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Eco Factor: Bicycle design by Mardjetko Gonzalez and Jimena Guadalupe.

Riding a bike tens of miles to your office doesn’t sound like a practical way to reduce your carbon footprint. However, going to a market on a bike does seem green. Mardjetko.

Eco Factor: Solar cells for highways generate electricity for streetlights and construction.

Solaroad Technologies has developed new a kind of solar module for highways that can generate electricity even at night by converting light from…

Eco Factor: Chaise is made up of recycled poly.

Loll Designs, a Duluth, Minn., a company that makes eco-friendly outdoor furniture and accessories out of recycled high density polyethylene, the material in No. 2 plastics, has put forth its newest.

Eco Factor: Children’s hospital design by VisionDivision relies on natural resources for power and water.

Constantly battling with the water crisis and poverty, rural Africa needs architecture that makes the lives of the people easy by making…

Eco Factor: Company debuts the world’s most powerful solar cell.

While solar module manufacturers are battling hard to increase the output of solar cells even by one percent, Rainbow Solar Inc. has introduced the world’s most powerful silicon..

Eco Factor: UAV powered by Ascent Solar Technologies’ solar modules.

Bye Aerospace has announced that the company is developing a solar-powered UAV along with Ascent Solar Technologies that will be powered by a hybrid engine. The H-UAV will be…

Eco Factor: New products designed to help solar modules generate more output to be made available.

Generating renewable energy using solar panels would definitely reduce your carbon footprint. However, the reduction shows its effects on your…

Eco Factor: Real-time noise and air pollution monitors.

Getting information on the air quality of a particular city is not hard and there are many tools available to help you in that. However, if you’re in need of more particular data on a…

Eco Factor: Pedal-powered zero-emission car.

In a bid to reduce the amount of pollution produced by cars, manufacturers have developed several vehicles which run on everything from electricity to air. However, all these cars are mostly too…

Eco Factor: New glass seal makes solid oxide fuel cells more efficient.

Scientists from all over the world are attempting to innovate ways to harness alternative sources of energy. However, researchers at Virginia Tech are looking ahead to make…