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Green uses for six everyday products
When you choose products that have many uses and that are natural you’re making green choices. Obviously that’s a good thing for the earth and your personal health. Another perk is you save cash. It’s so much cheaper to buy a big ol’ box of baking soda and some lemons for the year than a bunch of toxic cleaners.
There are plenty of non-toxic products that have all sorts of handy household uses, health uses, and other cool uses, for example…
Vinegar – I’m so not a vinegar fan. I can’t stand the scent. However it does have a multitude of uses [...]
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Edible Coffee Cookie Cup
You can buy a reusable coffee mug for sure, which will keep your coffee experience nice and green, but the typical reusable coffee mug lacks the pizazz and fun factor of the edible Cookie Cup. The Cookie Cup is a totally edible cup designed by Enrique Luis Sardi with the innovation team at the Lavazza Training Centre and Cataldo Parisi, head chef of the confectioner’s kitchen at Number 10 San Tommaso.
Cookie Cup is made of pastry but covered with a special waterproof icing. After you drink your brew you eat the cup, feed it to the birds, or toss it [...]
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Greener Black Friday Deals
Personally I ban Black Friday each year. I don’t love what this holiday represents from a consumer or green standpoint and I honestly do not believe it saves you any money. That said, IF you must buy something on Black Friday, why not try to make it eco-friendly. Shipping can be a nightmare for your carbon footprint, but on Black Friday so can all that time wasted idling in traffic so your best bet is to look for online deals. Online gives you a much better chance to find eco-friendly products as well since most brick and mortar stores still [...]
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Refilling Plastic Water Bottle Not Safe
There was a special television program on a while back (on PBS I believe) about a guy who was trying to be more eco-friendly by using the same plastic water bottle over and over. I think he had clocked in a year+ of using the same water bottle. It seems like a better idea than buying new water bottles, but in actuality it’s not a very green or healthy act.
KOR One Hydration Vessels (shown above)
A recent piece from my local news site features this idea of reusing a disposable plastic water bottle over and over and the advice came down [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving & Organic Leftovers
Wishing all the Blisstree Green readers and their families a happy, fun, and safe eco-friendly Thanksgiving. Make sure you get outside and enjoy the beautiful autumn weather and scenery – way more fun and healthy than sitting around the TV after you eat. See below for some ideas about what the heck to do with all those organic leftovers you’ve got hanging around.
Organic Thanksgiving leftover ideas… (note, remember you can switch out conventional ingredients for organic on any recipe you like)
Turkey and Roasted Vegetable Quiche
Garlicky Mashed Potato Pie & Hotcakes
Sweet potato pancakes
Organic turkey noodle soup
Sweet potato cornbread
Turkey pasta toss
Turkey [...]
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The Best Rated Headphones Under $100
I’ve tested a lot of headphones in the Reactual Labs. I’ve discovered that there are, in fact, great quality headphones priced under $100. The three of the best rated headphones are: Sennheiser, Grado Labs and AKG. Other popular brands found in electronics stores tend to have inferior sound at this price level. Here are the [...]
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Green Birthday Party Planner
So, today’s my birthday and being that I like to post about birthday stuff for said birthday, let’s look at some ways to have a fab birthday while keeping it eco-friendly.
First some old school links and tips… Last year, actually the entire time I was blogging over at Tree Hugging Family, I’d get a little birthday crazy from time to time. All of the posts are worth a look if I do say so myself
Eco-friendly themed birthday cakes! Fun galore. Or maybe you’d just like a nature themed cake? Plus if you need the actual cake take a [...]
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Three easy ways to save water
When it comes to water most of us in the U.S. use a lot more than our fair share. If you don’t believe me I highly encourage you to check out Flow, an amazing movie all about water use. However, it’s easy to cut your water use with some basic tactics. Try the following three ideas, or even just one or two to cut both your water use and water bill.
For about $5 you can install some basic faucet aerators. The step seems small but one nice little aerator can save an average household around 6,000 gallons of water per [...]
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Radar Absorbing Turbines Prevent Aircraft Confusion
The U.S. Military has recently expressed concern about Maryland offshore wind projects because radar could identify spinning turbine blades as low-flying aircraft, potentially disrupting its training missions in the area. Turns out the UK Military is blocking wind projects for similar reasons. If only there were a cool, high-tech solution to this?
Turbine company Vestas and technology consultants QinetiQ have developed what they’re calling Stealth Turbine technology – a way to hide turbines from radar by using radar absorbing materials in their construction. During a test project using the materials on a Vestas V90 turbine, radar measurements were taken and the turbine’s radar signature was drastically reduced. The small remaining signature would easily be eliminated by air traffic and air defense computers as insignificant.
If these invisible turbines were deployed, the UK’s Department of Energy & Climate Change beileves 5 GW worth of blocked wind projects could be given the go ahead. Just in case the technology doesn’t make it out of the test phase, researchers in the UK are also working on updating the main air navigation system to differentiate between turbines and low-flying planes.
via Gizmag
Waste Heat Could Power Computers, Cell Phones
Close to 60 percent of the energy produced by burning fuels or generated by power plants is lost as excess heat. Computers, cars and cell phones all have to get rid of excess heat to run properly, creating a significant energy waste. Researchers at MIT believe they’ve developed a way to reclaim a majority of that wasted energy and turn it into electricity.
Such an advancement in waste-energy harvesting could produce laptops and cell phones that run twice as long on a battery charge and highly efficient power plants, cars and planes.
The team carried out experiments to see how close to the Carnot Limit – the theoretical efficiency ceiling when converting heat to electricity – they could get. Current devices only reach about a tenth of the limit, but using thermal diodes, the team was able to achieve 40 percent and they think as much as 90 percent is possible.
The secret to this new level of efficiency was reducing the amount of space between the hot surface and the conversion device, a quantom-dot semiconductor.
A company called MTPV Corp. is already working on commercializing this technology and sees great potential for its use in electronics and transportation.
via MIT News
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