Eco Factor:Sustainable housing development proposal gets powered by solar and wind energy.

C.F. Møller Architectsin collaboration with Moe & Brødsgaard, Cenergia, Phillips, Schüco, Erik Juul and Vogt landscape have proposed a sustainable residential building

adams find photoImage fromwsj.onlineWe are always extolling the virtues of garage sales; the joy of recycling and re-using and respecting perfectly good finds. And then there is the joy of Ansel Adams’ photography: he was one of the original environmentalists

Eco Factor:Wireless charger for electric vehicles.

Evatran has unveiled their new wireless charger for electric cars at the Plug-In 2010 conference in San Jose, California. The next-generation charger makes use of proximity charging technology to power car with electrons beamed from the car-sized Powermat.

Residual Gurus music show with recycled instrumentsphoto credit: © Xirriquiteula TeatreThe five Barcelona-basedResidual Gurushave decided to fight trash with comical roaming concerts, and are touring Europe at the moment. These talented musicians know how to transform rubbish into a spiritual performance that turns the street into

deepwater horizon on fire photophoto: US Coast GuardA new report byThe Center for Public Integrityreveals that, in the hours after theDeepwater Horizon oil rigcaught on fire, the US

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Eco Factor:Eco-friendly apartment tower concept with terraces plantings.

As part of a wider masterplan to regenerate Beirut, Swiss architectsHerzog and de Meuronhave proposed an apartment tower concept that exhibits a very unique and innovative design. The project based on five principles namely layers and terraces, inside and outside, vegetation, views and privacy, light and identity gives rise to a vertically layered building expressed by diverse sizes of slabs which create both openness and privacy and enable flexible living between in- and outside.

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denver living city block imageDenver Living City BlockOver40% of our energy consumptiongoes into powering our buildings, and we all know that we have to cut that Godzilla-sized footprint. But it seems that most of our

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