Solar Holiday Lights

You may have seen interviews on television with people who have huge holiday light displays.  They have their whole house covered in lights, including their trees and bushes.  They often have lit displays in their yards, too.  One thing it seems like these people are always asked in interviews is how much their energy bill is for the month.  Those with huge displays often say staggering numbers.  While one strand of holiday lights may not seem to draw that much power, if you have dozens or, in some cases, even hundreds, it really adds up.

But what if you could light up your yard without causing your energy bill to shoot up for a month or two?  Well, there’s one easy way of doing that—purchase the Solar Holiday Lights kit.  This kit contains everything you need to make your home or yard look festive without causing your energy bill to become unmanageable.  Just set up the small solar power collector in a place where it will get plenty of light during the day.  At night, this stored energy is used to power the strings of holiday lights that are attached to the collector.

The Solar Holiday Lights kit comes in two different colors: you can have either all red lights or all white.  You can also select different lengths of light strings so you have exactly the amount of lights you need.  Of course, if you need more, you can always get two or three Solar Holiday Light kits.  You could even use them indoors if you placed the collector in a window where it will get a lot of sunlight.

If you love decorating for the holidays, the Solar Holiday Light kit is the way to go.  It makes your energy bill a little less without taking away any of the festivity of your décor.

Water-Powered Calculator

Solar-powered calculators have been around for years, but what good are they in a dark room, a shady park, or any area in which there’s not a good amount of light?  OK, so few people try to solve math problems in the dark.  However, the truth is that solar-powered calculators always seemed a bit flakey.  The display wasn’t quite as easy to read as a battery-powered calculator, and sometimes the solar ones didn’t seem to work right.

Well, now there’s an interesting new solution: the water-powered calculator.  It truly runs off of nothing but water—no batteries and no sunlight needed.  The calculator uses innovative new technology that makes use of the energy found in water molecules to provide power to the calculator.  All you have to do is remove the reservoir tubes, fill them up with plain, standard tap water, and you’ll have two months’ worth of power.

The water-powered calculator is completely pollution-free and drains no resources or creates any waste.  What’s even better, the calculator can also double as an LCD clock.  While there’s no alarm function on it, you can use this function to time yourself on math tests or as a way of keeping track of your study time.  The calculator features all of the standard, basic functions that all calculators do, including memory functions, percent, square root, and more.  If you know a math nerd who needs a fun, new toy to play with, the water-powered calculator will make a great gift.  Of course, it’s also very useful for those who use a calculator so much that they often have to purchase new batteries.

Solar Hat Fan

Working outdoors during the summer months can be sweating, exhausting work.  Gardening, tending to your flower beds, mowing the yard, or even spending some time outdoors can quickly make you feel flushed and warm.  Getting indoors and in front of a fan feels so nice, but you hate to miss out on some of those gorgeous summer days just because it’s hot.  However, you can enjoy both with the Solar Hat Fan, a unique little device that anyone can use.

The Solar Hat Fan doesn’t come with a hat.  Instead, it’s a small fan with a solar panel attached.  Both are connected to a clip that attaches to any hat that has a stiff brim, such as a baseball cap The solar panel can gather up enough energy after just a few minutes in the sun, and then the little fan powers up and blows nice, cooling air right on your face.  While the fan does work best in direct sunlight, it can still power the fan even if it’s slightly cloudy.  The adjustable mount lets you aim the fan at the part of your face that needs the most cooling.

There are other little fans out there, but they all require batteries.  Why waste the energy when you can have one of these neat little Solar Hat Fans that powers itself?  It will keep you cool outdoors (or even indoors, if you suddenly find your air conditioning is broken) and it’s completely green.

Herb Saver

Tired of reaching for the cloves or parsley only to discover that what was a fresh herb a few weeks ago is now limp and wilted?  Fresh herbs can add a great flavor and taste to any meal, but they seem to go bad before you can use them all.  How can you get around that?  Some herbs can be frozen, but they never seem as good as they do when they’re fresh.  Instead of throwing them in the freezer, why not try the Herb Saver?

This little canister-like storage device is a great way of keeping your herbs fresh and green for several weeks or more.  All you do is put the herbs into the clear, plastic storage section.  Then you fill up the base with a little bit of water and snap the storage section on to it.  The stems of the herbs sit down in the water, which helps to keep them fresh.  The base features a small port that lets you easily refill the water without removing the storage section.  A stainless steel basket sits down inside the base and is removable for easy cleaning.

The Herb Saver is designed to fit in any standard refrigerator door, and it works for many different types of herbs.  You can use it to store parsley, rosemary, thyme, and cilantro, just to name a few.  If you love fresh herbs but are tired of wasting some of them, this is the perfect solution for you.  Keep your herbs fresh, keep your food tasting great, and keep from wasting money on herbs that you end up throwing away.

Digital Zen Alarm Clock

Having trouble waking up in the morning?  Does your alarm clock’s alarm make a horrible buzzing noise that abruptly wakes you up, leaving you feeling alarmed and panicked?  Some alarms are so loud and annoying that there’s no wonder why people hate them.  However, the Digital Zen Alarm Clock is not like that at all.  In fact, it will help you gently wake up so that you start every morning feeling relaxed, refreshed, and ready to face what the day brings.

The Digital Zen Alarm Clock features Tibetan bell chimes as its alarm sound, and these gentle chimes are loud enough to wake you up.  However, they don’t do so in a jarring, sudden way like many alarms do.  Instead, the chimes steadily get louder over a ten minute period.  This way, you don’t wake up shocked.  You can also set the clock to do a countdown so you can time your workouts and other activities.

