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Stainless Steel Water Filter Bottles
Whenever I’ve seen personal use water bottles that also filter water, the bottles have always been plastic, which makes me go hmmm, since so many people want stainless steel. Then recently I saw a new bottle from Water Check Biz – the Seychelle Personal Water Filter Bottle that comes in a stainless steel version. According to Water Check Biz this is “The world’s first stainless steel filtered water bottle and has a patented filtration system that removes 99.99% of pollutants like chlorine, voc’s, pesticides, herbicides and heavy metals.”
Features of the Seychelle include…
Made with high-quality food grade 304 L.N. stainless [...]
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Happy Christmas Day!
Wishing you and your family and friends a very peaceful, merry, safe, and green Christmas day!
If you’re reading this I suggest stopping right this second. Get offline, go hang with the family. Go outside for a nature Christmas day walk even! But later you might want to come back and browse the following, all of which will help you pack up the holidays in green-minded style.
Save paper and NEVER buy a calendar again.
Green kid storage solutions – for all those new toys.
Use up Christmas leftovers.
Recycling your holiday gift wrap.
How to replant a living Christmas tree.
Get ready to green your holidays [...]
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Green your wood burning fireplace
With winter here it seems appropriate to discuss wood fireplace issues. Now, first of all wood burning fireplaces or wood stoves are not so green. They smell nice, look cozy, and keep your home sort of warm, but there are better green options if you have a choice. For example a pellet stove is a good green choice if you heat your home frequently with fire. Pellet stoves are also a smart financial move as you can sometimes score a tax credit on them.
That said, I have more experience with wood burning so we’re going to discuss that today. When [...]
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A Fast & Organic Christmas Breakfast
Christmas at my house usually goes something like this – kids up early, stockings, BREAKFAST, then gifts. My son is not so into sweets so it’s not like I’m worried about him binging on Christmas candy, but a fast and casual breakfast is just sort of a tradition on Christmas for my family. You get to chill and be together before gifts which is nice. If you do have a kid who will binge on candy early in the day though, breakfast is also extra useful to keep them grounded.
Following is an idea for a quick and fun organic holiday [...]
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Bake an Organic Gingerbread Lotus House
I used to write a blog called Offbeat Homes, which was awesome fun, especially at Christmas because I’d highlight kooky crazy gingerbread homes. I sort of miss that so I thought I’d post one of the coolest organic homes I featured in years past – the gorgeous organic GingerLotus by one of my old school favorite architects Michelle Kaufmann.
If you’ve got some free time today or tomorrow then this is a special and fun project made with organic goods, and beautiful lines, much like Kaufmann’s real homes were.
If you don’t have quite so much free time on your hands [...]
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Greenest Shades of Eco-Friendly Electronics
There are various shades of eco-friendly electronics – choose your green level the next time you need some new electronic gear.
Greenish electronic gear:
Look for electronics that carry the Energy Star label.
If you’re trading up electronics check online to see if the company who manufactured your equipment has a recycling program.
If you can’t find a manufacturing recycling program check with Earth 911 to find a place to recycle your electronics.
Greener electronic gear:
Before replacing broken gear with new gear see if you can fix it.
If you really need to upgrade and your old gear is still good, donate it to a [...]
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Simple green steps for the new year
Green goals are excellent, but there’s no need to go overboard. Starting slow means you can concentrate on making sure you follow through on the little green tasks you choose before you try to build up to bigger goals naturally. Following are four totally easy green goals you can take on for 2010 – they won’t take much time, won’t cost much (if anything), and are a great start if you’re new to green living.
Ditch common paper trails – two common paper trails include bills and notes. You can easily leave these trails behind in 2009. Get some whiteboards, leave [...]
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10 Most Popular Stories of 2009
2010 is quickly approaching and we can only hope that it holds even more innovations that will benefit the world we live in. As we move forward, here’s a look back at the stories you clicked on most during the past year. From gadgets to urine fuel, these are the top ten.
10. Power-Generating Shock Absorber is Surprisingly Strong A bumpy road could become an asset if these electricity-generating shock absorbers make it to our cars and trucks.
9. Lithium Supply Fears are Total B.S. Don’t let the media frenzy fool you: why a lithium-crisis is not around the corner.
8. World’s First Floating Wind Turbine Switches On Floating wind turbines could be installed in deep water, keeping them out of coastal views and shipping lanes.
7. New York State Agencies Switching from Bottled to Tap Another government entity realizes the environmental benefits of tap water over bottled water.
6. Charge Your Gadgets While You Walk or Ride This Personal Energy Generator harvests the energy from your everyday movements to keep your gadgets running.
Map of Countries’ Emissions, Pledges
The AP Climate Pool kept us well informed over the course of the COP15 negotiations. Part of that great coverage is contained in this interactive map of the participating nations’ current emissions and the reductions they’ve pledged to make. You can find plenty of articles analyzing what was accomplished (or not accomplished) over the last two weeks, but this map quickly lays out the current emissions trends around the world.
Some of the interesting things revealed by this map are the huge percentage increase in emissions by China (136.2 percent) – close to triple that of number two Turkey (58.8 percent) – and the nice size reduction in emissions by Russia since 1990 (23.8 percent). The U.S. has actually seen a decline in emissions of 1.8 percent, but we’re still the largest emitter per capita, so that’s not saying much, which also makes our pledge of a 17 percent reduction less than adequate.
Image via AP
Baby death due to insecticides
Late last month we heard some bad news about insecticides being linked to autoimmune disorders, and now some far worse news. Insecticide exposure earlier this month resulted in the death of a 10 month old baby and both the baby’s mother, 25-year-old Elizabeth Whitfield, and her 2-year-old son, Kenneth, were hospitalized with severe respiratory distress, also due to insecticide exposure.
Investigators on the case noted that “Whitfield and her children had only lived in the home a short time and she was trying to deal with a serious insect problem.” About half a dozen used insect foggers were found in the [...]
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