eco design

Portable Hydroelectric Generator is a Backpack Power Plant

This portable new product promises energy on the go - and we don't mean a Power Bar. Bourne Energy's Backpack Power...

[gallery_extend] Designed to be built on Watson Island, Miapolis would measure about 183 meters higher...

[gallery_extend] During his research, Duany says that his team was able to identify four separate classes...

We're totally intrigued by this pop music center for Taipei and its striking resemblance to a rolling green hill....

Yesterday, at the Greener Gadgets conference in NYC, prolific industrial designer Yves Béhar unveiled never before...

It may sound a bit creepy, but wouldn't it be cool if buildings could grow their own skin? California-based architecture...

It's not easy walking on a prosthetic foot. Aside from the obvious difficulty of adjusting to an artificial limb,...

Isn't it great when you don't have to sacrifice beauty for sustainability? Case in point: Bio-Glass, a striking...

[gallery_extend] Led by Seattle based architecture firm LMN, the most extraordinary addition to the...

The Los Angeles skyline is changing, and its going for gold - LEED Gold, that is. Opening next week, the Gensler...

It's a weighty title: the greenest building in North America. But that's exactly what the University of British...

Sydney's ugliest building may soon be getting a new lease on life through to a plan to 'reskin' the entire tower...

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It's easy enough to find a solar-powered charger for iPods, cell phones, and other gadgets, but this ultra-tiny...

Ocean-bound shipping containers are an often-overlooked source of CO2 emissions -- over 90% of all non-bulk cargo...