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EcoDrain Saves Energy from the Drain


Have you ever had the joys of a hot shower tainted by the guilt of the energy you were using to indulge your aquatic pleasures? Well the EcoDrain is designed to reduce the energy lost in running hot water.
The EcoDrain is a heat exchanger that attaches to your shower drain. Clean water is circulated in [...]

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iYo Charge Your iPhones with Yo-Yo Power


With Ipods and Iphones now a must-have household items - well, that’s a lot of charging energy! The people over at iYo maybe it’s time we stop charges them via outlets. Swedish designer Peter Thuvander calls his new invention “more fun than the sun.”
Is the energy of a yo-yo enough to charge an Apple gadget?

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ASUS U6V Bamboo Laptop


How’s this for a slick-looking piece of eco-friendly machine? Here’s a laptop that uses biodegradable bamboo used in its construction. The U6V Bamboo notebook’s panel and palm rest is composed of bamboo and measures 15.2 x 9.6″ with a 12.1″ wide-screen with the standard 1280×800 resolution.
The notebook uses a LED backlight wide panel for lower [...]

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Recycled USB Sticks


Why not go all the way when going green with the Recycle, a USB memory stick made from recycled newspaper?
The storage on this puppy ranges from 512 MB to 16GB and the simple design offers good size and shape so it doesn’t get lost - but don’t keep near your wine corks or trash, as [...]

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Fox News vs. Greenpeace on Recycled Toilet Paper


Fox News made light of a recent story on recycled toilet paper, which is easy to do because it’s natural to get goofy when talking about poo-related issues. However, Rolfe Skar Senior Forest Campaigner from Greenpeace took the matter a little more seriously, considering the millions of trees destroyed in the making of soft tissue.
“We [...]

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