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This is a short video on Luxim’s plasma lightbulb. Silicon Valley’s Luxim has developed a lightbulb the size of a Tic Tac that gives off as much light as a streetlight. News.com’s Michael Kanellos talks to the company about its technology and its plans to expand into various markets.

A New institute was launched yesterday that promises to pump money and brain power into green research in Singapore.
The institute, Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute (Newri) will focus on turning ideas like managing trash and detecting pollution into reality.
Located at the Nanyang Technological Institute was part of three initiatives launched yesterday by the Minister [...]

Remember the last post that I have made on the new eco-city which is under construction? Today i managed to see the architecture and design of the buildings via metaefficient. The design is really stunning. It is not only stunning but also very power efficient. In fact, the Masdar headquarter is said to be able [...]

Ever want help out in making the Earth greener? You can do so now at Tree Nation by helping to plant a tree in Niger, the poorest country in the world. And you can do it with as low as 10€ per tree.
Tree-Nation is an ecological project with the objective of planting 8 million [...]

While searching for some news on the net, i came across this interesting photo. This image is an conceptual computer artwork that shows the total volume of earth’s water and air compared to earth. The blue sphere on the left represents the total volume of water while the pink sphere on the right shows the [...]

Hmm… Don’t fly? Eat less meat? Have no more than 2 children? Guess i have to travel by sea next time…

Since the introduction of the Asus Ecobook last year, Asus has been researching on more products that could make use of bamboo as part of its material. Now a whole new range of Bamboo products were unveiled at the CeBIT 2008 expo in Germany.
These products include bamboo laptops, a bamboo monitor and a bamboo-coated PC [...]

How can it be?
According to two researchers from the University of California, Matthew J. Kotchen and Laura E. Grant, the daylight saving time indeed uses more energy rather than less.
The daylight saving time was first proposed by William Willett in 1907. Since then many countries have used it in one time or another. Perhaps the [...]