Archive : Green News

As the already congested streets of the 21st century metropolitans become more overwhelmed with street traffic, more and more people are now taking to bicycles for their day to day commute. Inspired from this new trend, Ryan Rzepecki, an urban planner from New York has now come out with a highly innovative concept of Sobi (Social Bicycles) that is [...]

Trek Aerospace, a largely underrated aerospace company largely renowned for its duct fan technology has now announced that it will be investing its resources in the design and development of an eco-friendly hybrid flying car. Environmentally friendly vehicles are nothing new in this tech driven age, however, the concept of a flying car that will be [...]

The world as we know it now is literally in redemption, striving to correct the wrongs it has done, especially when it comes to the steady destruction of our environment and in this respect numerous companies across the globe are now finding innovative means of eco-friendly operations. Once such firm, Torresol Energy, a collaboration between Spain’s [...]

Just before a the opening of the prestigious 2011 Paris Air Show, one of the foremost names in aviation, EADS, which is also the parent company of Airbus had announced that in the next four decades, it plans to introduce a hypersonic passenger plane. Now, hot on the heels of this incredible announcement, EADS has come out with yet another marvelous [...]

Come 2011 Paris Air Show, the world will witness a remarkable advancement in eco-friendly aviation as one of the newest freighter planes from Boeing, the 747-8 Freighter will attempt to make a landmark cross Atlantic flight using only biofuel. This remarkable attempt is expected to raise awareness for the need of eco-friendly fuel for the aviation [...]

One of the foremost low-cost airlines in the U.S, Virgin America has now invested a sum of $1.4 billion in a bid to usher in a new era of highly fuel efficient engines for its fleet of civilian aircraft. This high price investment has been made in the next generation state of the art LEAP engines that will take their place in the company’s fleet [...]

Believe it or not, the world’s leading Internet search provider, Google Inc. is also now said to be running the largest corporate electric vehicle charging network in the world, as per a recent revelation by Google itself. As of now, the Google headquarter is comprised of some 200 electric vehicle (EV) chargers and the search behemoth has reportedly [...]

Today marks a day of celebration and jubilation for the one striving to become the vanguard to a revolution of epic proportions in the form of the fusion of renewable energy in our day to day lives. The immensely famous solar powered airplane from Solar Impulse had today successfully completed its maiden international flight by touching down at Brussels [...]

The much talked about and highly anticipated solar powered airplane from Solar Impulse is now gearing up for its maiden international flight from Brussels, before this aircraft is finally rolled out for its ambitious flight across the globe scheduled in the year 2012. The setting for the international flight comes just a short time after this one [...]

One of the leading names in the hospitality industry, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, is now going down the eco-friendly road as the organization has now come aboard the ‘Clean The World’ initiative in an effort to contribute towards the conservation of the environment while offering the best of luxurious amenities to its guests. Starwood has announced [...]