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Here’s the third installment from the Oogst self-sufficient farming project by Dutch designers Tjep.: Oogst 1000 Wonderland, which features a farm, restaurant, hotel and amusement park designed to sustain 1,000 visitors a day. More »

Here is the second of three proposals by Dutch designers Tjep. for self-sufficient farms – this time aiming to to house and provide food for up to 100 people within a diametre of 400 metres. More »

Here is the first of three proposals by Dutch designers Tjep. for self-sufficient farms that provide inhabitants with everything they require, including energy, heat, oxygen, food and waste management. More »

Chulha, a cooking stove intended for use in the developing world by Philips Design, is among the winners of the Index Awards 2009, which were announced in Copenhagen last night. More »

Dezeenwire: the winners of Index Awards, the biannual global design prize that rewards designs that improve life, were announced in Copenhagen last night. Winners in the five categories (body, home, work, play and community) each earn €100,000. www.indexaward.dk

Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) have won a competition to design the urban centre of Masdar, a zero-carbon, zero-waste city to be built in the desert near Abu Dhabi. More »

London designer Gitta Gschwendtner has completed a wall that incorporates 1,000 nest boxes for birds and bats in Cardiff Bay, UK. More »

Copenhagen architect Morten Emil Engel has won a competition to design stools that will furnish an exhibition building by Japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow at the Krabbesholm Højskole in Skive, Denmark. More »

Artist Sighn has made fifty sets of fluorescent-painted cutouts saying “IT’S OK” as part of his limited edition of one million. More »

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San Francisco designer Yves Behar of fuseproject has designed a range of sustainable underwear for online clothing retailer PACT. More »

Japanese designer Ryohei Yoshiyuki has designed an ash tray made of used coffee grounds. More »

Designers The Functionality have built a canopy constructed from 2,452 newspaper hats. More »

Canadian architects Bricault Design have completed a plant-covered extension to a house in Venice, Los Angeles. More »

Swedish architect Anders Holmberg has designed four highly insulated houses in Stockholm, Sweden, that use the heat generated by people and appliances inside to keep them warm. More »

Oregon designers John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong of Studio Gorm have designed a kitchen where waste products are used to grow plants. More »