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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..

Eco Factor: Cell phone with 15%reduced carbon footprint.

The latest addition to Sony Ericsson’s Green Heart line deserves appreciation. Called the Cedar, this cell phone is designed to have an ever smaller carbon footprint, reduced by at least..

Eco- Factor: Self sustaining environmentally friendly agro urban settlement

Khataba is a self sustaining agro urban eco-system by Italian designer Marian Colleti planned to house and meet food and energy production and consumption needs of Nile…

Eco Factor: Sculpture created from trashed cellphones.

The figures associated with cellphones are quite startling for any eco-conscious individual – the total number of cellphone users in the world is about 3.3 billion and more than 1.2 billion.