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Eco Factor: Bicycle design by Team Tentakulus.

While bicycle designers are working out their nights to integrate sophisticated systems into their designer bikes, a simple question does lurk in every mature mind – Is there any need to make bikes..

Eco Factor: Low-emission camping RV generates solar and wind energy, harnesses rainwater.

It sometimes is amazing to see what people can do when they’ve no one to talk with. After remaining speechless for a month, Brian Brawdy, an avid camper,…

Eco Factor: Solar-powered lamp utilizes the sun to sterilize your home’s interiors.

Apart from bringing warmth and light to your home’s interiors, sunlight also sterilizes your home with ultraviolet light. However, since in most modern homes…

Eco Factor: $1.5 million solar project to power offices and homes.

T’Sou-ke First Nation has launched the largest solar power project in British Columbia, which will generate enough power to energize its band office, fisheries buildings, canoe…

Eco Factor: Suntech Power Holdings to develop four solar plants in China.

Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd has announced that they’ve reached agreements to develop four solar power plants in China, which collectively will generate 1.8GW of green…

Eco Factor: Concept car powered by electric motors.

The fast paced world of today will definitely need an even faster car to commute in the future. When futuristic cars are the question, designers try out their skills to design vehicles that…

Eco Factor: Concept bike powered by electricity.

Of the hundreds of reasons people aren’t actually keen on commuting to the office on bikes, the major issue is their sluggish speed and arriving to work laden in sweat. Industrial designer Chris…

Eco Factor: Zero-emission car generates renewable energy for power.

We all love electric cars, but not as much as Iowa-based Joseph Rush, who has taken this passion too far to create an electric car which is powered by solar and wind energy. Of…

Eco Factor: Running shoes equipped with electroluminescent polymers powered by piezoelectric generators.

If you’re a fitness freak but don’t always want to carry a flashlight to illuminate your way after dark, industrial designer Alberto…

Eco Factor: Onion waste transformed into electricity, heat and cattle feed.

Gills Onions, the nation’s largest processor of fresh onions, has built an anaerobic digester system at its Oxnard, California facility, which will help the company…