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Eco Factor: Electronic piggybank sensitizes kids to energy costs.

Kids learn things faster than humans, and in an effort to sensitize kids to rising energy costs and educate them on the benefits of energy savings, designer Mathieu Zastawny and his.

Eco Factor: Zero emission water cruiser.

Daniel Nätterdal’s new design concept aims to green those weekend waterway trips on an electric boat made from recycled materials and bio-plastic. Dubbed The Manta Bay Cruiser, the plastic components are.

Eco Factor: New external hard drive for Mac reduces energy consumption.

Western Digital has launched an energy-efficient external hard drive formatted for Mac. My Book Studio Edition II, as the hard drive is christened, offers a gigantic 2TB of…

Eco Factor: Tabletop barbeque made from recycled materials in a green workshop.

A certified blacksmith and an artist by nature, Bill Sorich has designed a tabletop barbeque for people with lots of money and respect for the environment. After 10…

Eco Factor: Solar installation at The Athenian School for renewable energy.

REC Solar has finished installing 1300 PV panels at The Athenian School, finalizing an arrangement that will generate 220KW of green electric power. The PV panels are…

Eco Factor: Energy-efficient lighting systems for parking lots.

According to a study conducted by U.S. Department of Energy, only 4% of the parking lot lights in the United States are fluorescent based and the other 96% are based on conventional…

Eco Factor: World’s fastest electric motorcycle.

Speed and range have always been two constraints in the global adoption of electric cars and motorcycles. Shelby Motors recently announced the world’s fastest electric car, the Aero EV, and now..

Eco Factor: Zero-emission car powered by electric engine.

While cars powered by solar electricity still remain a designer’s wild dream, car manufacturers know the importance of good old electricity in greening our planet. One group working on…

Eco Factor: SES unit refitted and installed by recycling the previous unit.

A new rescue unit from Gloucester SES is on the road once again. What interested me most is that it’s a recycled version of the earlier unit. It’s a truck that is…

Eco Factor: Solar-powered pathway lights.

In the future people will have to make use of renewable forms of energy such as sun and wind to keep their walkways in good shape. Wind energy systems are not really portable, hence solar energy will have..