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| Recycled Laptop Bags |
| 2007-05-21 05:00:20 |
Getrecycledproducts sells laptop bags made out of old billboards! They write “pattern pieces are cut with consideration for their positioning when constructed but the original billboard image and the approach taken in laying out the cuts ensures no two bags are the same.”
The bags are completely waterproof, durable and the strap is made out of a seat-belt. No two bags are the same!
The bags are $77.00 each.
Interested? Click here for more information.
bag, billboard, billboards, Eco Friendly, Gadgets, laptop bags, laptop bags, pattern pieces, Re use, re using, recycle, recycling, seat belt, urban gear...
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| Al Gore’s New Book: The Assault on Reason |
| 2007-05-20 22:00:07 |
Al Gore’s new book The Assault on Reason examines the Western political landscape and its inability to collaborate and to solve global problems.
According to the Washington Post, the book’s editor, Scott Moyers, describes the book to be about how “the public arena has grown more hostile to reason,” and how solving problems such as global warming is impeded by a political culture with a pervasive “unwillingness to let facts drive decisions.”
It looks like it will be a thoughtful and provocative piece that will raise a lot of questions, about combating climate change and governmental policies, from America’s favorite losing politician.
The Assault on Reason will be released May 22, 2007.
Pre order on Amazon here!
al gore, assault on reason, Celebrity, climate change, climate change, global warming, Green Books, political landscape, Politics, washington post...
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| 10 Easy Steps to Reduce Your Carbon Emissions |
| 2007-05-20 20:00:45 |
MarketWatch recently published 1o simple things anyone can do to reduce your carbon emissions! They are simple and practical and I’ll let you in on a little secret — you don’t have to do them all at once! Pick and choose the tips that work best for you. As you get comfortable, feel free to add new changes and make new changes to keep your carbon emissions low and yourself happy and healthy!
#10 — Buy Locally Grown Food
Did you know that nearly 10% of all the energy consumed in North America goes towards the processing, production and shipment of food? And that if you buy local and fresh foods, you’ll reduce energy! And support local farmers! How great is that?
#9 — Take a Different Vacation
If you pledge to only vacation within 100 miles of your home, not only will you save loads on energy and travel costs, you’ll discover neat local places you would have never considered exploring before!
#8– Get your office to go green
Does your office ...
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| No more pedal power needed |
| 2007-05-20 19:00:39 |
For cyclists who find those steep hills a bit of a challenge there is a new product that may in the future make all those struggles a thing of the past.
VETD a UK based environmental technology development company, are to market their new lightweight hydrogen fuel cell powered pedal bike, the bike are available in three different sizes, which will produce between 14 to 156 volts or up to 220 volts if it is used as art of a power pack, the fuel cell will hold up to 40 liters of hydrogen.
Hydro cell as it is known as, is a lightweight rechargeable hydrogen fuel cell, that has an internal metal hydride store, this is a more comical version as the battery pack core is alkaline, compared to the other ones which have a platinum core and therefore more expensive.
The bike has a range of around 60 miles on one tank of the hydrogen fuel; the fuel is the standard grade, which is considerably cheaper than the other types of hydrogen fuel.
The price of this bike is around $1400 (£700).
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| Treat your pet to a hemp carrier |
| 2007-05-20 18:00:39 |
Pet carriers come in all shapes and size, and now they come made in all different types of materials.
These particular pet carriers are made from 55% hemp and then with 45% cotton, for the vents in the side of the carrier, sea grass have been used, to make this strong they have fitted a reinforced bottom, there is nothing like getting half from the car to the vets, only to have the cat fall out of the carrier, when the bottom has given way.
To make life easier, there is a padded strap and inside there is a fully washable fleece.
Source [Great Green Pet]
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| A Solar Powered Tent! |
| 2007-05-20 18:00:19 |
Eureka! has produced a tent which gets charged up on sun! It comes with an LED unit you place on the outside during the day for 8 hours, and it will provide you with 8 hours of light at night.
