Eco Factor: Bike parking features solar panel system. The fact that Nordic countries, especially Denmark, have shown a peculiar fondness to environmental friendly bike transportation over decades has inspired Spanish architectural designer Nazli...

Eco Factor: Concept SUV runs on bio-diesel/electric hybrid engine. Conceived by Portuguese automotive designer Marcelo Aguiar, a.k.a. marceloaguiar, Element-C is a sports utility vehicle concept that relies on a bio-diesel/electric hybrid engine for...

Well, if you think that Audi is doing it for promoting the A3 TDI or for endorsing RenDiesel, you are on the wrong page for sure. In fact, Audi will drive the biodiesel car down California Coast as part of Green Car Journal’s Green Car of the Year...

Panasonic and Sanyo have launched the Everleds Lithium-ion Solar Street Light that produces 15 hours of light during night on a day’s charging. The street light combines solar cells and lithium-ion batteries (attached to the back of the panel) for...

Eco Factor: Vessel made from sustainable materials gets powered with recycled vegetable oil. Australian eco-sailor Inigo Wijnen has created a fossil-fuel-free yacht, dubbed as Gaiasdream, for a trans-Pacific expedition this December. The twin-hulled...

Eco Factor: Residential towers with common green space. When asked to design a residential complex for Songdo Landmark City, Seoul, the NY-based architecture firm REX came up with some really anemic skyscrapers. The towers, called Block A4, jointly...

Eco Factor: Bridge designed to harness solar energy for supporting utilities over it. A 1080-meter bridge over the Han River, which is named after the Korean video and media artist Nam June Paik, will soon connect the Dang-Li power plant with the...

Designed by Korean designer Jihae Kim, the Wind Heater utilizes wind energy to cook food and provide heating for those desert-dwellers who have to rely on trees for the same. The green design was one among various entries at the prestigious IIDA...

Extending its rendezvous with environmentally friendly plastics, Toyota now plans to darn its vehicles with a new bio-PET-based Ecological Plastic. It will soon make inroads into Toyota vehicles as liner material or other interior surfaces. The...

Eco Factor: Energy-efficient house gets powered by renewable solar energy. The Department of Energy has just recently approved Team Tennessee Living Light’s Request for Proposal and the Competitive Stage Schematic Design for the 2011 Solar...