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PICS: The Best Green Designs from the New York International Gift Fair

Read the rest of PICS: The Best Green Designs from the New York International Gift Fair Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 3-Pocket Billfold, Amanda Coen, card wallet, eco design, eco-friendly, First World Trash, green design, hand made, inhabitat, inhabitat nyc, Javitz Center, Jetsam, Laura Skelton, new york city, new york international gift fair, ny... weiterlesen...

London’s First Zero-Emission Electric Taxis Hit the Streets

When it comes to clean transportation, London is charging ahead at maximum speed – not only is the city’s mayor a cycling enthusiast, but he helped to push the introduction of London’s first hydrogen fuel cell taxis just in time for the 2012 Olympics! This week The Big Smoke rolled out their first fleet of zero emission taxis, which are now making their way ac... weiterlesen...

London’s First Zero-Emission Electric Taxis Hit the Streets

When it comes to clean transportation, London is charging ahead at maximum speed – not only is the city’s mayor a cycling enthusiast, but he helped to push the introduction of London’s first hydrogen fuel cell taxis just in time for the 2012 Olympics! This week The Big Smoke rolled out their first fleet of zero emission taxis, which are now making their way ac... weiterlesen...

On the Road » Best of Paris: 2012 Maison & Objet

by Kelsey KeithMaison & Objet, the annual winter design show in Paris, ended last week, and it's taken seven whole days to catch our collective breath and clean off our camera's memory card. The immeubles shown at Maison sweep across eight airplane-hangar-sized buildings in a convention center north of the ciy, and include everything in the world of "déco," ... weiterlesen...

Siemens’ Middle East Headquarters Will Be An Energy Efficient Model for Masdar City

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Cadmium Spill in China’s Liu River Threatens to Contaminate Water Supply for 3 Million People

A cadmium spill in the Liu River of southern China has police and emergency personnel scrambling to clean and protect the water supply of a major city in its path. Despite three previous clean up efforts, the contaminated water is still flowing toward Liuzhou city in Guangxi province, which is inhabited by over 3 million people. While chemicals and barges are being thrown into t... weiterlesen...

PHOTOS: Inhabitat Spends the Night in Quebec’s Hotel de Glace Ice Castle!

Read the rest of PHOTOS: Inhabitat Spends the Night in Quebec’s Hotel de Glace Ice Castle! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, green design, Hotel de Glace, ice bar, ice carvings, ice hotel, LED lights, quebec city, snow hotel, sustainable design, The Northern Quebec, winter hotel weiterlesen...

Top 6 Green Skyscrapers in New York City!

As one of the greenest citites in the nation, New York City is known as being a sustainable urban trail blazer, whether it’s through turning aging infrastructure into world class parks or passing groundbreaking green building legislation. So it’s no surprise that the Big Apple is filled with sustainable architecture, but you may not realize that many of the cityR... weiterlesen...

Rollerhaus Re-imagines Chicago as a Futuristic Eco Metropolis

Through an extremely in-depth report, paired with dazzling visual representations, design and think tank group Rollerhaus imagined an eco-centric future vision of Chicago that is without cars, with new systems for energy and water, and built in a whole new architectural language. Their project was started in response to the Living Future Institute’s Living Cities competiti... weiterlesen...

Made in Forest Hills: Bow Ties Recycled From Trash, Inspired by MoMA

If you’re trying to amp up your wardrobe with a unique flair, we might have just the thing.  Made in Forest Hills, founded by recycling connoisseur Nicholas Ruiz, is a collection of some of the most interesting bow ties we’ve ever seen! This “Bow Tie Collection,” is a series of 11 ties inspired by different exhibits at MoMA over the course of 2011 and made from... weiterlesen...

Stacy Levy’s Tide Flowers Bloom With the Rising Waters of the Hudson River

Even when you’re in a city surrounded by water, the movement of tides can become invisible. Artist Stacy Levy took the fluctuation of tides and amplified them with a series of giant Tide Flowers. Created to “bloom” around abandoned posts of long-gone piers, these blossoms wilt at low tide and open fully at high tide, creating a whimsical commentary on a very po... weiterlesen...

Architecture » New Piano for Gardner Museum

by Kelsey KeithBoston's venerable Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum—founded in 1903 by a lady art patron and obsessive collector of antiquities—has been one of the city's crown cultural jewels for the past century, so taking on a contemporary expansion that would double it in size was no easy feat. Lucky for the Gardner, Italian architect Renzo Piano was up for the tas... weiterlesen...

Global Green to Give 8 US Cities Free Sustainability Consultations

Supporting model green communities across the US, Global Green USA has announced it will give eight communities a free design consultation over the next six months. Each of the chosen neighborhoods will recieve a 3-day visit from four sustainability experts who will give a comprehensive review and recommendations about how to improve infrastructure and urban design. The suggesti... weiterlesen...

Floating Pool To Filter Prague’s Polluted River For Swimmers

How a floating pool could help filter this city's contaminated waters so residents can once again enjoy them. weiterlesen...

Backstory » Dwell Home Venice: Part 3

by Michael SylvesterIn this series, Sebastian Mariscal designs a home in Venice, California, that brings the outside in. We track the project from start to finish with future resident Michael Sylvester. Part 3, February 2011: Refining the design. Sebastian Mariscal updates the original design to incorporate city requirements, client feedback, and some additional design r... weiterlesen...

HOK Teams Up With USGBC to Unveil Sustainable Orphanage and Children’s Center for Haiti

The U.S. Green Building Council recently announced that it has selected HOK as an official design partner for Project Haiti – a building designed to LEED Platinum principles that will replace a Port-au-Prince orphanage and children’s center devastated by the 2010 earthquake. The new structure will provide a safe, healthy home for the kids of the Fondation Enfant Jesus o... weiterlesen...

The Prius C is Coming to U.S. this Spring, Priced Below $19,000

It should have a MSRP below $19,000 and get an EPA fuel economy rating of 53 MPG city/46 MPG highway/50 MPG combined, which would give it the highest city fuel economy of any vehicle without a plug, beating its Prius parent. weiterlesen...

Announcing the Winners of Inhabitat’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards!

AND THE READERS HAVE SPOKEN! For the last two weeks, Inhabitat readers have been weighing in and voting on their favorite green stories of 2011. From a high tech beehive designed for city dwellers to a towering vertical forest set in the heart of Milan to our exclusive coverage of the opening of NYC’s Highline 2, there were plenty of great stories to choose from. But which... weiterlesen...

Creating Public Green Space on a Lake in One of the World’s Densest Slums

Built on a lake in a slum in the rapidly growing city of Dhaka, the Platform of Hope is a public space, playground, library and community garden. weiterlesen...

Brooks + Scarpa Unveil Airy Cloud-Like Renovation For the Kimball Art Center

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