...
Ames Cottage: A Small Space Marvel with Historic Roots
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New Envion Facility Turns Plastic Waste into $10/Barrel Fuel
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Tuesday, Sep 15
Steven Holl’s Green Linked Hybrid Housing Complex Opens!
Sitting on the outskirts of Beijing, Steven Holl’s eco city-within-a-city is now accepting more than 2,500 new residents. Featured previously on Inhabitat, Holl’s Linked Hybrid Development is a completely self-contained housing complex that features of one of the largest geotherm...
Warehouse Renovation Showcases Sustainable Materials
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150mph Electric Motorcycle Smashes World Speed Record
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Panasonic’s New LED Bulbs Shine for 19 Years
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Sietch Nevada: Desert Oasis for a Drought-Stricken Future
Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: aquifer, Architecture, cavern, cellular cavern, Drought, dune, green design, sietch, sustainable design, undergound city, underground caves, water, water storage
Monday, Sep 14
Germany to Create Countrywide Hydrogen Fuel Network by 2015
When it comes to the future of automotive technology, electric cars get the lion’s share of the attention. But hydrogen-powered vehicles are slowly gaining traction, first with an announcement last week that auto companies are spending billions on fuel cell vehicles, and now with news...
urbanSHED: Design a Better Sidewalk Shed and Win $10,000!
Heads up all engineers, architects, and designers in NYC! The urbanSHED design competition is looking for a better sidewalk shed, and they’re giving away $25,000 in prizes plus the chance to construct the winning design! Anyone who’s every visited a dense city is likely to be familiar w...
Found Cutlery Made from Recycled Plastic Bottles
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Colossal Green Volcano Building Rises in Italy
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Thursday, Sep 10
Odds & Ends Recycled Furniture Changes the Value of Trash
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INTRODUCING: Inhabitat LOCAL!
HEY NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO READERS! We’ve got some exciting news for you! Recognizing that many of our readers (and many of our writers) are concentrated in New York City and in the San Francisco Bay Area – we’ve decided to launch city-specific versions of Inhabitat to those of you in...
Researchers Create Electric Circuit That Runs On Tree Power
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Treasure Island Reveals New Sustainable Development Plan
This week the Architecture + The City Festival took us to Treasure Island for an upclose view of the proposed sustainable development plan and a not so shabby panoramic view of the whole San Francisco Bay Area. We found that the entire place is steeped in future plans and the island is a keyst...
Monday, Aug 31
Copenhagen Design Week 2009 Kicks into Gear!
Fans of fine Scandinavian design rejoice - Copenhagen Design Week is currently taking Denmark by storm and Inhabitat is on the scene to bring you all of the freshest designs and most exciting events! Running from August 27 - September 6th, this annual celebration of social and environme...
Friday, Jul 31
REBURBIA COMPETITION ENDS TODAY: LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES!
LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES! We’ve received hundreds of submissions to our REBURBIA design competition but there is still time to get yours in if you haven’t already! Do you have an idea that could change the dismal future of our suburbs? It could be exactly the one that we’re looking for and win y...
Tuesday, Jul 28
BMW’s Stunning Energy-Efficient Production Plant
In a perfect world we’d all be getting back to our zero energy, prefabricated homes by foot, bike or public transport, but on a planet where cars won’t be disappearing anytime soon, it’s nice to know that some car companies are trying to reduce their carbon footprint when producing new veh...
Monday, Jul 27
DEADLINE to enter ReBURBIA Competition is THIS FRIDAY!
REMINDER: The Deadline to enter the REBURBIA Design Contest is THIS FRIDAY - July 31st! If you’ve been reading Inhabitat this summer, by now hopefully you have heard about our REBURBIA contest. If you are interested in entering the design contest for a chance to win fortune and fame - the de...
Thursday, Jul 23
REBURBIA Design Competition Closes Next Week!
