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Eco Factor: Solar-powered smart windows to cool your home at the touch of a button.

No matter how small or big your apartment is, windows always play a significant role in keeping indoor air clean and breathable at all times. Apart from…

Eco Factor: Water conserving dishwasher.

Technology has undoubtedly made our life easy, but that ease comes at the cost of energy and water, something that needs to be conserved for a better tomorrow. We all have been so accustomed to small yet…

Eco Factor: Solar-powered gadget battery charger.

USB chargers are nothing new to the electronic industry, but there are not many that come with green aesthetics. Making the best use of CeBIT 2009, companies from all over the world launched their..

Eco Factor: Alarm clock powered by solar energy.

For those of you always keen to know about the latest discoveries of NASA every morning, Klaus Rosburg of Sonic Design has developed the MIR solar-powered alarm clock inspired from an orbiting…

Eco Factor: Lighting system powered by solar cells.

You might be having tens of emergency lighting systems and torches, but in case of a power failure, they are either hard to find or are mostly out of batteries. Solar-powered lights do well when..

Eco Factor: Toilet converts human waste into clean compost.

In a bid to conserve water and make your home as environmentally responsible as possible, Sun-Mar has launched the Excel Composting-Toilet, which uses no water and converts waste into…

Eco Factor: Low-carbon bio-fuel made from coffee.

Caffeine is not considered great for your health, but it can do wonders for the environment, your pocket and your car if new research conducted by researchers at the University of Nevada at Reno is.

Eco Factor: Boat made from recycled plastic bottles.

The brainchild of David de Rothschild, The Plastiki Expedition is a daring plan to sail across the Pacific from San Francisco to Sydney, a distance of over 12,000 nautical miles, in a boat made..

It’s a cruel thing to say… but if we are looking at a slowdown in the economy, there will be less fossil fuels burning, so for the climate it could be an advantage.
– Paul Crutzen, Nobel Prize-winning Chemist.

Well, this is true. However, if..

Eco Factor: Recycled objects sculpted into pieces of art.

Recycled art is nothing new on Ecofriend, but we just can’t let our eyes off objects reincarnated from things we usually throw in our trash bags. Yuken Teryua is another artist from Japan.