What if your window blinds could power your home in addition to shading its rooms? That’s the idea behind SolarGaps’ new solar blinds. These smart blinds designed to track the sun can be controlled via an app, and the company says their product will slash energy bills by as much as 70 percent. SolarGaps’ smart … Continue reading →SolarGaps’ new solar blinds shade windows and generate clean energy

Around 24.8 million miles of roads crisscross the surface of Earth. And hundreds of millions of barrels of oil have been used for that development. Engineer Toby McCartney came up with a solution to that waste of natural resources and the growing plastic pollution problem. His company, Scotland-based MacRebur, lays roads that are as much … Continue reading →UK tests cheaper, longer-lasting roads made with recycled plastic

Wherever you are in Egypt, the sight of garbage on almost every street has become the norm. Sewage and industry waste is still dumped in the Nile. With a population closing in on 100 million, the waste problem is not going away soon. While it can be a liability, IWEX turned it into an opportunity … Continue reading →Large Hills of Trash on Egyptian Streets are about to Turn into Business Opportunities

Using cargotecture – container architecture – Karim Rafla and Youssef Farag are upcycling discarded shipping containers which would otherwise be left to rot, to create everything from houses to restaurants, to possible governmental projects. “Architecture should speak for its time and place,” Frank Gehry once said. Ours is a time of excess, opulence, a time … Continue reading →How 2 Egyptian entrepreneurs are building incredible houses out of abandoned shipping containers

A pilot project to purchase garbage from citizens would start with two outlets in Cairo this month, the state newspaper Al-Akhbar quoted the governor of Cairo Atef Abdel Hamid. One outlet would be at Ibn Sender Square in Hadaek Al-qoba district and the other at Aswan Street in Heliopolis district, both would be run by … Continue reading →Egypt: Pilot Project to Purchase Garbage From Citizens to Start in Cairo

Researchers at Egypt’s Nile University are developing a way to turn dried shrimp shells that would otherwise be thrown away into thin films of biodegradable plastic they hope will be used to make eco-friendly grocery bags and packaging. Six months into their two-year project, the research team has managed to create a thin, clear prototype … Continue reading →Egyptian researchers turn shrimp shells into biodegradable plastic

Forget plastic and leather, your next wallet could be made from a more ethical and eco-friendly alternative—banana fiber. Kosrae, Micronesia-based startup Green Banana Paper tapped into banana tree waste, upcycling the unlikely material into stylish and sturdy vegan leather wallets. Green Banana Paper launched a Kickstarter to bring these eco friendly wallets to the global market and help improve … Continue reading →See how banana trees are recycled into vegan “leather” wallets in Micronesia

There’s money in that half-eaten peanut butter sandwich or leftover pizza now making its way into your kitchen dustbin, says Dubai Carbon. Wet organic waste such as leftover household food or restaurant waste can be converted using heat and spinning technology to create what are called biosolid fuels. And those environmentally friendly fuels can be … Continue reading →Dubai to produce bio fuel from leftover food

A new flapping wind turbine from Tunisia marks a revolutionary breakthrough in the field of mechanics. Until recently, scientists have been limited in their ability to apply new understandings of animal and human motion to machines, according to Tyer Wind. In the wind energy sector, this limitation has resulted in fairly simple and relatively inefficient turbines. Using 3D … Continue reading →Revolutionary flapping wind turbine mimics hummingbirds to produce clean energy

SolarWindow made headlines for their business-card thin solar coating for curved glass surfaces in late 2016, and now they’re going a step further with a new kind of flexible glass capable of generating clean energy. The firm created a super thin, bendable “glass ‘veneer’” that if applied to skyscrapers, cars, or even planes, could totally transform the way we produce and obtain solar … Continue reading →SolarWindow unveils new energy-generating glass that bends