The Amazing Solar Kettle

Contemporary  Energy’s Solar Kettle uses the sun’s rays to boil water on the go. The  lightweight thermos-like device is perfect for camping or picnics, allowing users to make hot  beverages or sterilize water without electricity. Using fold out reflectors, it ...

A flat-pack OX truck for the developing world

  The OX would be shipped in pieces, packed six to a standard shipping container (which hold only two standard trucks, Norman says). The vehicle then emerges, Transformer-like, from a box formed by its own trailer area. Assembly is an involved process by Ikea...

Are these ‘the most efficient vehicles on the planet’?

The brainchild of Rob Cotter, a refugee from the automotive industry, Organic Transit’s inaugural offering is the tear-shaped ELF: a tricycle built with a 45 percent recycled aluminum frame and equipped with a weatherproof 80 percent recycled composite shell, an...

Exhibit – Earth Day San Francisco 2013

   A huge thank you to all the schools who sent in art to Earth Day San Francisco 2013 at Civic Center Plaza!       Shout out to Saint Thomas the Apostle School in San Francisco for sending in the most art work!