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If you thought electric cars were as eco-friendly as our car makers could get, then you are in for a pleasant surprise. Fuelled by a childhood fascination with mushrooms and an interesting college project, two amateur mycologists have created a…

An utterly ambitious conception with its entire propensity, the Voronoi skyscraper was one of the finalist entries for the 2011 eVolo Skyscraper competition. Contrived by a design team of André Serpa, Bernardo Daupiás Alves, Egle Bazaraite, Jutta…

Imagined as a rehabilitation tower, the Helios Rehab Sanctuary designed by Team CLS would be a space where the residents of San Francisco would gather together forming “communities of hope”. Ecologically sustainable cities are built with an eye…

Audi recently joined hands with Renovo Design, a Portland based firm famous for its wooden frame bikes, to not make cars but bicycles. Audi has decided to lend its name to the cycle industry. The domain of expertise would now be widened and newer…

Adroitly visualized by Loseva Larisa and Emtsov Sergey from Russia and ingeniously designed by Ivan Romanov, this is the wind-solar power generator Horizon. Utilizing the Magnus effect (whereby a spinning object flying in a fluid creates a whirlpool..

When a river flows into the sea, the mixing of fresh and salt water unleashes energy. A team of researchers from Stanford University has estimated that the electric power generated from this mixing could provide about 13 percent of the world’s…

Now you too can contribute to the much talked about green revolution. Here we are neither talking about solar panels nor wind mills. It’s all about human power. Have you ever thought how much of our energy is drained while working out in a gym? But no

Well, since human beings are constantly evolving, so are their inventions and innovations. The latest being the possibility of charging of an Apple iPod with your own heart. Sounds strange? It is, yet very realistic and practical. Nanotechnology or a.

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It is estimated that one fifth of the world’s population does not have access to safe drinking water. Well it may seem a bitter paradox especially in the context that – there are 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water on the planet,…

An eco-friendly, yet modern place in the lap of nature! This is the wonderful proposition set forth by Eriksson Architects. This company, based in Helsinki,develops environment friendly architectural designs. They have prepared the blue print for the.