A team of high school students has developed what it claims is the most energy-efficient car in the world, an electric vehicle that reportedly gets the equivalent of 300 mpg. The school hopes to have it...
Cancer city rests in a stream, waiting for its inhabitants to arrive. Walking on the flawless craftsmanship just one week after inauguration they met one of the first inhabitants staring at them from its...
The Velantic concept yacht is the brainchild of designer Harry Wood who believes that green design does not have to be ugly and green credentials can be celebrated equally well in a sleek and...
The Brooklyn–based start-up SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology) was formed in 2005 by the brother and sister team of Samuel and Teresita Cochran. Their goal: to invent a hybrid new approach...
A simple power meter with a small screen to tell you how much energy the attached device is using. "The white and green adapter plugs in the wall between the gadget or appliance you want to track and...
Ian Wright left the electric car maker he helped found — Tesla — to create a company that builds high performance electric and hybrid race car technology. The result? His X1 electric racecar prototype,...
Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Richard Hardy has shared with us his short film imagining an autonomous, artificially intelligent, sustainable city.
The incredible concentric forms you see above are neither crop circles nor alien landings -- they are part and parcel of the world's largest artwork, which spans nine square miles! Jim Denevan, who...
What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets is a fascinating project telling the global story of our relationship to food through portraits of 80 people from 30 countries and the food they eat in one day.
A short film certainly a little raping, but produced like blockbusters, here’s Your Lucky Day, a short film for about a lottery ticket, a thief, a couple, a grandpa, but mostly a story that will turn into...
The Danish architectural firm Gottlieb Paludan has a wild idea for the storage of green power. Take the world’s most island-ridden areas and turn unused water-surrounded land into Green Power Islands. The...
The Solar Planter by designer Kevin Cheng is an innovative in-home planter that takes advantage of its natural environment and placement. The planter uses solar energy, as well as artificial lighting, to...
Forget about traditional tri-blade wind turbines — the ultra-efficient turbine of the future might look completely different if Kyushu University professor Yuji Ohya has anything to say about it. Ohya and...
The National Trust of Great Britain built ten wonderful oversized sofas and have placed them all over the UK to coax ‘wasters’ into getting out into the fresh air and sunshine this summer.
London recently saw the completion of the world's first skyscraper with wind turbines integrated directly within its building fabric -- the Strata tower. Nicknamed the Razor, the black and silver...
London Mayor Boris Johnson just announced the opening of two new "cycle superhighways" in the city. Each is five feet wide, has two lanes so as to accommodate traffic in both directions, and is...
GE Ecomagination has teamed up with the fuseproject design studio to create the WattStation, a next-generation electric vehicle charging station. Shunning the model of the traditional gas station, the...
We cover a lot of solar panel technologies here at Inhabitat — some are pie in the sky, some are a few years down the road and some are exciting products that are actually available today. SoloPower’s new...
When Humans Ruled The Earth is a short film animation that shows what consumption addiction has done to or against (depending on your worldview) our world. An insight into the human machine. Directed by...
What better way to manage coffee table clutter that with a table that doubles up as a paper shredder? Created by industrial design studio Pigeontail, the Papervore is hungry for all you printed leftovers.
"Alone Together" is an short film animated inspired by the song "Alone Together" by Chet Baker. This short film is directed by Marc Esteban, Jordi Matosas & Oriol Rello. Very nice...
BMW’s very first electric vehicle is on its way. The Megacity Vehicle, set to be released in 2013, is made out of lightweight carbon fiber and aluminum and will be built from the ground up using the...
NASA and Lockheed Martin just unveiled a design for an ultra-efficient aircraft dubbed the Supersonic Green Machine. Though there’s not much known about the craft at this point in time, it could prove to...
