The General Motors-owned Hummer (a notoriously gas-guzzling vehicle) is going eco-friendly. The company has produced a near-zero emission hybrid that is powered by electricity and claiming to have a fuel efficiency of 100 miles a gallon. Compare this with Toyota’s Prius hybrid, which gives only 50 miles a gallon…

Eco-friendly Electric Powered Hummer

Hummer had started collaborating with Raser Technologies, an energy-technology company focusing on geothermal power development and technology licensing, about 15 months ago to create a “green” vehicle with as much as 600 pounds of lithium-ion battery packs.

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By waggling a wing, aircrafts could save up to 20% fuel – thus saving on costs significantly and also cutting greenhouse-gas emissions from aviation.

An Airbus A380 on San Francisco Airport

The surprise discovery was made by researchers at the University of Warwick in Coventry, West Midlands, England, who were “playing with” a model aircraft-wing in a wind tunnel.

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Solar Powered Robot Takes Various Shapes

The current challenge for mankind is to seek the advantages of alternative energy. We are not quite sure whether we have reached a level where we can actually use solar energy to entertain ourselves but, if someone creates an “android” based on the same theory, we’re going to hail the development first and than be caustic.

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The prototype of the prefab home of Blue Sky Homes in Yucca Valley in California, the United States, is now complete, weeks after installing the footings. And the photos of the prototype, released by Dave McAdam, owner of the Yucca Valley, show what one expert described as “an excellent example of clean, efficient, contemporary, desert architecture.”

Blue Sky Homes Prefab Home Ready

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have created history of sorts by turning their urine into water and actually drinking it!

On May 20, astronauts aboard the space station drank water that had been recycled from their urine, sweat and water that condenses from exhaled air. What is more, they said “cheers” as they clicked drinking bags and toasted those working on the ground at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) who themselves were sipping their own version of recycled drinking water.

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Irrespective of your journey being small or short, you can travel causing minimum stress to Mother Earth.

Traveling in Maldives

Our good friends at AboutMyPlanet came up with a couple of tips as to how you can start doing it.

Packing things and preparing your home

Preparing to leave your home for a week or two is not that easy. You got to pack all things you need, plus to make arrangements to take care of your house in your absence.

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The concept of urban farming has taken the shape of the wings of a dragonfly in the Roosevelt Island in New York City. The initiative aims at relieving shortage of food as well as “reconnecting” consumers with producers.

Dragonfly Vertical Farm in New York

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Hollywood actor and former model Cameron Diaz has made public how she contributes her bit to the well-being if environmental by conserving water in her toilet!

Cameron Diaz at Jay Leon, explains how she flushes the toilet

Cameroon Diaz, the strikingly attractive female starring in The Mask and There’s Something About Mary, opened up at NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno: “It’s one of those things that is just a lifestyle choice. I was brought up that way, so it’s something that I automatically do. I’m rigged that way.”

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Two new studies have revealed that more people now face damage than ever before on account of earthquakes, droughts, floods and other disasters. And, this is mainly owing to a sharp rise in urban populations in developing countries.

Slums in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

According to one of the studies— conducted by the United Nations and titled the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, smaller or poorer countries could be destroyed by disasters which would relatively affect little those places that are protected by size or wealth.

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A United States-based company is seeking to produce the tiniest solar cells ever made. Semprius, based in Durham, North Carolina, was inspired by research conducted by Professor John A Rogers and his team at the University of Illinois.

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