How cool is this, a completely battery powered jet-ski.
It’s from Icon and sells for $499, but if you’re looking for an eco-friendly way to enjoy nature, jet-skiing has just made the list!
The electric jet ski comes with a pre-mounted 36 volt battery that can be recharged via AC power. It also has a pretty decent 600 watt motor, and can carry a driver of up to 150lbs.
via Keetsa! Blog
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Treehugger posted a list of 5 innovative bike storage options, it’s a great read!
I personally like the Cyclepod (pictured left), not only because it looks really 22nd century, but I could actually see these placed around cities to promote bike use. Much better solution when compared to the random poles sticking out everywhere, although I’ve gotta say I’m thankful for those sometimes too!
Another great idea what the Bike Tree. This is another solution for public parking of bikes. You’d swipe an access card, and attach your bike to the tree. It then lift’s it up into the air and under a protected shelter. This helps to keep your bike safe from the weather and from thieves. Quite a brilliant solution!
via TreeHugger
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This is an interesting product which uses only oxygen to clean a pool, no chlorine.
If I had a pool this would certainly be in it!
If you’re sick of gulping chlorine, and lying red-eyed in a deck chair after swimming in your chlorine-treated swimming pool, there is an alternative. EcoSmarte pool cleaning systems offers an alternative to chlorine, and salt water pools. Their natural oxygen technology is 100% chlorine-free. The system manages and removes minerals without the use of salt or brine discharge, and is reputed to be easy to use, safer, and more effective than either traditional methods or a salt water pool.
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How cool is this, a fully-functioning LCD monitor completely made out of bamboo!
Okay, it’s not 100% bamboo, but the casing is made from 100% panda-friendly bamboo. This makes it a lot more eco-friendly, and a perfect example of green technology. These monitors are also lead-free.
They come in 15, 17, and 19 inch varieties, and sell from about $380 for 15inch to $570 for 19inch.
For an eco-friendly additon for your home or office computer, look no further than these bamboo monitors.
Combining modern technology with sustainability, these monitors incorporate the latest techy stuff with bamboo for the surround instead of nasty plastic - making it much more eco friendly.
You can get it from Nigel’s Eco Store
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Ah, the sun.
Back when I was a kid a sunny day meant playing in the sprinkler or selling lemonade, but powering my toys? That was something unheard of!
Solar power has been growing in the past couple years and now it’s made a jump to the toy market. These toys use the sun’s energy instead of batteries, so no more running out of juice or charging batteries for hours!
Well we’ve all seen hydrogen-fuel-cell racing cars, and now there are solar-powered toys as well!
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Green technology still hasn’t become mainstream in the corporate world. It’s still pretty common to see computers left on all night, lights left on all night, and lots of paper wasted
Google has stepped up to take the green challenge, and are building the largest solar panel installation to date right on their own buildings! The goal is 9,212 solar panels putting out 1,600 kilowatts.
It’s great to see a company that has realized the benefits of green energy, not only will they be helping the environment, but they will be seeing huge savings in electricity bills as well. They can even leave all their computers on at night, as long as the power is sustainable.
Good job Google! Don’t be evil.
In October 2006, Google announced a commitment to solar energy production and launched the largest solar panel installation to date on a corporate campus in the United States. Google has installed over 90% of the 9,212 solar panels that comprise the 1,600 kilowatt project. Panels cover the rooftops of eight buildings and two newly constructed solar carports at the Googleplex.
This installation is projected to produce enough electricity for approximately 1,000 California homes or 30% of Google’s peak electricity demand in our solar powered buildings at our Mountain View, CA headquarters.
We built this page to monitor and share the day to day production of clean, renewable energy from our very own rooftops. Keep checking in to see how we’re doing. We think the future looks bright!
via Ramsayhome
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In a new form of protest, blog action day will rally the blogging the community on October 15th with one goal: to bring awareness to the growing environmental crisis.
As it is now there are just under 2,500 blogs participating, generating a reach of almost 3 million. Every blog that has committed to participate will post on an environmental issue on that day. Sites are encouraged to donate that day’s earnings to a charity as well.
Ecogadget will be participating and will be donating that days earnings to charity. We don’t have a charity picked yet, but we’ll let you know before the actual event.
We’ll be posting about environmental issues all day, and we’ll be tracking what other blogs are posting about. It’s going to be an eco-posting-stravaganza!
If you have a blog I encourage you to join in, you don’t have to donate anything if you don’t want, just post on an environmental issue on Oct.15th, and register your blog at the Blog Action Day Website.
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Do you remember a time when toy cars were big and bulky, took hours to recharge, and only went for a couple minutes without dying?
Me too, and let me say, the toy cars of my day were never as cool and high-tech as this.
All these toy cars are powered by WATER! No emissions, no hours spent recharging batteries. Just fill it up in the sink and you’re ready to go.
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So everything else in your life has gone green, but what about your office life? Just think of it: millions of pages of paper printed for review, candy wrappers and styrofoam cups to keep you going (or is this just my job…?)
There are a couple easy ways to green your office life:
Turn everything off at the end of the day
There’s no sense in wasting electricity at night when no one’s there. Turn your monitor off and if your IT department will allow it, your computer off as well. Turn off any desk lamps and other lights, as well as scanners, printers, etc.
Use electronic documents instead of printing
Printing something just for review doesn’t make a lot of sense. Instead, use PDFs and emails to communicate. Your company will save money on toner or ink, and paper. It’s also a lot easier to organize electronic documents compared to having a mound of paper on your desk.
Overall the best thing you can do to green your office is to avoid waste whenever possible. If you can email it, don’t print it. Recycle as much as you can. Turn off your electronics when not in use. You might not be employee of the month for doing so, but you’ll feel better for taking that little extra effort.
Carpool to work
This one is often not used because people don’t know how to organize a carpool or don’t want to rely on other people. Once you get in the hang of it however it’s a great way to help the environment and save money on gas.
There are a couple carpooling websites out there which will help you organize a carpool as well. CarpoolTool is a great one for Canada. They will automatically match you with anyone close by if you have no one to carpool with. iCarpool is another website with similar features.
Lighter Footstep has more tips on greening your office.
Also check out Bootstrapper’s 50 ways to green your office.
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You’ve no doubt read about the water-powered alarm clocks, but have you ever seen a clock made out of paper?
This clock is made from “printed paper”, it’s like a printed circuit board, the circuit is contained on simple paper. You even crumple it up to turn it off!
This alarm clock is made from a flat piece of paper with the various circuits printed on it. It’s assembled by cutting out the various parts and sticking it all together. The display, batteries and processor are all created from a printing the circuit board on a normal piece of paper.
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