Category Archives: Going Green

Installing solar powered yard lights

Solar powered yard lights are a great way to light up your garden landscape without any special wiring or digging. These lights are safe, budget-friendly and have a small electronic circuit in each one along with a photocell. The electronic circuit will automatically turn it off and on as the day changes into night. The ...

Installing solar patio lights

Installing solar patio lights are the green way to keep your environmental and yet the same times add warmth and beautiful ambience to your outdoor patio area. It\'s not hard and does not require wiring or electrical work. The easy way to make your lights provide the most illumination is by positioning them where they ...

Green Initiatives for Your Home

What\'s green nowadays? Other than forest reserves, you can become a green citizen by reducing your carbon footprint and live a healthier life.Here are some tips to get your acts together:EnergyAssess the elements of your electrical tools: production materials, energy efficiency, performance, carbon emission and utility bills. Here, observe whether your tools are serving the ...

Making Your Own Green Shopping Bag

It\'s stylish. It\'s trendy. It\'s cheap and everyone owns one. Welcome to the craze of green shopping bags.You are perhaps right to say that shopping bag is like a re-invention of market basket from the good old days before plastic bag was introduced. Owning a shopping bag is definitely worth the while since it is ...

Removing Ice the Green Way

Heat melts ice. But if there\'s no sun and a snow blower just pollutes the air too much, what alternatives are there if being eco-friendly is your main priority? Remove the ice manually, of course. But don\'t wait until the snow turn into blocks of ice. With a bit of intelligence, you will get the ...

What is Solar Wind Energy Storage

The solar wind energy is a combination of energy that comes from both the power of solar together with wind energy. When the sun warms the earth in varying locations and times thus causes several different portions fluctuating unevenly in temperature. This will enable hot air to rise and reduce atmospheric pressure on the earth\'s ...

The Requirements for Solar Hot Water

The solar hot water heating systems uses solar panels (such as evacuated tubes or flat plate collectors) which are also known as collectors usually installed on top of your house roof. It will collect heat from the sun and use it to warm the house water stored in a hot water cylinder. Below is some ...

What are solar power bags

The solar powered bag is designed to help its users in converting solar energy into electric energy which is normally portable and enable you to bring it along where ever you go. Its usage is to charge portable electric gadget and devices such as laptops, cell phones, cameras and I-pods.Below is some of the information ...

Putting Solar Panels over your Tile Roof

Doing any kind of task on a roof of your house is always a challenging work. You must be extra careful because with your weight, you can easily make the tiles crack. Too much drilling work will also cause the tiles to break. Although it is a challenging work, the usage of solar panels will ...

Creating your Own Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products

You can use a lot of simple ingredients to create eco-friendly cleaning products such as baking soda (bicarbonate of soda), essential oils such as tea tree and eucalyptus oil for their anti-bacterial properties, salt, lavender oil, olive oil, lemon juice and vinegar (distilled white) because all these items clean as well as the commercial cleaning ...

Saving money with going green tips

Saving money is the most thing people want to do right now amidst the economic downturn that we are going through. There are so many things that you can do by going green around your house, by doing so you can save more money as you desire. Other than saving money, going green can make ...

The right way to use a Solar-Powered Generator

If you want to purchase a portable solar-powered generator, you must first determine how many watts the machine can handle at one time over the amount of time you would use it for your home. The amount is different according to the unit size and number of watts, thus the more power that you choose, ...

Repairing your Solar Water Heating

For having an orderly and long lasting solar water heating system, a proper maintenance and repair schedule need to done so that you can monitor the parts and components such as pumps, valves and their controls, insulation, wiring, pipes, seals and the solar collector. By understanding how the solar water heater works will enable you ...

Save Energy through Lighting

Lights are installed in every corner of the house and the energy consumption is around 20%. With the rising cost of living standard in a gloomy economy, there is even more urgency to save the pennies. This is possible with the right usage of lights.Everybody talks about energy saving lights. Do you know what are ...

Rechargeable Batteries, One of the Best Products in Town

Now we all know that mercury is a very powerful yet poisonous mineral which cannot be dissolved once attached. This is why the disposal of batteries becomes very crucial to prevent mercury being emitted into the land or water which would eventually transfer to us.As much as there are contentions about the mercury content in ...

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