Heads up green designers, entrepreneurs, and forward thinkers from all disciplines! This weekend sustainability luminaries from around the world are convening in in Providence, Rhode Island for A Better World by Design, a conference demonstrating how design, technology, and enterprise can be focused towards reshaping our communities and sustaining our environment. The event takes place at the campuses of Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design from Friday October 2nd – Sunday, October 4th.

We’re looking forward to talks by sustainability-focused architect Stefan Behnisch of Behnisch Architekten and Emily Pilloton of Project H Design, a live One Hour Design Challenge hosted by our friends at Core77, and the kickoff of Project M’s (blank)LAB tour. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity – check out the conference schedule for a full list of events and register today!

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Heads up all readers in the San Francisco Bay Area! West Coast Green is just one week away, and we’re giving away free tradeshow floor passes to 20 lucky readers! These passes are your gateway to over 280 exhibitors and 12 demo sessions showcasing the greatest green building developments around, and they’re good for all 3 days of the event. All you have to do to win is:

1. Sign up for the Inhabitat newsletter

2. Leave a comment below with your full name telling us why you’d like to go!

The first 20 responses win a tradeshow pass, so get cracking!

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Calling all New York Inhabitat readers!

We’re having a party this September to celebrate the arrival of fall and our BRAND NEW NYC WEBSITE INHABITATNYC, and we want YOU to join us! Come join us to sip organic cocktails, taste delicious organic chocolate, peruse eco goods at Green Depot, win green goodies in our raffle, and talk about sustainable design with the Inhabitat editors and readers. We need to get a head count for drinks and snacks, so if you are interested in coming, please let us know in the comments below, and please also RSVP to rsvp@inhabitat.com as soon as possible. Here are the details:

WHAT: Inhabitat New York launch party

WHERE: Green Depot NY Flagship Store, 222 Bowery, New York, NY 10012

WHEN: September 24, 2009 from 6-9pm

WHO: Inhabitat editors Jill, Yuka, Olivia, Rebecca, Kevin, Jasmin & YOU

HOW: If you would like to come please RSVP as soon as possible to rsvp@inhabitat.com

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Imagine a design exhibit design that’s completely recyclable. Transpose that vision to a set of artfully-arranged cardboard structures framing a large warehouse space, in a sunwashed wharf in glimmering Copenhagen. And that’d be ShowHow, one of the most genuinely sustainable of the many exhibits on display for Copenhagen Design Week.

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This past weekend the Outside Lands festival rocked San Francisco, drawing thousands of people to bask in the sunshine and music that filled Golden Gate Park. Greening an event as massive as a festival is no easy task, however one of the cornerstones of this year’s event was the PG&E sponsored Eco Lands, which created a verdant heart within the festival’s central meadow From a solar stage juiced by the sun’s rays, to an on-site organic farmers market, to an innovative array of recycling programs, read on for a review of Eco Lands’ greatest green merits.

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Bay Area architecture fans get ready to rock – today marks the start of the 2009 Architecture and the City Festival! We’re looking forward to an entire month packed full of fun events, and our San Francisco team will be hitting the streets to bring you up-to-the-minute coverage of our favorites. From Park(ing) Day 2009 to another amazing round of Living Home Tours to first-hand looks at groundbreaking new projects there’s tons to see and do, so be sure to check out the calendar and rsvp today – events are sure to fill up fast!

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How does urban space become a public place? How does design impact a space’s civic liveliness? On Monday, July 13, 2009, from 10 am to 1 pm, Diana Balmori and her NYC-based landscape and urban design firm Balmori Associates, will be unpacking these questions and other issues that surround place-making. 40 landscape architecture and architecture students will join Diana Balmori and Balmori Associates on Monday in the Meatpacking District to use the area as a case study to frame their discussion about public places. The conversation will stream online via tinychat and Twitter as Diana Balmori moderates along with Dutch landscape architect Erik de Jong. Balmori Associates is inviting everyone to share their insights on public places — so share yours today and see what others have to say on July 13!

See more information on facebook and join the conversation by following @balmorilab on Twitter with hashtag #mpplaces.

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In the midst of the current global economic crisis, many businesses stand to lose sight of sustainability goals as they focus upon the meeting the bottom line and keeping their staff in employment. However there has never been a more critical time for environmental policy, and the Guardian Climate Change Summit 2009 is a rallying call for businesses to move from environmental awareness to action in these tough economic times. Taking place in on June 15th at London’s Hotel Russell, the conference aims to inspire more businesses to prioritize the environment by showing that meeting the bottom line financially and keeping climate change high on the agenda are far from incompatible.

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The 2009 Emerging Technology Conference offered an incredible opportunity to catch some of the cutting edge ideas that are shaping the way we look at the world. Several recurrent green themes formed bridges between luminary speakers from a variety of backgrounds, as Alex Steffen, Mary Lou Jepsen, Jeremy Faludi, and others reinforced the need to create repairable, open-source, long lasting products, reveal energy usage, and pursue forward-thinking strategies for a greener tomorrow. Read on for our highlights from the conference!

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This year, designers like John Patrick Organic and Bodkin showed us that being sustainable can look really, really, good. And the momentum is building as more green fashion is hitting the pages of popular fashion magazines. But for someone new to the green scene, finding fabulous, eco-friendly fashions may not be as simple as it sounds. Which is precisely why model and eco-activist, Summer Rayne Oakes, decided to answer the call, with a one-stop, at your fingertips, chock full-of-pics green fashion directory entitled Style, Naturally: The Savvy Shopping Guide to Sustainable Fashion and Beauty.

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In less than 10 hours one of the biggest events in music history, Live Earth, is set to begin in Sydney. With an expected audience of over 2 billion people, the organizers of the event hope that this 24 hour worldwide concert will raise awareness on the issue of global warming and get people to take action in solving the climate crisis. Artists performing at the event range from Madonna and James Blunt at the London Event to Dave Matthews and the recently reunited The Police in the United States, and many many more! Check the website for the full lineup- the music starts tonight at 9:10pm EST!

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Sydney started it, with massive success, and now London is getting into the act. The Lights Out London campaign is inviting londoners to turn off their lights for one hour, between 9p.m. and 10p.m. on the 21st of June (the Summer Solstice). They are hoping to become the largest climate change event ever recorded whose only request is to switch off.

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