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New JAXA Technology Captures Solar Energy in Space

Instead of doing the old-fashioned solar power thing, and capturing the sun's rays as they hit the Earth's surface,...

Every year in New York City, the PS1 Contemporary Art Center hosts an architectural design competition to design...

As soon as we saw them, we instantly fell in love with Brio54’s new set of prefab residential prototypes. A...

All-electric vehicles may seem like an impossible dream to most, with a price point that's far out of reach. That...

Ocean waves are already being used as a source of renewable energy, but could differences in water temperatures...

In the future, when you need to charge your cell phone, all you'll need to do is to go for a walk. Researchers...

All eyes during the past week were on the much anticipated Fall 2008 fashion shows here in New York City, but we...

We've featured a variety of different shipping container homes, from a quick emergency shelter, to LOT-EK's container...

The designers at New York City based Fluxxlabstudio have come up with an ingenious sustainable energy harvesting...

A human-powered energy-generating gym like Hong Kong’s is now taking shape in Seattle, turning human sweat into...

Norman Foster's Masdar City is poised to become world’s most sustainable, zero-waste, car-free, carbon neutral...

Imagine an urban future where no cars are ever parked blocking the curb, but instead are 'parked' by being perched...

Despite the enormous untapped potential of solar energy, one thing is for sure- photovoltaics are only as good...

Quite a bit of eco-buzz has been generated since Earth Pledge's FutureFashion runway show here in NYC on Thursday...

Our favorite visionary designer Fritz Haeg is at it once again, this time with the launch of Animal Estates, the...