Advertising firms are always finding new ways to grab our attention. One Dutch company is using an environmentally-safe method to temporarily tag the sidewalks.

A groundbreaking cost-cutting, energy-saving program in Germany called Dial4Light requires pedestrians to activate street lights using their cell phones.

We've all had to make do with whatever was available from time to time. But these ingenious hacks turn available materials into impressively useful items.

Lean, mean and sometimes even green, concept motorcycles often make us what to head out on the highway. Here are 20 of the most bad-ass bikes to hope for in 2010.

From the best in pugilistic umbrella-mayhem to the sweetest way to woo a loved one, these 15 examples are guaranteed to chase the clouds away.

From cybernetic contact lenses to contraptions that shoot you up to rooftops in seconds, these 15 futuristic gadgets would make even Batman jealous.

Brad Pitt's Make it Right Foundation is in the process of building modern, green, storm-resistant homes in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward.

Cities take centuries to evolve - or do they? Here are 12 urban centres that offer a radical alternative to tradition - they are cities from the first day they open for business.

Wash this space! Turning on the creative faucet gives "brain drain" a whole new meaning - as illustrated by these 15 sink-ly spectacular washbasins.

From floating eco-cities to sustainable skyscraper farms, modular folding origamic architecture to gigantic green super-spires, here are 24 future green designs.

Green art and design - from transforming green boxes to rotating dome homes, creative eco-art to exotic eco-landscapes and tree houses to tree sculptures.

From human-powered to coffee-powered here are fifteen curious green vehicle designs that break with conventions to go green in unique and innovative ways.

As the world increasingly focuses on sustainable initiatives, green architecture is a booming industry.

Green architecture comes in many forms though lately it seems like these forms are stranger than ever.

A basic earthen structure is formed and finished by traditional clay-firing processes - like pottery on a massive scale to build abodes for long-term desert living.