As the temperatures plummet lower with each passing day, staying indoors also cannot get comfortable without the central heating systems. However this comforting heating system plays havoc on our energy consumption and escalating bills. For such disturbing dilemmas, the Vent-Miser Programmable Energy Saving Vent steps in to save energy as well as money and at the same time keep your room cozy. Specifically programmed, you can heat only that section of your den that you intend to. This helps to save energy on not heating the rest of the unoccupied rooms. Simply program the temperature you would like the room to be and Vent Miser will allow or restrict airflow to keep that specific room at the desired temperature.
Instead of getting rid of rodents, why not employ them for an eco-friendly task? Tom Ballhatchet from London has precisely done that and is boasting of the most unusual paper shredder. He has come up with a hamster powered paper shredder for an industrial design project. With an aim to address issues like identifying fraud and recycling, Tom borrowed his friend’s hamster to power his eco-friendly paper shredder. It works on simple principle: The rodent has to run flat out for 45 minutes to shred one sheet of A4 paper. This shredded paper in turn becomes the fresh bedding for the helpful pet.
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Recycle on December 30, 2008
Liven up your bath area or jazz up the kitchen wall with these glass mosaics recycled out of waste glass products like bottles and more. Ideal to add a touch of glamour to your patio too, the latest green Calliope series by Hakatai will help to rejuvenate your décor in an uber-chic eco-style. These tiles comprise of approximately 50 percent of waste glass which is a mix of approximately 90 percent post-consumer and 10 percent pre-consumer material. Such a recycling does help to reduce the burden on the landfill and at the same time add a spark in to your home décor.
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It is human nature to be in check (about any misuse) only when constantly hammered about a certain fact. And so the Efergy Smart Electricity Meter has introduced the Efergy meter that constantly brings to notice about the misuse of the energy. It is effectively designed to let the user know about his/her power consumption every six seconds. Along with this the damage to your electricity bill as well as environment also comes to light. When lights are turned ON/OFF, the meter will display its effect on the energy utilized. Such a data is stored daily in an easy to access CPU memory. This helps to keep a regular tab on power consumption and accordingly change to eco-friendly habits. A must have for every house, for $145, such a meter will help to cut down on energy consumption, mounting electricity bills and also carbon footprints.
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As the hour demands functional, running electric vehicles, why are the car makers still toying with conceptual green cars? We need more of them hitting the production unit to hit the roads before it’s too late. To sync in with the current demand for green vehicles, Toyota too is intending to display a small battery electric-car concept at the forthcoming North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Based on a subcompact model the Japanese auto maker asserts that the production model will be ideal for city limits. Designed for short-range driving such as everyday shopping and other errands, it isn’t fit for long-distance driving. With an estimated tag of $20,000, eco-city-drivers may need to wait for long to sit behind the wheel of this ‘small battery electric-car’.
Along with other products, iGo, the leading developer of multi-device chargers for laptop computers and mobile electronic devices, is all set to unveil the first green laptop charger that virtually eliminates vampire power. Fine tuned with iGo Green Technology, users can charge their laptop and other devices from any standard wall outlet, including automatic shut-off and recovery to reduce vampire power. Such a green charger will help to cut down standby power consumption by 80% in comparison to the standard power products. This in turn reduces the burden on electricity bills too! You can watch out for this and more of iGO’s green products at the impeding 2009 International CES.
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‘One man’s junk is other man’s treasure’ Excuse me for repeating this adage again, but I couldn’t describe this news any better. However re-read it as one man’s fat is other man’s fuel and it will make more sense. Most of us know that liposuction is the easiest way to flaunt a svelte toned figure and right from celebs to layperson, every body has been through it. And Dr. Craig Allen Bittner, a plastic surgeon, who earns his bread and butter by sucking out fats from under the skin is using that same fatty trash to run his car. Inspired by his patients to do so, the doc fueled his Ford SUV and his girlfriend’s Lincoln Navigator with the biodiesel derived from the blubber. It’s the triglycerides in the fat that can be extracted and turned into diesel.
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Recycle on December 23, 2008
The fame adage, ‘One man’s junk is other man’s treasure’ stands the test of time as we bring to you five outstanding clocks recycled out of old discarded stuff. Time is the only factor that cannot be recycled and these recycled clocks distinctively demonstrate this hard-hitting fact of life. Uncommon Goods has a vast collection of functional products tailored out of trash and we picked out the five remarkable time telling devices that promise to tick away with green style. And since we cannot buy time, we can at least pay money for these recycled clocks that tell a story along with time.
5) RECYCLED YEN CLOCK ($40) – “Time is money” hold true for this clock as it is actually made of recycled yen. Made up of approximately 50 bills, a combination of 1,000, 2,000, 5,000 and 10,000 yen bills, each clock will showcase a different range of colors, as the Japanese bills come in green, yellow, and blue.
Frantically hunting for a cute yet entertaining gift for the love of your life? Take a look at the adorable pink Wind Up Hearts Radio that sports a eco-friendly feature too. Sporting a pink heart on the front, it flaunts a green power at the core. Eliminating the need of batteries, your gal will need to charge it up by winding the handle only. The auto search station finder makes it easy to tune in to the AM/FM radio. And the cherry on the icing is that the radio comes complete with mobile phone charging cable too. For £ 10 ($14), this pink eco-friendly radio will certainly bring a smile on the pink lips.
