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Eco Architecture: Triangular skyscraper designed with vegetated mini-atriums

Anupam | Aug 3 2009

Eco Factor: Sustainable architecture aims to lower energy use. Goettsch Partners has won the competition to design the Soochow Securities Headquarters with a triangular skyscraper that incorporates ingenious features to lower the buildings...

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Eco Tech: Logan International Airport to get ‘solar trees’

Anupam | May 22 2009

Eco Factor: Solar array capable of generating 80,000KWh of electricity annually for Logan International Airport Logan International Airport, Boston, will soon be generating solar energy enough to power the garage. The system is a part of the $55.7.

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Eco Tech: NEC testing next-gen wireless energy monitoring system

Anupam | Apr 4 2009

Eco Factor: Wireless energy monitoring system beams data to NEC servers for evaluation. NEC is testing a newly developed technology to monitor energy usage, using the homes of 100 of its staff in Japan. Known as “Carbon Diet”, the program is...

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Eco Tech: Cellphone-operated streetlights — the most bizarre way to save energy

Anupam | Feb 24 2009

Eco Factor: Streetlights that turn on with a cellphone command. The need to conserve energy has always been backed up technological innovations that take us to a newer world where technology and the environment benefit each other. However, this..