Innova-Green
This section is dedicated to articles about environmental solutions and
sustainable businesses. A greener and more efficient wave of technologies
are on its rise-up, and the environmental management foundations are
being build to achieve a zero emissions society...
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Paris Autolib: From Bike-Sharing to Car-Sharing!
Following the popularity of bike sharing programs, it seems only natural that cities begin to offer a rental electric car service—and this is exactly what the city of Paris is planning to initiate. Having been a leader among global cities in the movement to implement a successful bike sharing system, Paris will now tackle cars in an effort to relieve traffic congestio
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Urban Rooftop Farming: the Answer to Our Sustainable Food Crisis?
Montreal-based agribusiness, Lufa Farms, just might have the solution we’ve been looking for in the global fight to move towards more sustainable food production practices. Lufa Farms grows produce in greenhouses constructed on top of buildings in Montreal. The food Read More ›
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Tata & MIT Collaborate to Create Energy From Water and Bring Power to 3 Billion People
The Tata Group continues its ever-expanding quest to bring resources to low-income citizens of the world, this time with an announcement that it has joined up with MIT scientist Daniel Nocera, founder of SunCatalytix, to create power from water. Specific Read More ›
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Elithis Tower: Remarkable Energy Efficient Structure
French engineers are paving the way towards more environmentally friendly structures. Indeed, the Elithis group developed a building which is not only more energy efficient but which generates more energy than what it actually consumes. The breakthrough doesn’t end here, Read More ›
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Soft Rocker, Stylish Lounge Chair to Power your Electric Devices
Architecture students at MIT have created the Soft Rocker, a solar powered charging lounge chair that allows fellow students to recharge their electronic devices while relaxing outside in Killian Court. The MIT SOFT Rockers are smart, clean energy charging stations disguised as Read More ›
Transforming Trees Into Street Lights
A group of scientists in Taiwan recently discovered that placing gold nanoparticles within the leaves of trees, causes them to give off a luminous reddish glow. The idea of using trees to replace street lights is an ingenious one – Read More ›
Creating Roads From Sand and Bacteria Instead of Oil
Designers Thomas Kosbau and Andrew Wetzler have come with a plan for a greener alternative — a “biologically treated and processed paving material” that uses a common microbe to transform loose grains of stand into stable, road-worthy sandstone.
Bioplastic Made from Poop, for a Profit
Sometimes you can take two problems, add them together, and get a win-win solution. In this case, here are the two problems: First, as cities expand we create more waste and more sewage, and we don’t have any really good Read More ›
Paris metro body heat to help warm building
The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat a public housing project in the city center, the capital’s largest owner of social housing said on Friday. The building, located in the famous rue Beaubourg close Read More ›
Gorgeous Glass Tiles Heat Your Home With Solar Energy
SolTech Energy’s business idea is to provide an integrated solar energy system which is economical, flexible, elegant and sustainable. SolTech Energy’s concept will be realized with the Nordic countries as a base and grow to have Europe as market. The Read More ›
Ground Breaking Night Flight- Solar Impulse
The Solar Impulse is a revolutionary concept that seeks to push back the limits of our knowledge of materials, energy management and man-machine interface. With its huge wingspan equal to that of an Airbus A340, and its proportionally minimum weight, Read More ›
POO POWER: Chicken Manure to Power UK Homes
Chicken manure is becoming a renewable energy source of choice for many countries. We previously reported that the Netherlands were planning to use the waste product to power over 9,000 homes, and now the UK is also planning a similar Read More ›
World’s Smallest Solar-Powered Movie House Seats 8
The Sol Cinema is a tiny, solar-powered movie house that seats eight adults or twelve children. The cinema is a converted two berth caravan from the 1960′s commissioned by the media arts charity Undercurrents. It runs on four large lithium Read More ›
Leaf Sensor, Revolutionizing Irrigation
LeafSen LTD has developed a set of “cutting edge” plant sensing devices. The “LeafSen Leaf Sensor” is a registered patent in several countries including Australia and the USA. Our leading products are: LeafSen Growth controlLeafSen Company has developed an innovative Read More ›
Transforming Greenhouse Gases Into Fuel
A Universal Replacement for Petroleum The world is highly dependent on the existing transportation and fuel delivery infrastructure. Automobiles, trucks, trains, ships and planes powered by liquid fuels are crucial to our way of life. Other alternative technologies under consideration Read More ›
The Story of Bottled Water with Annie Leonard
Annie Leonard, the mastermind behind The Story of Stuff and The Story of Cap and Trade, has released the latest in her series of animations about environmental issues, just in time for World Water Day. , with juicy tidbits like: Read More ›
Blythe Solar Power Project: U.S. World’s Largest Solar Power Plant
Calling it a major milestone, the Obama administration on Monday approved what investors say will be the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant and one that more than doubles all of U.S. solar output and can power at least 300,000 Read More ›
Photovoltaic Paving Tiles Coming Soon a Sidewalk Near You
Onyx Solar recently teamed up with Butech to launch a new line of photovoltaic paving stones made from ceramic and glass. The streamlined solar stones are manufactured using a process that produces less CO2 and uses less energy than traditional Read More ›
i2O: An Intelligent Grid For Water Systems That Could Save Millions Of Gallons
One of the major issues I’ve been seeing raised internationally in the last year is that of fresh water shortage. Do you remember that striking visualization of the entirety of our planet’s fresh water pictured next to the salt and Read More ›
MIT Researchers Print Solar Cell On Paper
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully coated paper with a solar cell, part of a suite of research projects aimed at energy breakthroughs. Susan Hockfield, MIT’s president, and Paolo Scaroni, CEO of Italian oil company Eni, Read More ›