Growable Media Design: Integrating Plants and Digital Media for Information Visualization is an ambient media project designed to […]
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Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh is proposing a fleet of yachts that sprays water droplets into […]
FRUIT aims to investigate the agriculture which feeds urban dwellers, elevate the ecological knowledge of consumers and encourage […]
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The energy released by a large hurricane can exceed the energy consumption of the human race for a […]
Plastic will survive forever in landfill, or, if it is burnt, it can release toxic and carcinogenic particles […]
An eco-friendly Japanese project that can extend the lives of aging buildings won the Bronze Award in the […]
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London dwellers will be able to summon driverless buses to their front doors and be taken direct to […]
Another one seen at 100%design. To raise awareness of energy efficiency, designer Tom Goodfellow has created the Wax […]
The sun will keep London’s bus stops lit throughout the night thanks a new solar power system being […]
Metropolis Next Generation finalists have designed products that could improve access to safe drinking water among disaster-affected populations. […]
Manchester University is testing a wave energy device that uses the “bobbing” effect of water to produce more […]
Within the next couple of years over 1500 oil-, gas- and acid tanks will be removed from the […]
The aim of the Public Air Quality Indicator project is to make existing information on air quality and […]
A team at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a power-generating backpack. Dubbed “Suspended-load Backpack”, the device converts […]
Among the distinction project (Concept category) of the 51st Annual Design Review is Johnny Applesandal, eco-conscious footwear that […]
My friend Graham and his team at TreeHugger are running a DIY Eco-Tech contest. You have to come […]
Yesterday I stopped at the Fondazione Bevilacqua in Venice (just behind the pigeon-infested Piazza San Marco) to see […]
Scientists are fighting smog by developing “smart” building materials that clean the air with a little help from […]
Portable Light, developed by University of Michigan and Kennedy & Violich Architecture, is a series of prototypes which […]
reHOUSE/bath envisions the bathroom as a biotop where nature and mankind interact. BATH is a mobile bathing surface. […]
Kate Deacon works on making smart textiles and sustainability compatible and uses smart technology to generate organic movements […]
Infotropism is a project that explores the use of living material and biomimetic forms in displays, and the […]
Neighbourhood Satellites is one of my favourite projects. Ever. I’ve spammed Myriel Milicevic with messages asking her if […]
Steven Chu sees an America free from foreign oil, powered by home-grown genetically engineered and eco-friendly fuel. The […]
Lina Fenequito ’s Swap-o-Matic is a vending machine that enables people to swap used goods as a means […]
Konarka Technologies will supply the US Army with flexible plastic sheeting that converts light into energy — technology […]
The WEEE Man project, by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, is a […]
Here’s another IDII thesis project I saw at the Greenhouse Effect show during the Salone del Mobile in […]
Swedish company Parans has found a way to collect sunlight by panels in over 500 lenses, transmit it […]
The Solar Powered Wallpaper merges environmentally conscious design with innovative lighting technology. By embedding electroluminescent materials into the […]
People voluntarily expend quantities of energy working out on cardiovascular machines, many of which plug into the wall. […]
Studio Massaud is working on the Guadalajara football stadium (Mexico) which should be ready by the end of […]
Nuage Vert (Green Cloud) is part of Hehe‘s free research into altering our perception of pollution. Whenever we […]
Seattle architecture/design firm Mithun won first place in the C2C Home Competition with their design for a house […]
La Petite Maison de Weekend by Canadian studio Patkau Architects, is a very compact sustainable cottage for two. […]
The colorful panels that look like books above the entrance of a shopping mall in Nagoya, Japan, are […]
Armed with a glue gun and radio transmitters the size of a penny, scientists at University of North […]
TecEco have developed cement technologies able to transform city streets and buildings into carbon “sinks”, rather than sources. […]
The Styx Valley Protest Structure is a project by Andrew Maynard to attempt to save the Styx Valley […]
Below Tokyo streets, a staffing agency is nurturing an underground and pesticide-free farm. “The six rooms all have […]