Fuel economy, nil emissions, use of green materials, and state-of-the-art design: you just name any of these features, and you will find them all in the Toyota NORI concept car. Recently showcased at the LA Auto Show’s 2010 Design Challenge, the...

Eco Factor: Sustainable building to utilize green technologies to tackle high humidity. Foster + Partners have started work on a 300,000-square-metre, mixed-use development in Vietnam, which is their first project in the country. Dubbed as the...

Eco Factor: Zero-emission concept car designed to run on electricity. At the LA Auto Show’s 2010 Design Challenge, Mazda revealed its design for a futuristic, low weight, electric concept car. Designed for the year 2020, the all-electric Mazda MX-0...

Invading into the space for energy, gathering information about space-related phenomena, or manifestly for tourism, we seldom realize how radically such incursions could change the face of our planet. Researchers at the Aerospace Corporation in Los...

Eco Trans Alliance LLC and Cruise Car Inc. have pioneered solar electric trams in the Pelican Bay Community in Naples, Florida to help reduce the community’s transportation carbon footprint by over 22,000 pounds of CO2 a year. The new trams feature...

The Concrete Canvas Shelter, created by the UK-based company Concrete Canvas, is a sustainable, prefabricated refuge that relies on water and air for its construction. Two people can set up the heavy-duty shelter in less than two hours. So, these...

Eco Factor: World’s first mass-produced plug-in electric vehicle for Korean market. While highlighting its three green vehicle models at the Shanghai Expo, General Motors announced that it considers Korea as a follow-up market for the world’s...

Eco Factor: Solar photovoltaic facility produces up to 80 megawatts of electricity. Clearly eclipsing the 60 MW Olmedilla Photovoltaic Park in Spain with a more quantifiable solar power generation capacity, the Sarnia Solar facility in Ontario has...

Eco Factor: LED bulbs employ jet technology to do away with thermal problems. Making headway into the CFL’s market, the folks at General Electric are coming up with eco-innovations in sustainable LED technology on quite a regular basis now. Where...

It has not been a fortnight since we told you about Emergent Architecture’s proposal of creating a green Pop Music Center in Kaohsiung. Now this time, a team of creatives at I.A. Lab of Taiwan University recommends to develop the pioneering...