Photosynthesis is soon going to find an application in fuel-production. Instead of producing biofuel, the process will generate hydrogen fuel, only if the Yale Solar Group succeeds in splitting water into its elementary components using sunlight….
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Recycling was never as meaningful as it has gotten to be at the Ventnor Elementary School. As Ferranti-Martin, the art teacher, creates an amazing mural from discarded bottle caps, the kids follow her closely; in fact, they contribute in whatever way.
Green Queen inspires kids to create mural with recycled bottle caps Read More »
The 20-year-old Skomer Marine Reserve is a home to abundant marine biodiversity. Here the divers, as they dive into the blue sea, come across various colorful creatures, like multicolored fish, violet sea slugs, purple urchins, seals, sharks, sea..
In Photos: Colorful sealife from Britain’s Skomer Marine Reserve Read More »
Superior resistance to draughty climate qualifies pokeberries – a weed found in every continent except Antarctica – as an appropriate component for future, fiber-based solar cells. Recent researches by the Wake Forest University’s Center for…
Pokeberry dye to make solar cells twice efficient than before Read More »
At the Memorial Day weekend, the music, arts and green living worlds will converge at Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine, California (just one hour south of Los Angeles) for The Do LaB’s 5th annual Lightning in a Bottle Festival on May 28 – 31, 2010. In…
Lightning in a Bottle 2010 to create sustainable dreamscape Read More »
Kui-Qing Peng, a Chinese chemist, and his colleagues from Beijing Normal University and City University of Hong Kong have succeeded in sidelining the brittleness on nanowires that leads to technical hitches during the solar cell fabrication and…
Chinese chemist creates silicon solar cell with flexible nanoholes Read More »
Shipping container houses are the new trend. Apart from being economical and sustainable, they can make a great style statement. Thinking on these lines Paul Stankey has come up with a cute little home made using cargo containers. Blending…
Eco-DIYer creates contemporary styled shipping container home Read More »
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are working towards bringing a new revolution in the field of solar power. The team has come out with a way to print thin film solar cells on paper. This new technique that will help in…
MIT researchers succeed in printing solar cells on paper Read More »
In a couple of years, you will see a life-size sculpture – featuring seven whales – adding a distinctive grace to the Kapiti Coast. The $3.5 million sculpture proposed by artist Mike Fuller and design consultant Gavin Bradley will be made from…
Seven full-scale humpback whales to devour Kapiti Coast Read More »
Telekom Austria, a telecommunications company is determined to make green recharge accessible to all electric vehicles: cars, scooters and bicycles. That is why it has decided to turn its public telephone boxes into battery recharging stations. In…
Phone boxes converted into car recharging stations in Austria Read More »