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Summer is almost here and it’s time break out some serious gear for the green home. These are the things you’ll want to borrow, beg or steal to make your sustainable office, home life, or back yard a green living dream.
Best Recycling Gear to Beg For:
About 46 million people are drinking water which has been affected with trace amounts of pharmaceuticals. And biohazards aren’t any more water-friendly. But boiling water is a drag. The Steripen water purifier works for campers as the modern equivalent of a camping tricorder.
The Steripen inserts an ultraviolet light emitter into a int of water and voila, 90 seconds later drinkable water is on! This is the Star Trek Generation. The Steripen can minimize after-travel distress of the Montezuman variety.
About the size of a tube of Krazy Glue, this battery-powered device works for the traveler in questionable watering holes as well as campfire emergencies. Steripen is available at camping equipment and sporting good stores nationwide. Nice to have, it costs about $100, making it a surefire gift for anyone in the hiking/daypacking business.
Best Recycling Gear to Borrow:
If you don’t have a drying rack, ask your neighbor to borrow one. Drying racks save huge amounts of unreturnable, nonrenewable electric energy spinning dryers into oblivion. Alternating days gets more use out of a drying rack and most people don’t do laundry every day.
Best Recycling Gear to get at a Steal:
Ever wish you could resuscitate that dropped conversation but your battery is flatlining? If you had an AM/FM Eton solar-power radio with chargeability for cellphones, you would be tanning while babbling, on the sun’s tab. Just imagine if you never plugged into the wall again!
Tip: the sun never runs out of power.
The USB recharger connection can pump up your cellphone using stored solar energy. How green is that? Soon you might be able to power your laptop as well as your car with solar baked battery power. Try going one hour a week at home on the sun’s power and save on your power bill.
Eton makes a great model, and a hand crank option can get sound and music into a silent home. Put the kids to work earning their dinner even if the lights are on. These are pricey now, but as soon as copycats and aftermarketers get in on it, you can start seeing some savings on Ebay.
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