Looking for a greener hotel for your next vacation, head to country or coast. While it is possible to find reasonable hotels in Los Angeles and other most significant cities, which work hard for reducing their carbon footprint, rural hotels are often leaps ahead. With freedom to build environmentally-sound properties and for sourcing food from local farms, the seven recommended rural eco hotels make outstanding effort for reducing the environmental impact. Following are the seven eco hotels around the globe: 1. Eco Hotel - Il Cantico della Natura, Perugia, Italy 2. Eco Hotel - Palmlea Farms Lodge & Bures, Vanua Levi, Fiji 3. Eco Hotel - Centre Ecologic Llemena, Girona, Spain 4.  [...]

Cornwall Council issued a Public Tender Notice for solar powerplants and stated that it has posted this notice for advertising its intention to establish framework contract for contractors to be selected for maintenance, design, operation and build of solar energy generation projects situated within the regions of United Kingdom – Devon, Cornwall and Plymouth. The range and type of projects planned to be procured under this framework contract will range from domestic installations and smaller scale commercial to large scale solar parks. The projects called-off under this scaffold will differ in terms of electricity generation outputs from predictable 0.01MW to 5MW. The Kernow Solar Park, its first project to be acquired under this scaffold will be ground based photovoltaic  [...]

Toyota and Ford claimed that they will be working together on gasoline-electric hybrid engine for powering sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks. Both firms signed an agreement for sharing development costs, stating they need to produce technology more reasonably priced for customers and introduce it to the market faster. Toyota and Ford both sell hybrid vehicles, but trucks require different kind of system with power for hauling and towing hefty loads. Mr. Takeshi Uchiyamada, Executive Vice President for Research & Development at Toyota said that their partnership with Ford is a move for making hybrid technology more exclusively offered in pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. These  [...]

Pythagoras Solar that generates solar power and is also a provider of energy efficient, transparent windows today announced that it has been selected by Willis Tower, originally Sears Tower for collaborating on the pilot project to help provide on building’s energy efficiency and renewable energy enhancement goals. This particular pilot process was organized in the month of November 2011 on south facing windows of the 56th floor of Willis Tower or Sears Tower using an apartment incorporated photovoltaic solution, which as the capability to expand to surface area following sustainable modernization endeavours. Mr. John Houston, Executive Vice President at American  [...]

Radio Corporation of America or RCA Corporation said today that it will be manufacturing LED bulbs as part of larger home theater announcement. The company also stated that it produced chip on a board, which uses single efficient LED light source instead of several smaller ones. Mr. Bob Hatefi, RCA licensee BDC said that this design optimizes energy efficiency of a bulbs. As energy efficient lighting norms take hold in United States and other nations, expect more electronics firms moving deeper into consumer LED lighting. In 2011, Samsung launched a line of snowcone shape A19 bulb and LED spotlamps for sale in America. Vizio, a television manufacturing  [...]