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• GOTHAM and SunMast by 3XN and Scotia

  
  3rings — Authority: 442
  While the world is paying attention to the proceedings of the Copenhagen Climate Conference, select members of the A+D community are focusing on where it takes place, the city’s Bella Center. More specifically, their parking lot, where architecture and lighting firms collaborated in order to illustrate “the ...
  2 hours ago

• Solar-Powered Irrigation Boosting Household Incomes

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 441
  Solar-powered drip irrigation systems significantly increased vegetable production in villages in the western African nation of Benin , improving nutrition and boosting household incomes, according to a new study. The study, led by a researcher at Stanford University’s Program on Food Security and the Environment, ...
  7 hours ago

• Canon X Mark I is green

  
  Coolest Gadgets — Authority: 694
  Just how green is the Canon X Mark I calculator? Well, for starters, it looks very Apple-sque, and is made up from recycled PowerShot lenses – at least where the glass elements are concerned. At $30 a pop, this makes for a very expensive calculator compared to those Made-in-China staples that tend to break down when ...
  9 hours ago

• Solar-powered irrigation improves diet and income in rural sub-Saharan Africa

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  Washington, January 5 (ANI): A new study by Stanford University scientists has determined that solar-powered drip irrigation systems significantly enhance household incomes and nutritional intake of villagers in arid sub-Saharan Africa.The two-year study found that solar-powered pumps installed in remote villages in ...
  15 hours ago

• The Solar Powered Dragonfly Kit

  
  Coolest Gadgets — Authority: 694
  Lawn ornaments are still found in a great deal of yards, yet slowly they’re changing.  It used to be you could watch them change as soon as there was a strong breeze.  However, instead of these dragonflies flapping their wings with the wind, they are powered by the sun.  Thankfully, they do still keep their power ...
  1 day ago

• Keystone Eco Tag Marks Your Luggage And Charges Batteries

  
  Gadgetreview — Authority: 507
  It’s a luggage tag!  No, it’s a solar powered battery charger! No…unbelievably enough, it’s BOTH. It’s the Keystone Eco Tag, and it attaches to your attache–or any other piece of luggage–just like any other luggage tag.  It’s got a space for you to pencil in your name and address and such in case ...
  1 day ago

• Blinds to get Vision with Solar-Powered Eye Implant

  
  Hardware Sphere — Authority: 541
  This is great news for those with disability in eye-sight because soon a Solar Powered Eye Implant will be available and once again will giving a sight for them. Found on Inhabitat, they are saying that researchers at Stanford University have managed to develop a new artificial retina implant with the help of a micro ...
  1 day ago

• Making Cooking Gas From Garbage

  
  GreenEnergyForEarth.com - Solar & Wind Power Products — Authority: 126
  
  2 days ago

• Weird Solar Device of the Day: Keystone Ecotag Solar Powered Luggage Tag

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 157
  Image via Concord Keystone Solar power…on your luggage tag. It’s like combining a pen and a clock - do the two really need to go together? Do they actually compliment one another? This device attempts to put solar power in a handy, versatile place. But it doesn’t seem to quite hit the nail on the head. … Read ...
  4 days ago

• Tokyo’s High Tech Bike Parking Revisited

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 157
  Image credit: Guardian From solar-powered bike parking pods to this Indian-designed vertical bike tree , TreeHugger is not short on neat concepts for better bike storage. But it was Tokyo’s automated bike parking that really got us excited. Now the G… Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Tokyo’s High ...
  4 days ago

• Urban Commuter Trike Concept

  
  ScooteringUSA — Authority: 447
  The Urban Commuter Trike Concept is a new concept bike from Tim Tobola that thrives on solar power. This hybrid bike features solar panels that can be recharged in just 2 hours and will give you 20 to 30 miles of ride time. If you use up the stored energy, you can always switch to conventional pedal power. The front ...
  4 days ago

• Pifco’s Solar-Powered Path Strip Lights

  
  EnviroGadget.com — Authority: 475
  The Solar-Powered Path Lights made by Pifco are a versatile lighting system. The lights come in packs of two which can be placed around the garden either on the ground or on walls. The Solar-Powered Path Lights have both spikes and wall mounting plates on them. Each light has a spike at either end of the ...
  5 days ago

• Eco Cars: Deltoid electric concept car recharges its batteries with solar energy

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 650
  Eco Factor: Concept car designed to get powered by solar energy. In an effort to green personal transportation, industrial designers have long imagined vehicles that are powered by electric engines running on renewable sources of energy harvested by the vehicle itself. The Deltoid, which was an entrant at the ...
  5 days ago

• Portable Solar Power and Solar Powered Lights

  
  Announced Articles & Press Releases — Authority: 151
  Solar energy is a clean and efficient for of energy. The demand for it is greater than the supply. The cost of supplying electricity to remote locations is expensive and time consuming. Solar power is an excellent alternative. Portable solar power has been referred to as packaging sunlight. The concept is using an ...
  5 days ago

• Toyota developing solar-powered charging station for plug-in vehicles

  
  Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots and Videos - 4wheelsnews.com — Authority: 534
  Toyota Industries Corp. is developing a new solar-powered charging station for plug-in vehicles. In Toyota City, the local government will be installing 21 new stations at 11 different locations.Due to solar power’s limitations related to day and weather conditions, each of the bays gets an 8.2 kWh storage battery ...
  6 days ago

• The Best Eco-Inventions of 2009: Food and Water

  
  The GREEN MARKET — Authority: 124
  Vertical Farming: Valcent , a company based in El Paso, Texas, is pioneering a space efficient hydroponic-farming system that grows plants in rotating rows, which expands food supplies without using more land. The rotation gives the plants the precise amount of light and nutrients they need, while the vertical ...
  6 days ago

• Eco Rides: Solar-powered folding trike gears for a green ride tomorrow

  
  Ecofriend — Authority: 650
  Eco Factor: Zero-emission trike harvests solar power. Designed by Tim Tobola, the Urban Commuter Trike aims to solve the mains issues in transportation today, which include the over-dependence on polluting fossil-fuel-powered cars. The easiest way to reduce the carbon footprint of individuals is to reduce this ...
  6 days ago

• Time-Shifting Sunshine: A Solar Powered Floor Lamp

  
  A Green Zone — Authority: 157
  A few years ago we showed Tobias Wong’s Sun Jar, that collected and stored sunshine so that you can use it at night. As we noted then, “there are a thousand dumb and ugly things that do this; what a difference the designer’s touch makes.” One could say the same thing about this lamp designed by od-do ...
  6 days ago

• Implantable solar cells the way of the future

  
  Coolest Gadgets — Authority: 694
  Solar energy seems to be the way to go regardless of where you stay (we’re talking about populated areas and not some of those tribal peoples who live in extreme cold conditions, introduced to us through National Geographic), as it is free, environmentally friendly and capable of keeping your devices juiced up no ...
  1 week ago

• Keystone Eco Tag Solar Charger

  
  Coolest Gadgets — Authority: 694
  There are all types of solar chargers out there these days.  This one is meant for those of you that are constantly traveling, but it would still work just fine for those that don’t travel at all.  This solar charger actually doubles as a luggage tag, which is why it might be better suited for those that travel.  ...
  1 week ago

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