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BioLite Stove Charges Your Phone While Cooking Your Dinner
Wood-burning stoves aren’t known for being particularly efficient, and their smoke not only contains high carbon emissions but causes health risks to those who inhale it. A portable design from BioLite...
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A Groupon For Solar? Solar@Work Offers Buildings Discounts For Going Green...
Group buying is moving into the commercial clean energy space thanks to Solar@Work, a program designed by San Francisco’s Department of the Environment to make solar panels more affordable for business...
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Lego Cased Computer Crunches Efficiently For A Good Cause
For many people, building with Legos brings back fond memories. For Mike Schropp, the memories are still being built. Schropp loves Legos, often incorporating them into technology. For his latest...
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HaloIPT Revs Up For Wirelessly Charged Electric Cars
Those who resist purchasing an electric car because charging stations are less ubiquitous than gas stations or figuring out how to charge your car at home seems complicated have one less excuse to go...
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This Electric Plane Is Powered By Its Own By Solar Hangar
Aviation enthusiasts interested in greener flying might put an Elektra One plane on their wish lists. PC-Aero‘s electric aircraft can fly for up to three hours on one charge with a 100mph cruising...
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13-Year-Old Designs Efficient Solar Array Inspired By Oak Trees
When it comes to renewable energy solutions, sometimes nature has the best ideas. That was 13-year-old Aidan Dwyer’s conclusion after a wintry hike in New York’s Catskill Mountains, a trip that...
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Can Municipal Waste Power Our Cars?
One future source of green energy may be as close as the nearest dumpster thanks to companies vying to make fuel from trash. Enerkem, based in Montreal, and Fiberight, in Maryland, hope to turn...
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Ghost Town To Be Built As A Green Tech Test Bed
An uninhabited playground for green tech and innovative experiments is in the works to be built in New Mexico. The pseudo town will be used to research and test new green tech, wireless and traffic...
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Solar-Powered Bulb Provides Light After Dark
A solar-powered light bulb may sound like an oxymoron (what’s the point of a lightbulb that only works when the sun’s out?), but a company called Nokero has a prototype in the works that will charge a...
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Dean Kamen’s Inflatable Wind Turbine Doubles As Digital Billboard
Most wind turbines have a recognizable shape, but a new design from Segway inventor Dean Kamen is less obvious in its functionality: This turbine has a vertical axis and rotors made of plastic fabric...
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Electronic Flowerpot Takes The Guesswork Out Of Gardening
Even though plants need only a few things to grow – water, air, light and minerals – maintaining the right proportions can make gardening feel like a high-maintenance hobby. Estonian company Click...
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Bus/Tram Combo Charges Battery As It Picks Up Passengers
German researchers are testing a unique form of public transportation that borrows the best from busses, electric cars, trains and trams without contributing emissions. The vehicle, named AutoTram, is...
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Marine Solar Cells Make The Most Of Sun And Waves
In an unusual hybrid, British industrial designer Phil Pauley created Marine Solar Cells that harness energy from both the sun and water. The web of energy generators capture energy off-shore, using a...
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Could ‘Spider-Worm’ Silk Be The Next Supermaterial?
Spiderman might soon lose his dominance in harnessing spider silk superpowers. Scientists from the University of Wyoming, the University of Notre Dame and Zhejiang University in China have managed to...
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Kite-Like Turbines Harness Wind Power At Altitude
Flying a kite to produce power may conjure up images of Ben Franklin, who sought to prove lightning was electric. Makani Power releases a turbine blade into the air, seeking to harness wind energy at...
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Retroficiency Identifies Building Energy Inefficiencies Without Ever Stepping...
Buildings are blamed for as much as 40% of U.S. energy consumption, and while green construction is on the rise, identifying the best ways to make an older building more efficient can be a tedious...
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White House Pushes Green Button To Liberate Your Energy Data
The future of easy home energy monitoring may be a little bit closer, thanks to a government initiative designed to allow consumers direct access to their energy consumption data. The White House’s new...
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New Hybrid Solar Cells Harness More Of The Sun’s Light Spectrum
Scientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK have found a way to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells by as much as 25% through harnessing more of the sun’s spectrum than most...
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Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor Takes The Guesswork Out Of Container Gardening
Houseplants can be hard to care for, even when watered regularly on a sunny windowsill. A new device from Swiss startup Koubachi takes the guesswork out of plant care through real-time monitoring and...
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Department Of Veterans Affairs Uses SaaS To Go Green
Defining an energy efficiency strategy can be challenging for big organizations with multiple large buildings. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced today that it has installed energy analysis...
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