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Eco Gadgets: Aquaduct Bike purifies water with pedal-power!

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

EcoFactor: A uniquely designed bike with three wheels that purifies water by using the energy generated from the pedaling it. Modern designers are finding interesting...

Aquaduct Bike, Eco Gadgets, Water Purification, IDEO Designers

made popular 6 min ago

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Eco Energy: Denmark blows away fossil fuel usage with another offshore wind farm!

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

EcoFactor: Denmark is all set to boost its wind energy capability further with a new plant called Rodsand II slated for completion by 2010 and having a capacity of 207...

Siemens, E.ON, Offshore Wind Farms, Eco gadgets

made popular 18 min ago

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Eco Cars: Electric Porsche steals the spotlight with its electrifying looks

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

EcoFactor: Car modifier RUF Automobile rolls out a new electric version of the Porsche 911, which is not just a sizzling all-electric car but boasts of a performance to...

Eco Cars, Electric Cars, Porsche 911, Tesla Roadster

made popular 24 min ago

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Eco Gadgets: AlertMe’s Smart Plug makes you pay a heavy price for energy savings!

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

EcoFactor: A power consumption monitoring device that allows you to manage your power supply socket even from a remote source. AlertMe is launching its new Smart Plug...

Eco Gadgets, AlertMe, Smart Plug, Power Saving Gadgets

made popular 38 min ago

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Eco Recycling: Lost and Found - Upcycled furniture with thought-provoking form

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

EcoFactor: Upcycled furniture crafted from salvaged trash and wood stumps designed by &made help spread the concept of recycling with unique new designs. For...

Eco Recycling, &made, Recycling, Furniture

made popular 42 min ago

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Eco Gadgets: Energy Seed gives bright new LED-lit life to discarded batteries!

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

EcoFactor: A streetlight concept that uses discarded batteries with little juice left in them to power up brilliant LED lights and thereby reducing toxic waste. This...

LED, Eco Gadgets, Energy Seed, Lighting

made popular 48 min ago

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Mexican marijuana cartels sully US forests, parks

AP, Porterville

National forests and parks _ long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels _ have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America...

Pot, Environment, National, Mexican

made popular 3 hr. ago

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Eco DIY: Halloween ghosts go green with solar-powered pumpkin Jack-o-Lanterns

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

EcoFactor: Cool pumpkin Jack-o-Lanterns for this Halloween that allow you to capture the spooky spirits using solar power and LED lights. Halloween is not far away and...

Eco DIY, Pumpkin Jack-o-Lanterns, Halloween, Green Halloween

made popular 5 hr. ago

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Eco Energy: Ericsson’s Tower Tube cell towers go greener with integrated wind turbine

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

EcoFactor: The energy-efficient cell towers from Ericsson go further green by harnessing clean wind energy from integrated vertical wind turbines. Mobile network...

Eco Energy, Wind Turbines, Ericsson, Vertical wind Turbines

made popular 5 hr. ago

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Largest Wind Farm in SubSaharan Africa Planned for Ethiopia

Sanwali, Shimla

What do you do when you’re an African nation which relies nearly entirely on hydro power for your electricity, and you’re in the middle of a drought? If you’re...

African, Hydro Power, Drought, Wind Farm

made popular 10 hr. ago

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More than half of fauna in the Philippines nearly extinct

Grace, Quezon City

The Philippines is one of the top biodiversity hot spots, with 592 endemic species of amphibians, birds and mammals considered “threatened or endangered,” and 227...

Philippine biodiversity, endangered species, Red List, Environment

made popular 10 hr. ago

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Rare marine species discovered in the Philippines

Grace, Quezon City

A French-led marine expedition has discovered thousands of new species of crustaceans and mollusks in waters around central Philippines. Among them is a Philippine Reef...

Enoplometopus, Philippine Reef lobster, central Philippines, Environment

made popular 10 hr. ago

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Langebaan Lagoon the jewel in the Crown

Craig, Pretoria

How does the Lagoon keep its colour, so clear and bright? The Langebaan Lagoon is one of three lagoons worldwide that is nourished by the sea and not by a river. What...

Lagoon, Langebaan, Postberg Nature Reserve, Forests

made popular 12 hr. ago

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Powering the Philippines on Geothermal Energy

Grace, Quezon City

On the Philippine island of Leyte, the development of geothermal energy sources has been successful in recent years. Geothermal power now accounts for a third of the...

geothermal power, electricity generation, Leyte, Environment

made popular 12 hr. ago

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Eco Architecture: Alpine hut is green and perfect!

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

Eco Factor: A mountaineer’s hut in the heart of the Swiss Alps that stuns you with its visual grandeur and captures your attention with its 90% self-sufficient...

Monte Rosa Alpine Hut, Eco Architecture, Swiss Alps, ETH

made popular 15 hr. ago

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We are not the problem but part of the solution

Liliana, Bogota

Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will suffer greater than average effects of global warming, with devastating consequences for the environment and economy,...

Global Warming, Environment, Caribbean, World Conservation Congress

made popular 15 hr. ago

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Eco Energy: Japan introduces sugar-powered biofuel cell

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

Eco Factor: Japanese scientists have successfully created a fuel cell from sugar blocks in an attempt that could pave the wave towards clean bio uel cell...

Eco Energy, Sugar-Power, Japan, Tsuyonobu Hatazawa

made popular 16 hr. ago

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Carbon tax beats 'emissions trading' in decreasing carbon footprints

Christi, Chennai

Levying carbon tax on energy production turns out to be a simpler and cheaper solution in comparison to the more common cap and trade system of emissions trading. A...

Carbon Trading, Carbon Tax, Carbon Credits, Carbon Footprint

made popular 21 hr. ago

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Breathing clean air along the I-65 Biofuels Corridor

Christi, Chennai

One of the pleasures of driving on the interstate highways is the breath of fresh air. The journey is more comfortable when there are several biofuel gas stations along...

Biofuels Corridor, I-65 Indiana, Biodiesel, United States

made popular 21 hr. ago

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Eco Cars: BirdWing - Fly to the future on colorful green wings!

Sameer Kumar, Hyderabad

EcoFactor: A futuristic concept car that draws its inspiration from nature (a butterfly) and uses green features such as LED lighting. The BirdwWing is one of the most...

Birdwing, Concept Cars, Eco Cars, LED Lights

made popular 22 hr. ago

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