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Eco Factor: Art installation made from recycled plastic beer cups.

Apart from entertaining the visitors, the SF Outside Lands Concert ended with thousands of plastic beer cups needing a place to be safely disposed of. Designers tried to give all…

Eco Factor: Lawn equipment designed to be charged by solar energy.

While most of us live a life on gadgets that others have invented for us to use, there are some who do their bit for the environment and also show others a green way that should be.

Eco Factor: Concept yacht designed to be powered by solar energy.

A couple of days back we covered a pedal-powered concept boat for those who don’t mind sweating out to save a few gallons of fuel, and today we have a little more tech-favoring…

Eco Factor: Solar panels capable of harvesting artificial light developed by New Energy Technologies.

Installing rooftop solar panels to make a single home go off-grid is easy. However, using the same technique in skyscrapers isn’t feasible…

Eco Factor: Zero-emission pedal-powered boat concept.

We all love to spend our weekends on the lake, but mostly our rides to the open water aren’t green, and it does have an impact on the delicate marine ecosystem. Industrial designers have been.

Eco Factor: High-performance batteries made from algae.

Of all the materials that have been used to make batteries, algae seems the most uncommon, but scientists over at Uppsala University in Sweden have created a lightweight, flexible battery…

Eco Factor: Students convert 1972 MGB to run on electric motors.

Electric engineering students at the University of South Carolina’s college of Engineering have brought a vintage red MGB to the modern age by replacing its gasoline engine with a.

Eco Factor: Lightcatcher structure to bring in natural light and ventilation to the Whatcom Museum.

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects have designed the “Lightcatcher” at the Whatcom Museum in Seattle, which will add 42,000-square-feet of..

Eco Factor: Unique thin-film solar panels mounted on dual-axis trackers automatically align toward the sun.

Researchers predict that every hour the sun radiates more free energy than the entire human population uses in a year. Still, with all that.

Eco Factor: Furniture made from recycled garden waste.

While garden waste is no more than trash for most people, who mostly hide it behind a bunch of plants, Craig McPherson is one designer who brings this trash to the limelight in the form of…