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Eco Factor: Streetlights powered by solar and wind energy. Designers looking for ways to create a greener and better future always want their thrilling designs to take the final shape. While most designs remain on paper, either because of a lack...

Eco Factor: Sculptural streetlights powered by solar energy. The folks over at Marco De Gregorio have designed a stunning way to make the streets of tomorrow elegant and illuminate them with green energy after dark. Known as the “City Leaves,”.

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..

Eco Factor: Solar-powered streetlight design. Whenever solutions to some of the gravest problems confronting humans today are sought, there is no better guide that Mother Nature herself. Designer Jongoh Lee too has taken help from nature in...

Eco Factor: Water turbine to generate renewable electricity for Irish county. Streetlights are something that need to be kept powered up irrespective of the fact that is anyone crossing the street or not. Just because of this irregular use,...

What can be better and greener for a city then getting street lights powered by natural elements like wind and sun? The brain behind such a practical idea is Mojtaba Navvab, of the University of Michigan Architectural Laboratory. This hybrid...

Streetlights have become common all over the world, be it a developing nation or vice-versa. The difference is that the developed world is emphasizing on using renewable energy (solar, wind etc) whereas the developing world can just follow their...