As part of a commendable move (Ontario’s Electric Vehicle initiative) to support green transportation, the Ontario administration will issue green license plates for ecofriendly plug-in hybrids and battery-only powered cars. The standard...

The Nørreport Train Station, the center of public get-together in Copenhagen, is getting ready for a green makeover. Just recently, the Danish Architects COBE joined hands with Public Architects, Grontmij Carlbro and Bartenbach LichtLabor to develop...

Uprooted trees lying here and there might not interest anyone. But with a stroke of artistry, these can be transformed into fabulous works of art. Since it requires a lot of hard work to make them well turned out, the acceptable masterworks are vocal...

Well, it’s not as straight to grasp as it seems to be. In fact, what the Portable Light iTEACH Blanket proposes to bring about follows a via-path. The blanket will help native South Africans to charge their cellphones that will later spread the...

No, I am not talking about the laptop case, nor does the designer Je Sung Park suggest anything of it. Instead, it’s a conceptual disposable laptop to be made from recycled paper or pulp material. No plastic or metal, mind you. So, it’s going to...

The engineers at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering are working to harvest electricity from nature’s motions or even human actions, since these are the most abundant energy sources ever. They experimented to develop a device that could adapt to...

The db0 electric bike concept by ROBRADY design and Taiwanese manufacturer DK City that we covered almost a month back has been awarded a Gold Spark award in the Mobility category of this year’s Spark Awards. You can get sufficient info on the...

Iosa Ghini Associati has proposed its novel solar powered monorail system dubbed as the Energy Belt for the city of Bologna, Italy. Apart from being a visual treat, the 5084-meter-long track will connect the city center with the airport and the train...

I suppose you are familiar with the green maxim: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Now it is time to make another addition, i.e. Replant, to the aphorism. Coming from an Indonesian granny, Harini Bambang Wahono, now 78, the cliche has been successfully...

Chromate might be an excellent corrosion inhibitor but its toxicity is always questionable. Providing galvanizers with a better substitute i.e. Quench Coat, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)...