Uncategorized

Eco Factor: Off-grid home generates solar energy, harvests rainwater.

LSarc Architects are working to give San Francisco its first totally energy neutral home, which is scheduled for construction in 2010. The house is powered by an eight kilowatt.

Eco Factor: Energy-saving LED lamp generates solar electricity.

Designers over at Vinaccia Integral Design earlier thrilled us with their Solar Modules, which could bring a curtain of sustainable lights to your home’s interiors, and now…

Eco Factor: Vertical farm feeds animals, saves water.

Paington Zoo Environmental Park in Devon is house to the world’s first vertical farm within a zoo. The VertiCrop Garden, as the system has been named, would provide fresh crops for the zoo…

Eco Factor: NASA to build new Sustainability Base with renewable energy harnessing capabilities.

NASA, a name synonymous with the most advanced technologies developed for man’s endeavor to reach unseen space, is now making some news on the…

Eco Factor: Solar and wind powered installation purifies air and provides cool air.

With the number of actual trees that are being cut down for wood and to provide space for urban architecture, researchers have focused their attention on…

Eco Factor: Cellphone made from bio-plastic materials produced from corn.

Samsung seems to have been working on ecofriendly cellphones quite seriously. Previously the company showcased its Blue Earth solar-powered phone, then the Samsung Crest,…

Eco Factor: Unmanned aerial system runs on hydrogen fuel cells.

Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies’ Aeropak system, which was touted to increase the flight endurance and range of UAVs, has been used by BlueBird Aero System in their latest invention..

Eco Factor: Living room made using recycled materials.

While architects are envisioning outdoor living rooms which come with all the latest gadgetry available on the market to make the inhabitants live with nature, Portland homeowners are doing…

Eco Factor: Zero-emission car powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

Even after being the most abundant element in the universe, auto engineers have had a hard time figuring out the best way to use hydrogen to power cars. We all know that cars powered by.

Eco Factor: Concept car powered by an electric engine.

Spanish auto designer Marco Aurelio Galán Henríquez, who earlier shared his Electric Hyperion concept car with us, is back again and this time with a more practical car concept, which he…