This idea seems like a good one, but there are lots of solar powered head lamps and lanterns that could provide the same amount of light at night. Also, keeping nylon tents in the direct sun all day can weaken the material. However, if you are they type to forget things when you camp, having a built in light supply means there’s one less thing you’ll be likely to forget.
Unless you forget the tent!
This model sleeps 5-6 and costs $229.95.
Interested, or just want to find out more? Click here!
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| Formula One to use Bio Fuels in 2011 |
| 2007-05-20 12:00:53 |
The Formula One bosses have decided that by the beginning of the 2011 season, all of the cars competing in the world championship will be powered by a 2.2 liter V6 turbo charged engine that will run on bio fuel.
Bio fuels are already being used in motor sport, by Audi and Peugeot in their LeMans series cars, and have done very well on it, but Formula One cars running diesel engines, it just doesn’t sound right, after all would this mean the introduction of diesel powered high performance cars such as Porsche, Ferrari and Aston Martin?
If they manage to pull this off, then this will certainly add some serious creditability for the future use of Bio Fuels as a long term viable replacement for gasoline in all types of vehicle.
Source [Auto Blog]
Auto, bio fuels, creditability, diesel engines, Eco Friendly, formula one, Green Transportation, high performance cars, porsche ferrari, turbo charged...
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| Recycle your jeans and get a pair of sandals |
| 2007-05-20 11:00:42 |
There must be thousands of pairs of jeans around that are no longer worn for some reason or other, maybe they are old fashioned, worn our or just don’t fit anymore, so apart from throwing them away, what else can you do with them?
If you live in the UK, you can send your unwanted jeans to a company called Recycle Your Jeans and in return they will send you back their product, which is a pair of sandals made from the denim of other peoples old jeans.
A few little facts of interest:
Recycling textiles saves on pesticides, fertilizers, processing chemicals and energy.
If every person in the UK used one item of recycled clothing per year, the amount of processing water saved would fill an average UK reservoir.
Our Kalahari sandals have the lowest transport footprint of any sandal on the market because they are made in the UK, not 5,000 miles away as 99% of the footwear on sale in the UK is.
Source [Jamble Mag]
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| Eco shoes, for the trendy girl |
| 2007-05-20 10:00:06 |
Some girls just want to have the best names possible, some prefer to be an ethical shopper and try to buy products that are kind to the planet and they may look ok too.
Terra Plana are an eco friendly shoe company who make sure that girls can get the choice of the latest styles and be eco friendly at the same time, they make that they use the best products available and that they try to use as many recycled materials as possible, this could be anything from old coats right up to parachutes of all things!
Having sourced as many of the material as necessary from local sources to save of transportation costs and mileage, they will then only use natural products to complete the shoe construction such as vegetable dye and latex.
The shoe in the picture is the Juniper and will cost £95 ($190).
Source [Hippy Shopper]
Eco Friendly, eco friendly, ethical shopper, fashion, recycled materials, shoe construction, terra plana, transportation costs, vegetable dye...
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| 5 Not-So-Green Cities |
| 2007-05-20 01:00:12 |
To finish off his great multi-part article, Jacob Gordon decided to leave us on a less positive note. It just goes to show, that as great as things are going, there is always more to be done! So, if you live in one of these cities — or even if you don’t — hat are you waiting for? There’s an environment out there to save!
Cities That Need Saving
#5: Columbus
Poor air and water quality, along with a prominent fast-food industry can’t help this city.
#4: Dallas
Lack of public transit users and saturated highways leave Dallas’ air smoggy and unwlecoming.
#3: Detroit
Anyone really surprised about this? Being the capital of auto-makers make this city more gray than green.
#2: Houston
Houston is another city that falls victim to congested highways and no one on the subway.
#1: Indianapolis
There doesn’t seem to be an active green movement here. If no one wants change, how can it happen?
To read up more about these cities — don’t worry, Go...
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