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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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Earth Friendly Christmas Light Organization and Storage

Earth Friendly Christmas Light Organization and Storage

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.

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Stop Buying Bottled Water With a Water Bottle Purifier

The new Katadyn Exstream Personal Water Bottle Purifier is a self-contained filtration system in a handy bottle. Drinking plenty of water is important, but to buy bottled water every day is to throw your money and harmful plastic into a landfill. We reported recently on paper water bottles as a way to cut down on [...]

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iPhone Solar Sleeve

Solar chargers for your green gadgets are the best way to maximize their eco friendliness by staying off of the grid.  And although reducing your consumption of gadgetry and products in general is the best way to stay above-board in the environmental circles, buying a green alternative can be a good way of reducing your [...]

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Charging by Elbow Grease: The YoGen Manual Charger

When green gadget lovers and designers dream up ways to power electronic devices, we often get caught up in the glamor of solar and wind advancements while neglecting the oldest and most reliable source of power mankind knows: elbow grease.  Handheld solar and wind powered chargers can be extremely convenient and a great way to [...]

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The Green Dream Machine

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.  [...]

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Wound by Wind

We have all seen the myriad solar chargers available like the Solio Mono reviewed here, and they are great eco instruments. But some of you may live in a stormy area with long periods of darkness like Canada or Scandinavia. Or maybe you just want something a bit different. Then consider the wind [...]

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Green Power On The Go: GoBe Solar Briefcase & Power Hub

Even in our Green technology driven society portable solar power units are still rare, while devices that can also handle the charging power needed to keep a laptop running are even harder to come by. That’s where the GoBe solar charger kit comes into play.
The GoBe offers a simple briefcase adapter that opens up to [...]

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Kindle 2: The Super Paper Saver

Although the greenness of Amazon’s wireless e-book reader is surrounded by some controversy, there is no denying the mountains of paper and energy electronic reading medium can potentially save.  This great gadget is as thin as a magazine and as light as a paperback book, but can download and store thousands of books, newspapers and [...]

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Flexible Power with Brunton SolarRolls

The most exciting aspect of modern gadgetry is versatility; our phones surf the web, our computers do… well, everything, and now a single source of mobile power can charge all of it.  SolarRolls from Brunton are the original flexible consumer end solar panels and still lead the pack in reliability and functionality.

The waterproof solar panel [...]

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