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Giveaway: Eco-Chic From Blue Avocado


Help your mother be innovative and eco-chic even when doing the chores! With BlueAvocado she can! Their fashion forward, eco-chic, reusable bag system makes grocery shopping with reusable bags easy and fashionable.

The BlueAvocado gro-pak system features two “Veg” bags – lightweight, ventilated produce bags; a “Pod” – a collapsible, ultra-light, all-purpose grocery bag; a “Gro” [...]

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Giveaway: Eco-Chic From Blue Avocado

Giveaway: Stylish Yet Practical!


Let’s celebrate our special mothers! Win her this fabulous prize pack: from The Organized Parent, a re-usable shopping bag, a lunch tote, and a File and Go tote and from Barefoot Tess, a great pair of boots!
All you need to do to enter the giveaway is write a quick comment and fill out the form [...]

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Giveaway: Stylish Yet Practical!

New Power Saving Product Reduces Standby Power Consumption


We all know that reducing standby electricity is a sure way to reduce your energy consumption, saving you money & helping to reduce your household’s impact on the environment. The patent pending adaptor senses when you device switches to standby mode, and cuts all power to it, effectively removing standby wastage. It in turn uses [...]

Do Power Saving Plug-In Adaptors Work?


I was always skeptical about this devices.. Noticed them on eBay – and stumble upon the occasional website selling them with big claims of huge % losses.. Anyway – looks like they aren’t all that they are cracked up to be.. This retailer came clean after they found that their products didn’t work. Check out [...]

Solar Hybrid Lighting Tested In California


A handful of buildings in California are beginning to try a new kind of indoor lighting: sunlight without windows. It’s called hybrid solar lighting, and it is being marketed by a company called Sunlight Direct. During the day, sunlight is captured and channeled into lighting fixtures, then at night, the fluorescent bulb takes over. On [...]

Solar Hybrid Lighting Tested In California


A handful of buildings in California are beginning to try a new kind of indoor lighting: sunlight without windows. It’s called hybrid solar lighting, and it is being marketed by a company called Sunlight Direct. During the day, sunlight is captured and channeled into lighting fixtures, then at night, the fluorescent bulb takes over. On [...]

A Solar Carport: To Charge Your Car Or Home


A carport that can generate power from the sun is debuting at the Electric Vehicle Symposium 23 (EVS-23) this week in Anaheim, California. Created by a company called Envision, the Lifeport can generate power for the home, or it can used to recharge electric vehicles directly.

First Hybrid Car To Use Lithium-Ion Battery


Ener1, an alternative energy company, has become the first to successfully integrate a lithium-ion battery into an operating hybrid electric vehicle (HEV), an important milestone for the electric vehicle industry. The company’s battery division, EnerDel, will exhibit its lithium-ion battery pack in an operating HEV at the EVS-23 show in Anaheim, California Dec. 2-4.

Electric Eel Used To Power Christmas Tree


In Japan,  there’s an aquarium with an electric eel in it. And the eel’s electrical power is being used to energize the lights on a Christmas tree. It’s clean energy right? Each time the electric eel at the Aqua Toto Gifu aquarium touches a copper wire in its tank, it sends power that lights up [...]

Wind-Up and Solar-Powered Lanterns


Here are some lanterns that can be charged via the sun or via human power. Freeplay’s Indigo is a well-designed, rugged lantern. It’s one of those products that, when you hold it, feels extremely solid. This lantern shines with a cluster of seven bright LED bulbs. It won’t brighten a room, but at full power, [...]

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