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Chevy Volt Jolts Public Debate With 230MPG Claim
GM recently made waves for claiming that its new electric Volt gets 230 mpg, but the magic number seems more like 40. That’s because miles per gallon really only matter when a gas engine combusts. The...
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Gorgeous Wooden Bicycles by Renovo
Two grand for a bicycle? Just reading Renovo‘s quietly beautiful narrative of how they handcraft wooden bikes is worth every penny. Based in Portland, Ore., this family-owned business takes wood...
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Infinium Sun Car Races Ahead
In a converted warehouse on the outskirts of Ann Arbor (Michigan’s other city), swarms of brilliant students harness conceptual, terrestrial and solar power for unusually racy, million-dollar road...
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Formula Zero: Hydrogen Cell Racing Takes Off
Belgium recently took the lead among a set of top university teams vying for “zeroth place” in the Formula Zero European Championship of hydrogen fuel cell cars. This carbon-free Grand Prix injects...
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Refract House | Solar Decathlon + Architecture City
Project managers open the doors to Refract House, ready for Solar Decathlon 2009, Photo by Kevin Gardner What happens when an architect and an engineer walk into a Jesuit university in Silicon Valley...
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Solarthon 2009: Low-Income Families Get GRID Alternatives
GRID Alternatives will lead 200+ community and industry volunteers to install sixteen 1.8-kilowatt solar electric systems in their annual Solarthon this Saturday, September 12th, 2009 at Habitat for...
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Top 5 Alternative Autos From the Frankfurt Motor Show
The Frankfurt International Motor Show or Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA) is the world’s largest car show, and we were thrilled to discover a slew of incredibly clean machines this year....
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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…...
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Tiny Sheds Do More For Less
There’s a tiny shed subculture growing, and you may find one sprouting in your own backyard. This prototype from Modern Cabana showed up recently at a San Francisco garden store, which also hosted a...
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Solar Home Tours Sweep United States TODAY!
Imagine 3,000 communities and 10,000 volunteers across the country in a one-day celebration of solar power. That’s why we are reminding you that the American Solar Energy Society kicks off their 14th...
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Schoolhouse Rock Reaps Platinum Town Center
In California, one district’s fault is another town’s treasure. When the Portola Valley School District realized its mid-century single-room schoolhouse straddled the San Andreas Fault — known for its...
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Fountainhead Reposited: Water Island is an Exercise in Filtration
Synch your workout with a little river detox, then rehydrate with a cup of the fresh water you just filtered. This people-powered water purification island, designed by Jakub Szczesny as part of the...
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Small Wind Turbine Wings Like a Bee
The Birds and the Bees have inspired one startup to send forth a hovering turbine. Green Wavelength, “committed to finding ways of applying nature’s solutions to our man-made energy problems,”...
View ArticleBrilliant Bottle Bank Arcade Makes Recycling Fun
The Bottle Bank Arcade is a recycling bin that encourages a higher rate of returns by rewarding bottle recyclers with musical notes and tons of fun. It’s one of several kooky and kinetic entries in...
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UrbanBuds: Soiled Suitcases Grow Food
Gionata Gatto, an Italian designer based in the Netherlands, has soiled and seeded suitcases and such for gardening on the go. Designed as a graduation project, UrbanBuds enlivens luggage to grow up...
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Vancouver 2010 Promises Greenest Olympic Games Ever
From the world’s largest hydrogen bus fleet to a six-acre multi-use Olympic Oval, British Columbia appears determined to host the “greenest games ever” in Vancouver come February. The city has...
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TOP 6 GREEN TRANSPORTATION STORIES OF 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines! Inhabitat presents our Top 6 Transportation Stories from this past year in a tried-and-true package of trains, planes and automobiles. Keeping in mind common...
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ANDREA Reaches U.S. Houseplants to Filter Air
Why not accelerate the natural ability of plants to filter the air around us? As we reported in November, ANDREA by Le Laboratoire aims to do just that. This “living air cleaner” recently entered the...
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Recycled Windshield Greenhouse Grows More Glass
Recycled windshields are busting out of the woodwork, from French country gardens to swank sub/urban surfaces. The protective pupa shown here (“la serre” is French for “greenhouse”) transforms more...
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