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Eco Factor: Mixed-use skyscraper with a vertical farm.

“Urban Farm, Urban Epicenter” proposal by Jung Min Nam is an urban and social vision from architectural realm in response to the increasing concern for urban farming in a sustainable way..

Eco Factor: Grimshaw designs power plant to convert waste into electricity.

Despite many efforts of residents and manufacturers to reduce, reuse and recycle waste, there is always a significant amount of waste that cannot be dealt with in this…

Eco Factor: All terrain bike is made from attic waste.

Bike hacker Peter Wagner’s wildly creative instinct has surfaced yet again to turn a zillion heads around. This bike is the latest fling to join a string of clinkering products knocked off..

Eco Factor: Nanostructure with less semiconductor material can reduce cost of solar energy.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have created a novel nanostructure that could lead to low cost solar cells for cost-efficient solar..

Eco Factor: Researchers develop MOF-200 achieving world record for carbon dioxide storage capacity.

Chemists from UCLA and South Korea have created MOFs, or metal-organic frameworks, that have achieved the world record in porosity and carbon…

Eco Factor: Zero-emission motorcycle powered by electric motors.

It has been three years since Brammo unveiled its groundbreaking consumer electricity motorcycle, the Enertia. Costing $12,000 the Enertia was capable of hitting a top speed of…

Eco Factor: Toyota to develop all electric sportscar with Tesla.

Rumors are ripe around Toyota racking its brain to work out an all-electric super sports car program of its own with the help from its new partner, Tesla. It is believed that the…

Eco Factor: Eco-friendly energy concept stores waste heat in ground and reuses for heating in winter.

It gets unbearable to stand the baking heat during the summers. What if there was a way to utilize what we hate the most to make our dwelling…

Eco Factor: Teens construct solar-powered wooden homes for the homeless.

Humanity and eco-consciousness is what we have to learn from a group of students from Seminole Vocational Education Center. The students learned carpentry and electrician…

Eco Factor: Luxurious high-speed train concept offers low-carbon, sustainable transport.

Britain’s leading transport designer Paul Priestman of Priestmangoode has unveiled a conceptual high-speed train for the UK. Expected to be the Great…