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According to Ecofriend an Indian company has announced its ambitious plan to create the largest industrial park of clean energy in India. More exactly the specialists from Airvoice Group are trying to produce over 13.000 Megawati (MW) of electricity from sustainable sources. The project which is necessitating an investment of approximately 50 billion dollars is based on the production of wind...read

During history the grass roofs have slowly appeared in those parts of the world where the building materials were very limited. The “green roof” is mostly considered as being a European phenomenon and this type of houses are often found in suburban or country zones. In England and Scotland the phenomena seems to be very common and in the Orkney region of Scotland there are green roofs since...read

The sixth annual Architecture and the City festival it’s a greatest, important moment for the nation reguarding items like films, exhibitions, lectures and more. The event will move more than 20,000 people and it will be an opportunity for individuals, design practices, companies, cultural institutions and the general public to celebrate San Francisco's unique built environment...read

The meeting of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was closed with an agreement by the countries committing to a significant reduction in emissions, and to raise funds to kickstart action in the developing world deal with climate change. During the meeting, world leaders agreed supported by the majority of countries, This agreement can not be all that everyone has...read

The company can not afford to make a bad impression at first. Any point of contact that leads to your company needs to impress, motivate and inspire the potential client. You can have a great product, the important thing is that customers need to believe that you are professional despite yours young age. Here are same simple tips 1. Website: Your website is the center of your universe of the...read

Often we do not think, given the amount of time that we spend today or for business or pleasure, it is easy to realize the amount of energy we could save money with simple precautions Laser Printers: A survey of Swiss Federal Office of Energy has given surprising results about the power consumption of printers: the energy consumed to print is only 8% of the aggregate. This means that the...read

Many people are looking for a great idea. For Gary Goldberg, the idea came night after night, after several night runs to the emergency room, the 4 year old son was diagnosed with an allergy to dust mites. Goldberg did some research and found that dust mites are formed naturally from the waste, and 70% of Americans suffer from this type of allergy. his idea was to create a barrier to this...read

The UK is a nation obsessed with gadgets. Indeed, a recent report by the Sunday Times found that 94% of men, the main reason is thrilled when their partners announce their pregnancy is not the joy of having an early opportunity to take that creature's arms, but the possibility of buying the newest gadgets - or 'dadgets' - which will shortly be available to them. Here are some gadgets...read

The researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for ceramic systems and technologies in Germany succeeded building a biogas production unit based on organic waste, which combined with a battery produced by the same Institute is transformed into electricity. The IKS researchers in cooperation with several IMM-ss have perfected an installation, using as a raw material the corn strains. The...read

A system, developed by engineering students at Northeastern University, can help cut your energy bills. The system, called Empower Numbers (numbersempower.com), uses wireless sensors to monitor each appliance in your home individually. It also allows the devices to shut off from any location with a mobile phone or PC. Just connect the sensors to devices and wall outlets in your...read

Most of us have an old cell phone lying in some corner, unused or unusable. We have just moved on towards a more stylish or user-friendly or just a more recently released model. If this is true of at least two individuals in a household, imagine the number of cell-phones just lying there unused. These can be used, to help the environment and also save a lot of resources through basic recycling....read

Worldwide uses Facebook and is constantly adding new features and options for the process to make it more user-friendly. The last function is "an ad, a new feature management tool ads. It 'a step towards the creation of automated ad posting, and it seems very promising in this respect, if not completely polished yet. Instead of manually entering all the data annoying, as the title image and...read

A Florida company has transformed a fitness salon into an electrical power generator. According to “Inhabitat”, the people who are going there to exercise and burn calories are in the same time creating sustainable energy. Usually when people exercise using standard fitness equipment all the kinetic energy generated is completely lost. That’s why the ReRev Company has created a system able...read

The use of digital technology is evolving and will soon be difficult to distinguish real from what is false. We offer some examples: - Ringo Ivan Tihienko is designed to replace mobile phones and PDAs. It 's a holographic projection that follows you around like your shadow and does every thing to navigate the streets, send email, organize your schedule. Even throw down a game of air hockey on...read