Founded in October 2007 on $200 million of venture capital, Better Place, in its first six months, announced cooperative agreements with Israel and Denmark to transform their transportation infrastructure from oil-based to renewable energy and significantly reduce harmful emissions. Doing so they have committed to deploying the world’s first electric car networks.
Realized by Shai Agassi, [...]

The first solar powered community of North America is located in the town of Okotoks, Alberta, Canada. They call it the Drake Landing Solar Community. There are 800 solar panels located throughout the community on garage roofs, and they produce 1.5 mega-watts of thermal power during a summer day and supply heat to the district [...]

Even if chemistries wasn’t you favorite class in high school you probably know a little about acids and bases. Scientists have found a way to reverse the effects of ocean acidification and by doing so reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere. How will they do it? By adding lime a.k.a calcium hydroxide to seawater.
Adding lime [...]

I think it’s pretty clear what the concept here is.  Who doesn’t love the idea of washing your clothes and then using the soapy, dirty water to flush your toilets?  Not me.
Advantages: space savings, grey-water re-use, nice environmental feeling while flushing.
Disadvantages: the occasional dropped sock, and perhaps a bit of a bumpy ride if you [...]

Everything’s “eco” these days. Which, in many ways, is a good thing. Many consumers think in terms of energy savings and environmental impact, and many manufacturers are now thinking the same way. Although, sometimes the manufacturers are thinking only in terms of advertising slogans and not really changing the products they sell.
It’s [...]

The electric car has been around for longer then most people think. The “EV 1″ by General Motors was the first modern production electric vehicle from a major automaker and also the first purpose-built electric car produced by GM in the United States. But why are we still driving gasoline powered vehicle if electric technology [...]

In the Israeli desert, a US-israeli team is testing a new technology that uses mirrors to harness the sun’s rays and create electricity-producing steam.

So, let’s imagine you’re all set to take the next step in your conversion to green living. Instead of driving to work, you’ve decided to ride your bike, giving yourself some much-needed exercise, bypassing the consumption of precious petroleum, sparing the earth a few tons of greenhouse-gas exhaust fumes (except for the carbon dioxide [...]