The clock has a number of different options and features.  You can adjust the chime volume as you’d like.  You can also set it to chime at a regular interval, and it features a lighted display so you can see the clock even in the dark.  It also has an option to chime every hour.  The entire clock mechanism is set is a gorgeous solid hardwood case that looks great in any room.  It’s completely portable, too, and can run off of either an AC adapter or two AA batteries.

The Digital Zen Alarm Clock comes in a light maple, dark walnut, or black lacquer finish.  No matter which one you choose, this amazing alarm clock is sure to help you start your day in a calm, refreshing way.

Vortex Digital Heater with Remote

Do you hate being cold all the time?  One of the best ways to conserve resources and money is to keep the heater set at a lower temperature during the winter.  Just by lowering your thermostat by a few degrees, you can dramatically lower the amount of resources you use.  However, this also can make your home feel dramatically colder, especially if you have drafts that come in under your doors or around your windows.  One of the best ways to keep your energy costs down, help the environment, and battle the cold is to only heat the room you’re actually in.  This can easily be done with a Vortex Digital Heater with Remote.

The Vortex Digital Heater will heat up to 80 feet by circulating warm air.  Unlike some other space heaters, it features a quiet yet powerful fan to make certain the entire room gets warm, not just the area directly in front of it.  Once you set the temperature, the automatic climate control makes automatic adjustments so that it never gets too warm or too cold.  The touch panel LED on top of the Vortex lets you easily see what you’ve set the temperature at, and you can use the handy remote to change it as necessary.  It has two different speeds, 800 watts and 1500 watts, and you can also set it to act as a fan so you can get some use out of the Vortex during the warmer months, too.  It even features programmable options so that you can have it come on a few minutes before your alarm goes off in the morning.

The Vortex is safe to use as well—it features over-heat protection and will automatically shut off if it’s tipped over.  It’s also cool to the touch, so you don’t have to worry about children burning themselves.

Indoor Compost (bucket) Collector

Many people throw their organic waste out onto a compost heap. It provides a great amount of fertilizer, and it helps to reduce the amount of trash bags and waste that goes into a landfill. However, before it makes it to the compost heap, many people toss their organic waste into a bucket or trash can in their kitchen and then dump this bucket once it starts getting full. However, while this does eliminate many different trips out to the compost heap (something that many people don’t like to do in the cold, winter months or when it’s raining), it can result in horrible smells if you aren’t careful.

So how do you control these odors? Well, you could constantly light candles and spray air fresheners, or you could use a bucket like the Bamboo Compost Collector.

This bucket may hold scraps of food waste, but no nasty smells will cloud the room. This is because it has an activated-carbon filter built into the lid so that all the smells are trapped inside. While it is bamboo on the outside and looks very nice, the inside features a 3.5 quart plastic liner. It’s stain free and can hold about a gallon of waste, which is usually about a week’s worth. The bamboo itself has a fresh smell to it that also helps combat the stench of the garbage.

It is important to note that the activated-carbon filter in the lid only lasts 3 to 6 months, so you’ll need to get a replacement for it if you want to keep the smell contained. You may also want to replace or at least wash the plastic liner on a regular basis so that it does not permanently absorb any of the smells.
Bamboo Stainless Steel
Replacement Carbon Filters (For Lid)

LED Holiday Lights

It’s time to start thinking about how to decorate your home for the holidays.  Christmas trees, menorahs, and other holiday accouterments will soon start appearing in stores everywhere, if they haven’t already.  One thing many people love decorating with is strings of Christmas lights.  These lights come in strings of solid colors, multicolors, blinking, steady…there are many different types of these festive lights.  However, if you have a ton of these lights strung around your home, you’ll find that they do actually use up a good amount of electricity.

That’s where the LED Holiday Lights come in to play.  These strings of lights provide just as much holiday cheer and festivity as standard lights, but because they’re LEDs, they use up a fraction of the energy and leave a much smaller carbon footprint.  They’re very bright and very efficient, and they don’t waste much power or money.  The LED Holiday Lights come in both multicolored and white versions.  Each string has 100 shining LED lights on it and is 34’ long.

Hanging these lights around your home is a great way of adding some festive, holiday cheer to the house.  At the same time, you can rest assured that you’re not adding to the world’s carbon footprint or spending a lot of power on something that is somewhat frivolous.

Keeper Vacuum Food Sealers

It seems like cooking for any good sized group of people always results in way too much food.  While sending some of these leftovers home with your guests is certainly an option, you always end up keeping some of the food.  Inevitably, it goes into your plastic containers.  Also inevitably, you have to sort through a stack of lids before you find one that fits perfectly.  After all of this mixing and matching, what happens?  You forget about the leftovers and end up throwing them away because they go bad.

Well, now there’s a solution to this issue: the keeper vacuum food sealers.  This very simple system of vacuum-sealing your food helps to keep your leftovers good for much longer than just a simple butter tub would.  Don’t ever struggle with disposable cellophane to cover jars or trying to find matching lids since these sealers will match just about any sized jar or tub you already own.  They come in five different sizes, so you’re sure to find small, medium, and large bowls or jars that match from what you already own.

All you have to do is place one of these vacuum seal lids on top of any type of jar, can, or bowl.  Press down in the center, and the vacuum seal will actually push out all of the oxygen in the bowl, making the food last up to five times as long as it would normally.  This means you have that much longer to eat those leftovers…or leave them in the back of the refrigerator!  But at least when you pull them out, chances are they will still be edible and not completely rotten like they would have been if you had not used one of these vacuum food sealers.

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