Posts from ‘June, 2009’

You can charge your MP3 player off of one of several different solar powered charging systems, but what if you want to blast your tunes in your office or outdoors?  If you want to listen to music without using a lot of power, you might be interested in the Gramo Speakers, a set of speakers [...]

One thing I never thought they’d improve on was the toilet seat.  After all, if you’ve got a padded, heated toilet seat, what else do you need?  What else, really, could you even do to the toilet seat?  Well, someone came up with a way of making the toilet seat ecologically friendly.  The result: the [...]

Looking for a nifty new toy for your kids but don’t want to buy something that uses non-recycled plastic or takes a lot of batteries?  If you want to find a cool eco toy (yes, there’s an emerging category of ecological toys), then check out this awesome six in one solar powered robot kit.  I [...]

One task many people find annoying is mowing their yard.  No one likes to get out there in the heat and push a mower around, and even those with a riding lawn mower have to go through the hassle of being out in the hot sun.  You can always hire someone to mow your yard, [...]

One of the best ways I’ve found of saving power is to know how much power I’m using in the first place.  Nothing makes me change the setting on my air conditioner faster than seeing my monthly bill and noticing how much power I’ve used.  However, it’s hard to gauge just how much power you’re [...]

I’ve read about some cell phones like Samsung’s Blue Earth that have a solar panel on them to charge them up.  However, these small panels don’t really help that much when it comes to energy, especially if you use your cell phone a lot.  They’re just too small to collect enough power, especially for those [...]

As a guy, I’m not even going to try to understand what is in all of those little jars, tubes, and cases found in many women’s bathrooms and medicine cabinets.  The world of beauty products is a huge mystery to me.  What I do know, however, is that many of those jars, tubes, and cases [...]

Back when I was in school (and even when I was down to my last dime in college), I would take my lunch instead of paying to eat in the cafeteria.  During the cold months, I’d heat up some soup at home and put it in a thermos to keep it warm.  However, the thermos [...]