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Polish Design Season: Polish design student Ryszard Rychlicki has designed a shopping bag made of folded recycled paper. More »

French automobile brand Renault are showing a range of electric concept cars at the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (Frankfurt Motor Show) in Germany this week. More »

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur and Harvard professor David Edwards have launched a filtration system which uses living plants to purify the air indoors. More »

Tokyo design brand Rezon have designed a cotton bag for people to wear over their heads when they see people exhibiting ungreen behaviour. More »

Dutch designer Enina Waelstham of Mormels Design has created a collection of lamps made by covering objects in recycled paper. More »

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 »