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Green LA Girl has an interesting guide to having a fun and eco-friendly Halloween. Among her tips are a bunch on how to make the best use of your pumpkin: buy it local, buy it organic, cook it, eat it, and compost what’s left.
I would add to this guide: buy free trade, [...]
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Get prepared for cold weather and icy sidewalks with the all natural Bare Ground Deicer! This environmentally-friendly deicer will last for weeks with a single application, much longer than salt deicers. Bare Ground works both as a deicer and a great anti-snow agent. Here’s a more detailed description of the product:
Bare [...]
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Ginkgo biloba is unique tree species that can live for hundreds of years. It is also a popular medicinal plant. A ginkgo tree growing kit is a perfect gift for the gardener and nature lover. The kit includes seeds, soil for growing, soil for germinating, a seedling pot, a guide to [...]
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Eco Travel Logue is an excellent guide for those who want to travel with the least impact on the environment. This website has information for all travelers, and will help you plan all aspects of your trip. They can help you plan your trip, find environmentally friendly lodging, visit eco-friendly destinations, etc. [...]
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Uganda will be the home to the first solar powered airport in Africa, reports AND (African News Connection). The project will cost US $40 million and will take about 8 months to put into place. The construction starts next year. What exactly is going into the solar powered airport?
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Gardeners and lovers of the outdoors and nature will enjoy this unique Bird Song “IdentiFlyer”. This handy gadget will help you to identify the sounds of dozens of wild birds with a collection of bird call cards. You can add more and more sound cards to create a complete collection. Bring [...]
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I was just checking out the EarthToys.com emagazine for this month and found a very cool article about eco-friendly gadgets and innovations. The article is heavy on solar technology, and talks about such unusual things as solar powered trash compactors and light sensitive dyes that are making for some very unique solar technologies.
“Nanotechnology [...]
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These cool Halloween egg planters would make a perfect eco-friendly gift for a young friend, son, or daughter, or yourself! And they’re available just in time for Halloween, too! Remember those weird and wild Nyokki Pets we featured a while ago? If you don’t, let’s go over it again, shall we? [...]
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If you’re not quite ready to put potentially expensive solar panels up on your roof, there are still some excellent ways to take advantage of solar energy in the home. For example, you can use solar garden lights like this Westinghouse Europa II Solar Light Set to provide lighting throughout your landscaping.
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Here’s a product that I can’t believe didn’t already exist.
A company called Fat Spaniel has made a device that measures how much energy each of your solar panels is collecting, so that you can accurately see how much money you are saving by using solar panels. Surprisingly, the way most people measure, if they measure [...]
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