Eco Factor: Low-energy timber house powered by solar and wind energy.
Cyril-Emmanuel Issanchou has come up with a low-energy timber house for the competition BETWIN. Dubbed EC*-Cocoon, the low energy houses are prefabricated modules that are…
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Eco Factor: Airship powered by the power of the wind.
High flyer Stéphane Rousson is planning to fly a wind-powered airship across a stretch of Mediterranean waters. Dubbed the Zeppy 3, the airship will include 200sqm of helium and will use only.
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Eco Factor: Island to be made using plastic waste collected from North Pacific Gyre.
While companies like Electrolux are trying to convert ocean trash into vacuum cleaners, architectural firms like WHIM Architecture are proposing a gigantic…
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Eco Factor: Minimalistic Gravity Vehicle feeds on the sun to aid your transportation.
When it comes to transportation or moving around in the cities, it is difficult and it drains the life out of you, the vehicle and not to forget the environment,.
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Eco Factor: In Hedgehog, the rainwater + gray water = service water supply
Designed by Cheungvogl architects, the Hedgehog concept of building is wrapped with the a skin that has been made of high gloss finished PVC sticks. These sticks, owing to..
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Eco Factor: Giant turtle shell made from industrial trash cans.
Art is by far the best way to express ones emotions. So, what better way to show your concern for “Mother Nature”. Brian Jungen, one of Canada’s most promising young artists has…
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Eco Factor: Sustainable building powered by solar/hydrogen energy.
Australian architecture firm Cox Architects has designed the country’s first zero-emission self-powered teaching and research building. The $32 million Sir Samuel Griffith…
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Eco Factor: Concept skyscraper uses algae to purify air.
The City Respiration Skyscraper by Czech architects Pavlína Doležalová and Jan Smékal is a 240m tall skyscraper that has been designed to bring fresh air back into the world’s…
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Eco Factor: Solar photovoltaic power plant to generate up to 3MW of renewable electrical power.
The Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) has installed India’s largest solar photovoltaic power plant at Yalesandra village in Kolar district..
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Eco Factor: Zero-emission electric Mototaxis developed for Peru.
Two-stroke engines are both polluting and noisy and that’s the reason why an ingenious professor at the University of San Marcos has created a solar panel retrofit for a two-stroke.
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