Leather Lampshades by Pepe Heykoop
At Dutch Design Week designer Pepe Heykoop presents a collection of leather lampshades made by underprivileged women in Mumbai. More
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Món Petit by Miquel Merce Architect and MSB Workshop
Toys are displayed between steel fins at this second-hand shop in Andorra by Miquel Merce Architect and MSB Workshop. More
Fossilisation machine results by Austin Houldsworth
These photos from British designer Austin Houldsworth show the results of his machine, featured in our earlier story, built to fossilise a partridge (above) and a pineapple. More
Nespresso Battery by Mischer’Traxler
Vienna Design Week 2010: Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler made batteries from 700 used coffee capsules to power clocks installed in the window of Nespresso Austria during Vienna Design Week. More
Grand Crus Cup Parade by Dottings
Vienna Design Week: Vienna designers Dottings presented a series of coffee cups made of recycled aluminium coffee capsules for coffee brand Nespresso in Vienna last week. More
Nokia E-Cu by Patrick Hyland
This mobile phone concept by London designer Patrick Hyland can be charged by the heat in your pocket. More
Design Help by A1 Architects
A collective of young architects and designers from AlArchitects of Prague have designed a range of jewellery made from recycled medical waste. More
Plumen 001 by Hulger
London design brand Hulger has launched Plumen, a product it describes as "the world's first designer low-energy light bulb". More
Bags by Maam Project
Here's another project using old carpets (see our earlier post on a chair made of rolled-up carpet), this time handbags by Spanish initiative Maam Project, manufactured by prisoners. More
Rrround by Arttu Kuisma and Janne Melajoki
Finnish Lahti University of Applied Sciences students Arttu Kuisma and Janne Melajoki have rolled up 250 square-metres of recycled carpet to create this multicoloured chair. More
Spontaneous City in the Tree of Heavenby London Fieldworks
These bird and bug boxes have been installed by art and architecture collective London Fieldworks around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing. More
Cancer City by Visiondivision
Swedish architects Visiondivision have created this undulating concrete habitat for crayfish in a stream in Sweden. More
Watt-Lite by the Interactive Institute
Loove Broms and Li Jönsson of Sweden's Interactive Institute have devised a system of lamps that visually indicate a factory's energy consumption through spotlights. More
8 House by BIG
This residential building in Copenhagen with sloping green roofs by Danish architects BIG will be completed in October, and has just won the 2010 Scandinavian Green Roof Award. More
Movie: The Transcendent City by Richard Hardy
Bartlett School of Architecture graduate Richard Hardy has shared with us his short film imagining an autonomous, artificially intelligent, sustainable city More
Products of Silviculture by Sebastian Cox
University of Lincoln graduate Sebastian Cox has made a range of furniture from unseasoned coppiced hazel wood. More
Aerogenerator X by Grimshaw and Arup
London architects Grimshaw and engineers Arup have unveiled this design for an offshore wind turbine. More
Movie: Sustainability at New Designers
In this movie made to coincide with the Design Museum's Sustainable Futures exhibition, exhibitors at London graduate show New Designers talk about their views on green design. More
Competition: five copies of the Green Dream to be won
We've got together with Dutch architects MVRDV to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Green Dream - How Future Cities Can Outsmart Nature, written by The Why Factory foundation. More
Plastiki Expedition boat by Exploration Architecture for Adventure Ecology
A boat made of plastic bottles designed by Exploration Architecture is nearing the end of its journey across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Sydney to highlight pollution of the seas. More