Eco Friendly Guide

A team from the BBC1 science programme Bang Goes the Theory has unveiled a car that runs on coffee. Christened as Car-puccino, the car is actually a modified version of a £400, 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco. Well, the visible area of concern, for…

Designer Seo Dong-Hun has come up with a magic wand – a LED light brush – that makes anyone qualified enough to be a “Mozart of lights.” What you need to do is wave the wand, dubbed the Draw the Lights, and you would see clusters of LEDs…

Moss-covered green roofs lend a sure grace to the 55-apartment Helen Court in Witham that has been erected on a former site of sheltered housing. Mimicking a turf, the sedum roof will have embedded wild flowers to augment its overall green texture….

Have you ever imagined of a busy highway that suddenly loses all its mobile aides? Well, I am talking about the gas-guzzling autos, bikes and pedestrians as well. Supposing these are literally swapped with books, scattered all over the place, would…

If I say that one bottle of drinking water is capable of providing enough energy to power in entire household, would you believe it? Well, Dan Nocera, a chemist from MIT and founder of the company Sun Catalytix, claims he can do just that putting his.

Scientists at Harvard Medical School have succeeded in discovering how the cyanobacteria fixes carbon and ultimately digests it. Pamela Silver, HMS professor of systems biology, says that the rod-shaped bacteria organize soccer-ball-shaped, miniature.

Monaco-based yacht maker Wally in collaboration with Paris-based fashion house Hermès present a yacht that is a depiction of luxury and sustainability. Dubbed the “WHY 37×24,” the $62 million, solar-powered mega-yacht was unveiled last week. No…

Thanks to some determined efforts from MIT’s Bits and Atoms lab, the Afghani locals are now better versed with internet and all. The volunteers made locals to use locally found trash like pieces of board, plastic tubs, wire, and cans to make a…

The Museum of Science and Industry’s Smart Home, a fully functioning, eco-friendly home, is said to be the greenest home in Chicago. Celebrating its third year of existence, the 2,500 square foot demo residence will be transformed for 2010 by…

The World Cup, for which South Africa left no stone unturned to make the stadium as green as possible, might just bring in with it elements that are blamed for environmental depletion. The new stadiums built for Africa’s first World Cup incorporate…