At this year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show, the Driving Green initiative will welcome a strange entry, i.e. Ford’s 1934 3-Window Coupe puffed up by Detroit Street Rods with a twin-turbo V6. Dubbed as EcoBoost, the highly...

Having a definite edge over traditional Lithium-ion batteries, ReVolt Technology’s zinc-air rechargeable batteries claim to be 300% more energy efficient than the former. The battery design, developed at SINTEF, a research institute in...

Zwarts & Jansma, architects from Amsterdam in New Zealand, have just recently procured the state-of-the-art design for the world’s largest indoor golf arena. The WAN Awards 2009 entrant design utilizes 14,000 sq. m of training facilities on...

Already leading from day two, the Tokai University solar car entry #60 Tokai Challenger has finally emerged victorious in the 2009 Global Green Challenge as it romped through the finish line just north of Adelaide at 3.39 p.m. SA Daylight Saving Time....

The International Day of Climate Action on October 24, 2009 got a tremendous response worldwide. The global campaign was organized by 350.org around a scientific data point that demands politicians and nations to adopt the 350 ppm of safe carbon...

Chirk Castle, built back in the late 13th century near Llangollen, has recently got its roof decked with solar panels. Now, with the sleek panels installed, the Castle will save 8,000 kw of energy a year. Especially during summers, the solar thermal...

Buena Vista artist Roberto Salas and the students of the Land Arts of the American West, an interdisciplinary field program based at the University of New Mexico, have transformed the concrete sidewalls of the West Side neighborhood in El Paso into a...

Germany-based Neuber has joined hands with Konarka Technologies, the U.S. based manufacturer of Power Plastic solar panels, to offer its latest series of solar charging bags. These bags are outfitted with low cost, lightweight, flexible and scalable...

After playing all sorts of high jinks with a working 37-year-old Volkswagen Beetle, the engineering students at the University of B.C., Vancouver, have finally decided to transform the gas-guzzler into an electric machine. They hope to drive the car...

Anyone with an eye for the natural world will surely appreciate the inherent, potential charisma of the forsaken, frozen pieces of vast glaciers floating above the waters. Since it is never possible for all to sense that enormity, grace and beauty in...