Eco Factor: Sustainable office design includes large fan and skylight powered by solar energy.
Tilted facades enveloped in shimmering glass characterize modern office building just about everywhere. Treading a different path Olson Kundig…
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Eco Factor: Surround sound speaker system harvests solar energy.
Industrial designer Pedro Gomes is trying to better the experience of your portable media player by designing a portable speaker set for music lovers. The portable device, dubbed Eco.
Eco Ball surround sound speaker system gets powered by solar energy Read More »
Eco Factor: Water-powered hotel uses energy-efficient strategies to make itself sustainable.
RAU and Powerhouse Company have planned a sustainable luxury hotel for Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The high-tech building design is powered by water and..
H20tel: Water powered, carbon neutral, net zero hotel for modern world Read More »
Eco Factor: Solar electric powered rickshaw for green postal delivery in India.
A rickshaw that was developed back in 2008 has impressed the Indian Postal department to such an extent that it is now being launched as a green postal delivery…
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Eco Factor: Eco town to offer high quality, sustainable homes for greener lifestyle.
Thought the reduction in government funding for the eco-town may have come as a setback for the Mid-Cornwall project, but it hasn’t wiped away their enthusiasm..
Six architectural schemes chosen for Mid-Cornwall Clay Country eco-town Read More »
Eco Factor: Eco-friendly library designed to obtain LEED certification.
Knowledge is the biggest power and gaining is sitting inside a building boasting its green credentials is a different feeling altogether. An eco-friendly library has been…
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Eco Factor: Sustainable lamp powered by renewable solar energy.
Solar-powered lamps seem highly practical, as they can sit out in the sun during the day and after dark, when we need them, they can be brought indoors to illuminate. The folks over..
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Eco Factor: Airport luggage carrying trolley powered by a zero-emission electric engine.
Vehicle designer Anupam Singh Parihar has conceptualized the Togian, a zero-emission airport luggage trolley carrier that is powered by an electric engine….
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Eco Factor: Apache powered by blend of sustainable biofuel and jet fuel.
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has recently conducted a successful flight test of the Apache helicopter, during which one of the helicopter’s two engines was powered by…
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Eco Factor: Ethanol generated from throwaway coffee cups.
Researchers at the University of Manitoba seem eager reduce our dependence on food crops for biofuel production. They have decided to squeeze biofuel out of the most unlikely products,…
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