The all-new NS 999 prototype battery-powered train is a 1,500-horsepower plug-in locomotive anticipating cleaner transportation down the rails at Norfolk Southern Corp. Equipped with a string of 1,080 lead-acid energy storage systems, its 12-volt...

These portable speakers by OrigAudio, made from recycled material, will surely sing to your tunes if you are a music lover and a green trekker too. The Fold n’ Play self-powered speakers come packaged in recycled materials. Since they require zero...

Making the best possible use of a $14,500 grant from the Snohomish County Public Utility District and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, the Stanwood High School’s agriculture department has installed a solar panel in the agriculture compound...

Having won an international design competition a full three years back, the Grant Associates, award winning architects Wilkinson Eyre and structural engineers Atelier 10 now reveal the master-plan for the Singapore’s largest garden project alongside...

Adhering to the Massachusetts’s Clean Energy Biofuels Act completely, the Boston University begins recycling the waste cooking oil to heat thirteen of university’s buildings. Each year, the BU produces 5,000 gallons of cooking oil waste. This...

At the fifth AltWheels Fleet Day exposition in Framingham, a hydraulic truck stands proud among the most posh and dirt free cars. The Staples Inc. fleet is all praises for their cleanest ever refuse truck called Peterbilt dump truck. The electrically...

The world’s largest footbridge i.e. the $63.3 million Kurilpa Bridge or the Tank Street Bridge has been officially unveiled in Brisbane, Queensland. Having 84 solar panels to power its LED lighting up to 75% normally and 100% in most lighting...

We are so dependent on petroleum-derived polystyrene for packaging that we generally sideline its negative impact on the environment. Suggesting a better alternative, Gregory M. Glenn, the plant physiologist at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS)...

Emerging out of the boondocks, San Diego’s Biotech Beach thrashes those doubters who generally sideline bio-fuel production from algae as a beachcomber’s fantasy. Nothing will come out of nothing is what they hold and believe. However, we have...

The University of Texas research team headed by Dr. Walter Hu hopes to make solar cells for cellphones, laptops and other mobile gadgets quite affordable in utilizing nanoimprint lithography. While utilizing the imprinting technology, the team will...