REMINDER: The Deadline for REBURBIA Design Contest is July 31st! Anyone who has been watching the subprime mortgage meltdown take over sprawling suburban communities while greenhouse gas emissions continue to accelerate would say that the future of suburbia looks bleak. That’s why w...
Monday, Jul 20
Green Skyscrapers Unveiled for China’s Raffles City
Dutch architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio recently unveiled a new set of elegantly twisting sustainable skyscrapers that will grace the skyline of Hangzou, China by 2012. Dubbed Raffles City, the design features two 60-story tall buildings set near the Qiangtan River in the captial ci...
Thursday, Jul 16
REMINDER: Enter the ReBURBIA Design Competition!
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Thursday, Jul 9
Announcing: The Comcast Town Design Contest Winner!
Well, it is our sincerest pleasure to announce that the winner of the Comcast Town Interior Design Contest is… none other than Howard J Dudy! Howard delivered a stunning performance with the design of his own tropical paradise, complete with aquarium, beautiful hardwood floors, and a l...
Monday, Jul 6
Opinion: SPACE Architects’ Efizia Tower LEEDs Mexico City in Green Design
Permalink | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Architecture, awards, Competitions, Efizia Tower, Green Building, green roofs, high-rise building, Juan Carlos Baumgartner, Latin America, mexico city, Recycled Materials, SPACE Architects + Planners, sustainable design
Monday, Jun 29
PG&E’s Solar Powered Sound System Rocks Novato Wine Festival
Our inhabitat founder and editor-in-chief, Jill Fehrenbacher, grew up in the small, sleepy Northern California town of Novato - so you can imagine how excited she was when we heard that a solar-powered eco event was coming to Novato! Jill unfortunately couldn’t make the solar-powered...
Thursday, Jun 4
Tom Price’s Melted Polyester Fleece Chairs
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Monday, Jun 1
Naomi Dean Gives Reclaimed Office Furniture New Life
Office furniture often gets sent to die in a dark, damp landfill, where it remains for much longer than we care to admit. It tends to be cheap, molded, made from particle board and sometimes includes formaldehyde. Since we can’t unmake these items, the next best thing is to recycle them into u...
World’s Largest Laser to Attempt Nuclear Fusion
Laser enthusiasts everywhere, rejoice. California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just unveiled its $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility, a 10 story building as wide as three football fields that contains the world’s largest laser. When it goes online the facility will f...
Tuesday, May 26
Stunning Steel Foil Buildings Cut Material Use
The Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Wales recently opened eight stunning crumpled steel buildings that utilize an innovative construction method to keep their material use to a minimum. Conceived by design/build team Heatherwick Studio, the special cladding system was installed on-sit...
Thursday, May 21
Pratt Students Design For One Dollar
Post tags: design for a dollar, eco design, green design, icff 2009, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Pratt Institute, Pratt Students Design For One Dollar, reclaimed design, recycled design, sustainable design, thrift design, thrifty design
Friday, May 15
Links Roundup of the Week: Graduation
Urban Omnibus looks at Columbia architecture students’ Imagining Recovery competition, a design competition that examines how design and policy can work together. Post tags: college graduation, design college, Design Education, design schools, student design, sustainable desi...
Tuesday, May 12
Create a Virtual Room in Comcast Town and Win a Real Remodel!
The contest deadline is Thursday May 14th at 11:59 PST, so submit your design today! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: comcast town contest, industrial design, interior design, Renovation, room remodel, sustainable design
Friday, May 8
Links Roundup of the Week: We
Archinect shares the local architecture firms recognized by The Architectural League of New York in the League’s Emerging Voices lecture series. We saw two that claim that sustainability is a key principle! Post tags: design week, new york city design, sustainable design
Friday, Jan 2
Opinion: GREEN DESIGN PREDICTIONS FOR 2009
As much as I love it, prefab is dead for a while, or at least in hibernation. It thrived when labor was expensive and hard to find; now trades are available and the prefab factories are already closing down. It will also collide with a bigger trend toward localism: support your local plumber an...
