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Call for Entries – Designs Inspired by ‘Intelligent Mobility’ (and Featuring Environmental Sensitivity)

Annual global design challenge seeks submissions that consider the future of home appliances
Electrolux Design Lab 2011 invites Kiwi industrial design students and recent graduates of industrial design to compete for a six-month paid …

It’s in the Bag! A Simple, Energy Saving Cooking Idea

By Tish North
I want to tell you about a product that I have developed that can help you save power when cooking. It’s called a Haylo Bag and it’s based on an idea that I …

Permaculture and Transition Towns Meet New Brighton – By Rebecca May

The recycled envelope hanging out of my letterbox told me already that this was the package I was waiting for.  My Permaculture Design Course handbook had arrived.
When I was 14 I decided to become a …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#63 – Inhabit.com’s Sustainable Design Spring Greening Winner: Sarah Turner

Yay!  The winner of Inhabit.com’s recent Spring Greening Competition designer Sarah Turner has agreed to feature in my e-book.  Here are some questions and answers (that I think may have already been published on inhabit.com) with Sarah, who …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#58 – The Buckminster Fuller Institute

www.inhabitat.com is my favourite website.  Full stop.  I can’t check out their weekly newsletter without feeling 100% pure hope.  They’ve just announced the winners of the Buckminster Fuller Institute 2010 Challenge (who wins US$100,000. I …

Designers Invited to Shed Light on Greener Future

Press Release – Massey University
WWF-New Zealand has teamed up with Massey University and some of the country’s leading designers, architects and artists to launch an innovative new green design competition as part of this year’s …

If ecological design were widely adopted…, by Joanna Pearsall and Bryan Innes – Permaculture.org

If ecological design were widely adopted…, by Joanna Pearsall and Bryan Innes

Recently we (Joanna Pearsall and Bryan Innes)have been thinking about and discussing what would it look like if the principles of permaculture were …