The Solar Sinter by Markus Kayser
Show RCA 2011: German designer Markus Kayser has built a 3D-printing machine that uses sunlight and sand to make glass objects in the desert. More
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SafetyNet by Dan Watson
Royal College of Art student Dan Watson has designed a trawling net that filters young and endangered fish from the catch. More
Catalytic Clothing by Helen Storey and Tony Ryan
This movie by Adam Mufti features supermodel Erin O'Connor wearing a dress that incorporates a catalytic converter. More
O’ Mighty Green by STAR Strategies + Architecture
Rotterdam studio STAR Strategies + Architecture have photoshopped green walls over images of iconic buildings to poke fun at the way architects believe cladding a building in plants makes it sustainable. More
Competition: five copies of Urban Orchard to be won
Competition: we have teamed up with The Architecture Foundation in London to give away five copies of their book Union Street Urban Orchard, which charts the transformation of a disused London plot into a public garden. More
Talamanca Cocoa by fuseproject
San Francisco designers fuseproject have designed packaging and a grating tool for hardened pure cacao, which is farmed among the natural ecosystem of the Costa Rican rainforest. More
Da Morto A Orto by Peter Bottazzi and Denise Bonapace
Milan 2011: Designers Peter Bottazzi and Denish Bonapace presented this exhibition of recycled furniture used as planters, in Milan earlier this month. More
Tree Tape by Nitipak Samsen
Designer Nitipak Samsen has created a measuring tape to translate the amount of carbon stored in a tree into the amount of carbon emitted by activities like breathing and car journeys. More
The Virgin Collection by OAT
Dutch company OAT have designed a range of biodegradable shoes with seeds embedded in the tongues. More
The Pond by Raw Edges
London designers Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay of Raw Edges created an animated pond at the Bloomberg offices in London using equipment the company had thrown away. More
Waste-to-Energy Plant by BIG
Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a power plant for Copenhagen with their design that will blow smoke rings and double up as a ski slope. More
Beautiful Planets by Béatrix Li-Chin Loos at Galerie Gosserez
German-Taiwanese designer Béatrix Li-Chin Loos has created this series of spherical vases from layers of scrap wood, glass, cardboard and leather. More
Relumine by Mischer’Traxler
Vienna designers Mischer’Traxler have created a series of lights where two found lamps share one fluorescent bulb. More
Trash Cube by Nicolas Le Moigne
This seat by Nicholas Le Moigne of Switzerland is made entirely of scrap fibre cement. More
Efficient Home by Mathieu Lehanneur for Schneider Electric
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a series of objects designed to monitor electricity consumption in the home for energy company Schneider Electric. More
The Tower of Droplets by Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham
This algae-producing tower designed by Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham of London studio CRAB came second in the recent Taiwan Tower Conceptual International Competition. More
Neorustica by Jahara Studio
Brazilian designer Brunno Jahara of Jahara Studio has created a collection of furniture made using scrap wood. More
Masdar Institute campus by Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners have completed the first of a cluster of buildings entirely powered by solar energy at Masdar City, a sustainable urban quarter in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. More
r2b2 by Christoph Thetard
German graduate designer Christoph Thetard has created a set of pedal-powered kitchen gadgets. More
Biomass by Ahhaproject
This rubbish bag by Ahhaproject of Milan and Seoul spells out how much energy the user can generate with each bag of kitchen waste collected. More