Our favorite links from from around the Web this week:

+ Apartment Therapy tips us off to this plugless sink. You have to manually tip the basin over to empty it—a visual reminder of how much water you’re using.

+ Check out dezeen’s review of Idea of a Tree, a solar-powered machine that makes furniture based on available energy.

+ Visit One.org to sign a petition asking senators to sponsor the Water for the World Act of 2009, which aims to bring clean drinking water to 100 million people by 2015. Their goal is 50,000 signatures. And as we write this, they’re 73 percent there.

+ These Jill-able vases are eco-friendly, collapsible versions of vases that are made from recyclable plastic.

All eyes turn to New York in the first couple weeks of May, when the city is abuzz with heavy-hitting designs shows BKLYN Designs and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. We’re dedicating this edition of link love to New York’s design week.

+ Blogger-turned-director Grace Bonney shoots a two-part video series of her favorite products from BKLYN Designs.

+ MocoLoco turns us on to umproject’s Nebu Chandelier, constructed from reused cocktail glasses.

+ The Mother Nature Network admires Vexell’s new Green on Green outdoor furniture, made from recycled aluminum and natural stone.

+ Fast company notices a plethora of cardboard at ICFF, as designers trend toward cheap and reusable products to stay relevant in a down economy.

+ Inhabitat rounds-up the best of ICFF’s green designs, including this rainwater collector by Hero Design Lab.

Our favorite links from the week that was:

+ Apartment Therapy asks the question Can an iPhone app green your life? The app provides green tips according to criteria you set, and spits out precise equations for how each change, if implemented, will reduce your water, energy, and carbon footprint.

+ The Huffington Post reports on water footprints; and, of course, lively debate ensues.

+ Earth2Tech snaps photos of Japan’s first drive-through battery swap for electric vehicles.

+ Inhabitat turns us on to Xerox’s new printer ink, which can cut waste by 90 percent (but costs $24K?!).

Every now and then we like to throw a little love to our fellow green bloggers. Here’s a look our favorite stuff on the Web this week:

+ Materialicious discovered the Garden Street Loft project in Hoboken, a sustainable condo complex with a green roof and glass windows that help regulate temperature and reduce energy use.

+ Inhabitat bloggers are on the scene, reporting on eco-fashion from the Designers and Agents show in New York.

+ Aveda became the first company to earn cradle-to-cradle certification, awarded for seven of their products. (Via greenbiz)

+ The New York Times tipped us off to Broadway’s first green theater, built with recycled materials in the walls and waterless toilets in the restrooms.