Posts under ‘Transportation’

If you love movies, you’ve probably heard of the service called Netflix.  The basic premise is that you pay flat fee to rent as many movies as you want each month.  Netflix mails the movies to you, you watch them, and then you mail them back in the pre-paid envelopes.  You then get another movie [...]

I decided to make a travel related post in honor of the holidays.  Who doesn’t love vacations?  How about pampering yourself in a eco friendly and conscious luxury environment while leaving a minimal carbon footprint?  Even if you can’t afford any of these trips, it never hurt anyone to dream about it. I’ve put together [...]

What is faster than a speeding scooter, more powerful than a go cart, and able to leap small dirt mounds in a single bound?  Yes, you are right.  Its Enertia!  Enertia the electric motorcycle.  This new electric motorcycle is the latest green vehicle to get me excited.    Long gone are the images of big guys [...]

We create energy in our everyday lives, which when unharnessed goes unused.   I’ve been seeing many designers coming up with ingenious ways to capture this energy and use it for the purpose of powering something which conventionally required electric or battery power.  Designer, Deco Goodman, is no exception.  Goodman created a headlight and tail light [...]

Charlie Trafford, a 69 year old Australian, has been making Biodiesel from oil for many years.  He would often go down to his local fish and chips shop, get their used oil, and make biodiesel.  Charlie wanted to expand his homemade biodiesel project and take it nationwide.  One problem though.  There isn’t enough used cooking [...]

I thought this was an absolutely amazing story.  Yves Rossy (AKA The Jetman) flew across the English Channel from France to England using only a jet pack attached to his back.  The 22 mile record breaking flight was made using 4 kerosene burning jet turbines attached to a wing.  Rossy flew at an average of [...]

Its amazing the number of useful things people are creating from things normally tossed into the garbage.  In the past I have seen mostly smaller companies taking part in sort of effort to reduce their footprint, which is great, but the real impact occurs when larger entities are involved in recycling.  The larger companies environmental [...]

Want to know how it feels to sleep flat in a 747 but can’t afford the first class ticket?  Now anyone can afford to sleep in a jumbo 747.  Jumbo Hostels of Sweden bought an old 747 from a bankrupt airline, converted it into a hotel, and parked it at the Arlanda airport.    Jumbo Hostels [...]

I was the world’s largest transformer fan as a child, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to see the news from Peugeot.  They have designed a shape shifting car that is the ultimate green car.  The futuristic Peugeot 888 concept car is super flat, aerodynamic, and fast when driving on the highway.  When [...]

A group of young designers entered Google’s “Innovate or Die Pedal Powered Machine Contest” with a unique machine which could positively affect millions of lives across the world.  This group of creative minds created the ‘Aquaduct’ and snagged the first place prize of $5,000.  The Aquaduct is a bicycle with a water storage unit on [...]