The Bottle Bank Arcade is a recycling bin that encourages a higher rate of returns by rewarding bottle recyclers with musical notes and tons of fun. It’s one of several kooky and kinetic entries in The Fun Theory competition, which will award £2500 ($4185) for the best idea that proves “fun is the easiest way to change people’s behavior … be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different.” Registration is currently open and the Contest closes Dec. 15, so enter your project today!

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Now that I’ve spent a bit of time with my Cobi chair, I feel it’s only fair that I tell you all a little about my experience. Long story short, I love it. It’s improved my working posture, comfort, and most importantly, my ability to sit at my desk for the entire workday. Most surprising of all, its balancing mechanisms, which are intended to focus on center of gravity rather than weight, actually work well. The chair comes in just about any color you could want, and SmartFurniture.com’s 3-Minute Design Tool makes it easy to get a little adventurous. Read on to see how you can win a Cobi chair of your own for free!

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Tired of trying to find an outlet to charge your cell phone, iPod, and computer while on the go? Then what you need is a solar powered bag to charge all your devices and free yourself from the grid. Our friends over at Planet Green are giving away 2 Voltaic Solar backpacks each week this summer, and all you have to do is enter you name to win one! The contest just started this month and runs through until December 8th, 2009, so enter today for a shot at winning one of these fantastic Voltaic Backpacks, which have 3 solar panels and are made with fabric from recycled plastic bottles.

ENTER TODAY AT PLANET GREEN >

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CONTEST CLOSES TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT!

Our Pimp my Eco-Ride Contest ends tomorrow, June 24th at midnight, which means there’s only a day left to enter and win this slick limited edition Strida 5.0 SX folding bicycle! All you have to do to enter is click the link below and submit a photo and comment convincing us why it should be yours, so don’t miss out on this chance to score this super-light folding bike worth $950!

ENTER OUR PIMP MY ECO-RIDE CONTEST >

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OUR PIMP MY ECO-RIDE CONTEST ENDS TOMORROW AT MIDNIGHT!

Our fabulous contest to the win this brand new STRiDA 5.0 SX Limited folding bike ends this Friday at 12am midnight, which means there’s still time to convince us why it should be yours! We’ve teamed up with Areaware to give away this amazing, lightweight bike that folds up in five seconds flat, and all you have to do to win it is upload a photo that explains why it should be yours!

Are you tired of your traffic snarled highway commute? Do you not have enough space to store a bike? Would you attract more ladies if you rode a bike? Tell us! To enter you must submit photographic evidence in the comments section of the ORIGINAL POST that explains why you need this slick bike valued at $950. Only submissions that include a picture will be considered.

TO ENTER:

1. Sign up for our newsletter

2. Leave a comment at the bottom of the original post, and upload a photo explaining why you need this fantastic folding bike! All photos must be sized to 537 pixels wide and should be under 100k in file size.

ENTER THE PIMP MY ECO-RIDE CONTEST >

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It’s already time for the One Good Chair Competition again, and this year we couldn’t be more excited about the theme – local and regional furniture. The annual competition, sponsored by The Sustainable Furnishings Council and World Market Center Las Vegas, will award fabulous cash prizes and publishing opportunities to the best and brightest designs that embody and enhance a particular place. So pick a place, any place, and design a chair that exemplifies it. Final registration for the competition closes this weekend on June 15th, so register today!

Read the rest of Register Now for the One Good Chair Competition!

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Hey lovely Inhabitat readers!

If you’ve been reading our website over the past week, you may have noticed that we are running a Summer giveaway contest with lots of great prizes to inspire you guys to sign up for our fabulous Inhabitat weekly newsletter. As if receiving our wondrous newsletter weren’t a prize enough in itself, we’re offering some special incentives this week to make signing up with us that much more appealing to you. We’re giving away a free solar power backpack by Voltaic Systems (value $250), some hand-crank LED emergency lanterns from Freeplay (value $45), and some lovely Inhabitat schwag, including our hand-printed organic T-shirts and tote bags (value $40).

The drawing for the grand-prize solar backpack may be random, but you can narrow your odds down to 100% and DEFINITELY win a t-shirt if you sign up for our newsletter right now >

SIGN UP NOW >

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