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LED Christmas Lights for a Greener Holiday

LED Christmas Lights for a Greener Holiday

One way of making your Christmas season greener is by using LED Christmas lights instead of conventional Christmas lights. They are easy to find as most stores sell LED Christmas lights if they sell Christmas lights at all. Yup, it’s beginning to look like a green Christmas for everyone.

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Eco-Friendly Gift Ideas

Eco-Friendly Gift Ideas

Green gadgets can serve as creative and imaginative gifts – if inconventional ones. How about foldable portable cardboard speakers, or a hurricane lamp that runs on hand-crank power? If you’re looking for something innovative and environmentally friendly for this Christmas, these videos should serve to give you at least a few good ideas.

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Top Five Best Selling Green Gadgets and Products

Top Five Best Selling Green Gadgets and Products

There are many new green gadgets available in the market today. Their uses are varied, but the one thing they all have in common is that they are friendly to the environment. A testament to the fact that people are buying green gadgets is the increasing amount of such items that can be found for sale. Here are some of the top five best-selling green gadgets.

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Sunslates – Solar Shingles

Sunslates – Solar Shingles

Going solar no longer has to mean installing huge bulky solar panels on your home. Sunslate is a type of solar shingle which can be used to tile your roof in place of other conventional roofing solutions – but with an added benefit: they can also provide power to your home.

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Toyota Prius Goes Solar

Toyota Prius Goes Solar

One of the most popular Hybrid cars on the market is the Toyota Prius. Compact and economical, it’s starting price is listed as just $22,400, putting it within the realms of reality for the everyday, albeit environmentally-conscious, individual. The third generation of Toyota Prius, the 2010 model, has EPA ratings of 51 mpg in the city, and 49 mpg on the highway. That’s pretty good even for a hybrid, and is a step up from earlier Toyota Prius models.

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Dodge Zeo: Promises 250 Miles On Single Charge

Sleek, Stylish and Eco friendly, how could you ask for anything more? Perhaps 250 miles on a single charge? That’s the case with the Dodge Zeo, an electric concept car that operates with a 64kWh Lithium Ion rechargeable battery that can handle 250 miles without a recharge.
The Zeo isn’t just simply an earth friendly slug, [...]

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Daimler Chrysler To Release Emission Free Smart Car

Zero to 60MPH in 6.5 seconds, a sleek design that’s compact but stylish and plenty of torque – no, we’re not talking about the newest Porsche. This is the Daimler Smart Ed, a zero emissions, super eco-friendly smart car.

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Espresso Yourself? Is Home-Brewing Greener Than a Coffee Shop?

“If you go to a coffee shop every day, then you are a maniac who needs to stop right now and buy your own espresso machine. You’re wasting an absurd amount of money and resources.” This is roughly how home espresso machine manufacturers are marketing their products.
However, consumers are starting to learn not to swallow [...]

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When Winter Returns, Cut Energy While Staying Warm

Using a small and efficient space heater instead of central heating can save a lot of money by allowing you to heat localized areas while appropriately neglecting others. There is no point in heating your living room when you are sleeping is there? Well, maybe you’ve been kicked out of the bedroom, but that advice [...]

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Smart Power Strips Can Save the Planet, Your Wallet, and Your Computer

If you use a computer at home, you need a smart power strip.
Along with your desktop computer you probably have all sorts of peripheral devices hooked up as well.  If you’re like most people, you probably realize the day after turning your computer off for the night that you didn’t actually power down one thing [...]

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