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A green newbie trying to assess her impact and transform her lifestyle to be more sustainable. Covers green projects and products.
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Gorgeous furniture made from reclaimed wood
Brazilian designer Carlos Motta was an avid surfer who noticed that there were gorgeous pieces of wood washing up on the beaches he frequented. This realization started him down a path to build furnit...
Visualizing wind power with the Firewinder
Sometimes I run across products that don't serve a tremendous green purpose, but I have to mention because they have that "cool" factor. So it is with the Firewinder. The Firewinder could just be call...
The Bamboo Phone charges up by 'whirling'
From the 2008 Greener Gadgets Competition comes a really cool idea for a cell phone called the 'Bamboo'. This cell phone recharges with a 'whirling' mechanism, not unlike the New Years' Eve noisemaker...
Green Gadget Envy: The Energy Detective
I love my Kill-A-Watt. It's so fun to plug into everything in my home and monitor my electricity. But it has some limits: my recessed lighting can't be put to the test, nor can most of my large applia...
Green Your Moving Boxes with EcoBox.com
Moving can be an enormous hassle. You spend days packing, organizing, lifting, hauling, agonizing over broken objects, and at the end are left with a sore back and a mountain of waste. The tower of ca...
AQUS greywater kit makes heaps of sense, saves water & money
Over half of the water that a household uses everyday gets flushed down the toilet. A company called Watersaver Technologies has figured out one straightforward way to recycle water throughout the hou...
Carbon Hero key chain tracks your travel emissions
For most of us, transportation is the biggest way in which we contribute to carbon emissions. But because carbon is invisible, it makes it difficult for us to witness the impact of our actions and imp...
Green Businesses: Tacos & Beer
These days, I'm constantly on the look-out for businesses that claim to be "green". Many of them are just hopping on the trend. They add a solar panel to a single one of their stores, and suddenly the...
Make your own Plastic Bag Dryer
While we're trying to reduce plastic bags in our household, sometimes they are an inevitability. Going to the airport, for example, requires us to break out a few ziplocks. Not just for the security c...
Green? Or Clean? With dishwasher detergents, that is the question.
In attempting to green my dishwasher, I stumbled on the complex question of dishwasher liquid. These are the green decisions that I hate: they are complex, there aren't always obvious alternatives tha...
The "Dark" Side of CFLs
Recently, we swapped out most of our bulbs for Compact Fluorescents. On the whole, so far, we’ve been pleased with the results. But there has been one slight problem: Cold start. We noticed it strai...