World Water Day 2014 aims to promote sustainable activities in the field of water and energy.

Researchers have developed an energy-efficient way to convert plastic shopping bags into a variety of petroleum products—giving shoppers another reason to keep the bags from landfills, roadsides and oceans.

Over the past 9 months working, Bac Lieu Wind power plan is now connecting to national grid with capacity of more than 20 Million kWh. Expectedly, in 2015, the power output could be more 16 times than current power capacity.

Santa Cruz company (USA) recently invented NTS SunCycle electric bicycle line that uses solar energy.

Green Square has a solar power system with capacity of 212 kWp and is connected to the building grid. The building is also a part of Big C supermarket which is considered as the first Green Supermarket in Vietnam.

The building with low building density around 50% is covered by surrounding ventilation, so it frequently receives winds all year round. The cool wind blow around the campus of the building that has created the comfortable feeling for everyone and helped cool the surface of the work.

Researchers have used the pigments in cuttlefish ink to create edible, dissolvable batteries, which could provide a safe, biocompatible source of energy for implanted medical devices.

PanaHome, a subsidiary of Panasonic Electronics Company (Japan), exhibited a house where the roof is made of solar battery panels.

Scientists at the Institute of Big Bang, England have used plants to capture energy and help illuminate the decorative bulbs on the Christmas pines. These pines will be placed in the Southbank (London) to create a spectacular sight for the first time in the world.

By placing a network of unmanned drones at high altitudes, a UK firm hopes to harvest energy from a variety of sources for transmission to ground-based receiving stations.