Posted on 09 December 2009. Tags: Christmas, Christmas Light Timer, Christmas Lights, gadget, GE, LED Christmas Lights, Roof, Solar, Solar LED Christmas Lights, solar power
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.
Posted in Indoor Appliances, Outdoor, Solar
Posted on 04 December 2009. Tags: Car, Christmas, gadget, GE, green gadget, green gadgets
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.
Posted in Day-to-Day, Energy, Handheld, Holidays, Indoor, Indoor Appliances, Outdoor, Solar, Videos, Wind
Posted on 30 November 2009. Tags: Christmas, Christmas Lights, gadget, GE
The Christmas Season has officially begun and it’s time for us to start thinking about eco-friendly holiday options. “Stor-Em” Christmas lights provide an eco-friendly way to store and lay out your Christmas lights – the video explains why.
Posted in Handheld, Indoor Appliances, Recycling
Posted on 27 November 2009. Tags: Emergency Battery Backup, gadget, GE, green gadget, green gadgets, Hybrid, Insect, new green gadgets, Pest Control, Roof, Soap, Solar, Solar Charging Kit, solar power, Solar Powered Flashlight, Sunforce
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.
Posted in Day-to-Day, Indoor, Outdoor, Portable, Solar
Posted on 21 August 2009. Tags: Concepts, GE, reducing energy, space heater
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 [...]
Posted in Energy, Indoor Appliances
Posted on 20 August 2009. Tags: Christmas, Christmas Lights, energy phantoms, GE, Resources, smart power strips
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 [...]
Posted in Energy, Indoor, Indoor Appliances, Reducing Waste
Posted on 15 August 2009. Tags: Car, gadget, GE, green gadget, plastic, print cartridges, solid ink, xerox
Ink and toner cartridges are expensive, non-recyclable, toxic and energy intensive. It’s not a problem only of the ink itself but also the plastic containers they must be housed in. The housing prevents the liquid solvent from evaporating and acts as the delivery system to the printer heads. For many years, this has been an [...]
Posted in Office, Recycling, Reducing Waste
Posted on 13 August 2009. Tags: Ecofan, gadget, GE, heat powered fan, wood burning stove
I’ve had enough with the ebb and flow of the world’s volatile oil markets, causing the price of home heating oil to bounce around like a tweety bird. There is nothing worse than being faced with purchasing $4 a gallon heating oil or freezing to death. At that price -10 degrees becomes sweater weather. [...]
Posted in Indoor, Indoor Appliances
Posted on 09 August 2009. Tags: gadget, GE, Solar, solar gadget, Solar GYY, solar net-book, solar power
This laptop is solar powered. It weighs 1.5 pounds. It’s only $220. Somehow, the Spanish company iUnika has developed possibly the coolest and most profoundly useable solar gadget to date, while simultaneously making it one of the cheapest laptops under the sun. Meet the all new solar GYY.
The newest trend in laptops is the net-book. [...]
Posted in Handheld, Indoor, Solar
Posted on 07 August 2009. Tags: Car, Concepts, GE, green technology, Paper, xerox
A major cost of even the most modern offices is still paper. Though stationary and Xerox has been mostly replaced by so-called paperless technologies, your company will always receive mail and always generate some form of intra-office paper. But that doesn’t mean that the recycle bin is the best we can do. There will never [...]
Posted in Indoor