A cup of coffee by Ryohei Yoshiyuki
Japanese designer Ryohei Yoshiyuki has designed an ash tray made of used coffee grounds. More
Japanese designer Ryohei Yoshiyuki has designed an ash tray made of used coffee grounds. More
Designers The Functionality have built a canopy constructed from 2,452 newspaper hats. More
Canadian architects Bricault Design have completed a plant-covered extension to a house in Venice, Los Angeles. More
Swedish architect Anders Holmberg has designed four highly insulated houses in Stockholm, Sweden, that use the heat generated by people and appliances inside to keep them warm. More
Oregon designers John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong of Studio Gorm have designed a kitchen where waste products are used to grow plants. More
Graduate designer Daniel Rawlings has created a series of vases by heat-shrinking plastic tubing around broken crockery. More
Berlin architects J Mayer H have completed a permanent exhibition on sustainability for car brand Volkswagen's Autostadt visitor attraction at their factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. More
New Designers 09: Northumbria University graduate Jack Bresnahan exhibited a series of biodegradable, plastic lids for turning used tin cans into household containers at graduate show New Designers in London last week. More
Dubai architecture firm X-Architects have unveiled their masterplan for a sustainable urban development in the center of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. More
German Swiss bag brand Freitag have launched a limited edition range of bags made of used exhibition banners from leading art galleries and museums. More
Royal College of Art graduate Nitipak Samsen has designed a credit card-operated carbon-offsetting meter that attaches to trees. More
Royal College of Art graduate Fabien Cappello has created a collection of furniture from unwanted Christmas trees. More
Frank Gehry is one of 14 architects to have designed duplexes for Make it Right, the charity founded by actor Brad Pitt to develop new housing typologies for a hurricane-devastated district of New Orleans. More
Cape Town designers Animal Farm have produced an "organic lounger" made from woven branches that hangs in a tree and is reached by a rope ladder. More
Finnish architects C-Laboratory have completed a timber house on a cherry farm in the mountains of northern Taiwan. More
Dezeenwire: Sears Tower in Chicago is to undergo a $350 million green refit to "reduce the tower's electricity use by 80% and save 24 million gallons of water a year". The Guardian
French designer Benjamin Graindorge has designed a garden that floats on the surface of a fishtank and uses fish waste as fertiliser. More
Dutch interior architects i29 have completed an office suite for an advertising agency using used furniture bought from online auction sites and charity shops. More
DMY Berlin 09: Latvian designers Merci Design presented a range of children's furniture made of recycled paper pulp at DMY Youngsters in Berlin last week. More
More recycled work from Swiss designer Anne-Cécile Rappa: Najah, Lazara and Ilham are a series of lights made of found objects sheathed in knitted plastic bags. More