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Image: Marks Barfield The historic city of Cambridge, UK will soon be home to Europe’s first real eco-mosque. Designed by Marks Barfield, the same design firm known for the London Eye and the Kew Gardens Treetop Walkway, the £13 million project will be built on a 0.4 hectare brownfield that was purchased two years ago, [...]

Even these sand crabs are nervous at the thought of a Henslow swimming crab invasion. Image credit: Balaji.B/Flickr Named after John Stevens Henslow, the Cambridge professor who gave up his place on the Beagle to Charles Darwin, Polybius henslowii—or the Henslow swimming crab—finds it most comfortable in the warm waters off the coast of Portugal. [...]

There’s been plenty of buzz around algae-based biofuels, but most remain energy-intensive, requiring those little green plants to be crushed to produce oil. Not so the biofuels currently under development by Joule Unlimited of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their genetically-engineered single-celled organisms actually “sweat” biofuel, and live on to produce more. We’ve been following this innovative technology–recently named by M.I.T.’s Technology [...]

CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 28, 2010 (ENS) – The world’s only three whaling nations – Japan, Norway and Iceland – could continue whaling for another 10 years, even while the current global whaling… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

Clearlite, a company which last year debuted a CFL called ArmorLite which it says sports a safety coating that helps to capture broken glass and potential harmful mercury should the CFL break, now has what is says is validated third-party certification to back up its claim of a safe CFL bulb. This third party verification of [...]

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 8, 2010 (ENS) – A moving pulse of heat traveling along a nano-sized wire of carbon atoms can drive electrons along, creating a powerful electrical current, a team of… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

Will Hales of Wicomico County, MD., describes how Mar-Delicious watermelons are produced on his farm. Name calling is so much fun. Maryland State Senator Richard Colburn, R-Cambridge, thought he was having some at our expense when he characterized environmentalists as watermellon-like (quoted in the headline of this post). Per the response from <a href="http://news…Read the [...]

Drivers seeking a bit of change in their automotive routine should be intrigued to hear about the Tesla right-hand-drive version of the Tesla Roadster vehicle, which Tesla Motors announced has entered production. Right-hand-drive cars are currently available for test driving at Tesla’s showroom, 49-51 Cheval Place in London’s Knightsbridge district. The right-hand-drive version of the [...]