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Eco Factor: Eco-friendly vacuum cleaners to be made from recycled materials.

The Pacific Ocean is polluted with the largest floating garbage islands in the world. Electrolux intends to gather plastic from the world’s oceans and turn it into a…

Eco Factor: Low-emission race car powered by hydrogen.

Hessgen has mixed race fuel with hydrogen to power a 700hp Trophy Truck on the roughest 500-mile course in history. Dubbed Eco Race Car #88, the vehicle was a testament of complete…

Eco Factor: Eco-friendly sculptures created from old newspapers.

Eco-conscious American artist Nick Georgiou’s sculptures make us believe that newspapers aren’t just for reading, as the designer is recycling old newspapers and transforming…

Eco Factor- Zero energy house with lowest possible carbon foot print.

Building a zero energy house for cold and frigid climes of Finland with wide annual variations in sunlight is challenging and hard to attain. However, Team Finland from Aalto…

Eco Factor: Hydrokinetic river turbine generates up to 25KW of renewable electrical power.

The remote town of Eagle, Alaska has installed a new hydrokinetic river turbine that generates all the power the small village needs from renewable…

Eco Factor: High-efficiency solar cell technology increases solar cell efficiency.

Sun Power Corporation has yet again successfully maintained its lead in manufacturing the world’s highest efficiency solar cells. The Silicon Valley-based…

Eco Factor: Artwork created from discarded CDs.

Artist Bruce Munro has reused about one million unwanted compact discs to create a shimmering inland sea at Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire, England. Apart from some local collections, the massive sea..

Eco Factor: Zero-emission scooter powered by electricity.

ZEV known to give the world the fastest electric motor scooters has recently unveiled the world’s first street legal electric trail and dirt road motor scooter. Sporting a very unique…

Eco Factor: Eco-friendly glazing with heat-storing phase-change material creates a passive solar-control mechanism.

GlassX AG, a Swiss company has developed a new type of eco-friendly glazing that was introduced to the North American market at the.

Eco Factor: Ford to electrify 25 percent of its vehicles in next ten years.

Ford, one of the first companies on the market with a hybrid vehicle is all geared up to initiate the alternative power revolution. The company aims to push 25 percent of..