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Eco Factor: Small wind turbine generates electricity at low wind speeds.

Wind energy does offer a promise to power your home with green electricity provided your house is on the countryside where skyscrapers don’t put breaks on speeding wind….

Eco Factor: Skyscraper with a rooftop-based ecosystem.

Whenever it comes to vertical farming, people mostly envision high-rise buildings where veggies are grown at different levels. Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter have a different thought to…

Eco Factor: Home built from trashed beer bottles.

We’ve probably seen hundreds of uses of old beer bottles, and though many DIYers plan out products that take no more than a few weeks to build there are more patient recyclers that opt for an…

Eco Factor: Helmets equipped with wind turbines to power a two-wheeler’s lights.

A team of students at Cheng Shiu University have developed a new helmet that generates wind electricity to power two-wheeler’s headlights, tail lights and…

Eco Factor: A series of lights made from recycled objects.

Anne-Cécile Rappa, a Swiss designer, has come up with a series of lights called Najah, Lazara and Ilham. These lights are made by enclosing objects in knitted plastic bags. These lights…

Eco Factor: Zero-emission bike powered by electricity.

The Eagle by JD Group is the newest entrant to the e-bike market, which is a one-of-a-kind bike designed especially for the green youth of today. The bike is technically sound and well…

Eco Factor: Interesting bookshelves made from skateboards.

Here comes a bookshelf that is unique, trendy and definitely original giving a stylish look to your wall. Designed interestingly these bookshelves will certainly grab a good deal of…

Eco Factor: Rainwater harvesting system made from recycled materials.

One thing that you’ll find in almost all developing nations is clogged drains and gutters laden with plastic bags. These plastic bags end up polluting freshwater sources,…

Eco Factor: Zero-emission car powered by electricity.

Mitsubishi Motors did its bit for the environment on the World Environment Day, by unveiling the production version of the i-MiEV new-generation electric vehicle, describing it as “the pioneer..

Eco Factor: Solar-powered system extracts water from humid air.

Access to clean drinking water is not as common as people living in urban areas think it to be. With billions of people thirsty for water, inventors had to design systems that can…