Managing with its small amount of resources and increasing demand for fuels, Japan is one of those countries of the world that largely depends on renewable sources for energy consumption. No wonder this yearning led the country to launch an audacious multi-billion dollar eco-friendly concept, the Space Solar Power System (SSPS) that would take form [...]

Villages and woods are probably the only places in the world where greenery hasn’t become extinct yet.  Even these  are facing depletion these days. Considering this, the developers of a mixed-use urban village, Mueller in Austin, Texas wished to preserve the lush green surroundings barring its industrial feel. And that is how Austin got its [...]

London’s largest airport is looking forwards to the start of construction of its new Terminal 2 as per the plans designed by Foster + Partners and under development by Ferrovial Agroman and Laing O’Rourke’s joint partnership company HETCo. The Terminal 2 expected to cost around £1 billion would play the new domicile for the Star [...]

Developing and designing artifical trees is quite high on the green agenda of most eco-friendly architects and researchers; for one cannot deny that actual trees are still being felled down to make space for the concrete jungle. These synethetic replacements of the green faithful beings shall perform the same functions like a natural tree and [...]

The human race moving on electric vehicles is a pretty green sight  but is it really enough to overcome the the delicate balance achieved by our dwindling forests? And that’s where enter designer Neville Mars who has thought of a novel way to combat the threats of deforestations.  His is an incredible EV charging station [...]

There have been many concepts and projects in the past that worked on generating water from air, but most of them confined to catering to the domestic needs. For the first time ever, researchers at Fraunhofer Institute led by Siegfried Egner, head of the department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB) [...]

Yet another airship is getting ready to flutter across the English Channel to prove its competence, but this time it’s the sun propelling it. A group of engineering and tech students from France has been working on Project Sol’R have surfaced a solar blimp, which they expect to fly across the English Channel.

The dirigible measuring [...]

The round the globe balloon-traveler duo Swiss scientist-adventurer and pilot Bertrand Piccard and Briton Brian Jones are planning another pace-setting joy ride, but this time it would be the newly divulged HB-SIA aka ‘Solar Impulse’, an airplane powered by the sun. A decade after their first non-stop flight around the world in a hot air [...]

We have just discovered a cool fireplace that can be placed both indoor or outdoor. It’s called “EcoSmart Fire Q”. This is an award winning modern fireplace, which is portable, pivoting and futuristic as well. Its design is pretty simple but nevertheless it looks very cool. It has a ventless EcoSmart Burner and hence, you [...]

See the wind glow as it blows. This is exactly what Tom Lawton’s Firewinder does. This groundbreaking eco-designed light senses subtle variations in wind speed and enables you to visualize the energy of the wind from over a distance of 250 meters through its 14 ultra bright LED lights. The sculpturally designed outdoor light is [...]