Tag: Appliances - Page 6
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Wine's Green Winners, Phantom Power and Saskatoon Berries
:: Think beyond organic when buying wine.
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Waste of Energy Dept: More Silly Appliances
Last year we had some fun looking at silly single-function appliances that cost money, take up space, and do almost nothing that you couldn't do just as well without them. We recently learned that this is a Wednesday tradition over at Unclutterer. Top
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Save Energy the Shagadelic Way: How to Insulate Your Refrigerator
How often do you get to start a serious post with a quote like that? Thanks to our friends over at Chelsea Green, for sharing their favorite project from Stephen and
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Graphic Of The Day: USA Residential Energy Consumption Outpacing Population Growth
A kind Thank You to the person at Carbon Kids Blog, for doing the heavy plotting; and, for tipping us off to the chart. Great work in progress.
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Father's Day Gift Guide
He's a good sport no matter what we deliver -- gamely wearing that outlandish tie for years to come. Yet -- wouldn't it be nice to gift something easy on the earth that actually makes his eyes
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Lotus Sanitizing System Ozonator for Your Home
Ozone, the miracle molecule The miracle molecule, ozone, can be made in your own home now thanks to an award winning appliance, the Lotus Sanitizing System from Tersano. If you are up on green technology, you already know that ozone is a chlorine-free
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Boing Boing Blogger Tests Solar Gadgets in the Woods
Well this is a nifty idea -- even if it isn't quite going as expected. Joel Johnson of Boing Boing Gadgets has packed his bags (and they are heavy, he says) full of solar powered gear and gone native. The blogger is currently somewhere in Harriman State
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Integrated Washing Machine-Toilet
Take two essential household appliances and stick them together, and what do you get? This entry to the Greener Gadgets Design competition: the Washup washing machine-toilet by Sevin Coskun. With a space-saving design that includes graywater recycling,
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Hummer of Fridges Goes Green
When I first heard that Sub-Zero and Wolf were going Energy Star I thought that this was akin to a hydrogen Hummer, a monster fridge or six burner range that somehow was insulated enough to get a decent Energy Star rating but still too big and too
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Call for Entries: Electrolux Design Lab 2008, "The Internet Generation"
The forward-thinking gang at the Electrolux Design Lab are at it again. After crowning E-wash the winner of the 2007 competition whose theme was environmentally-sound, commercially viable products, they've announced a call for entries for the sixth
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Most Huggable: Green(er) Fridges, the Million Tree-A-Thon, Decentralized Energy + More
Take a bite out of this review of the most and least contaminated produce, and get some tips on where to buy organic fruits and vegetables.
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Less is More: iwavecube Microwave
TreeHugger is always on the lookout for smaller, more space- and energy-efficient versions of the stuff we all use every day. Recently, iwavecube microwave from Sharper Image caught our eye; it's like the microwave you have now, but smaller. While the
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TH Forums Highlights: Your Top 3 Enviro Issues, Is Having Kids Green? + More
1) Forums user MyGreenTalk has a fitting question as we consider what's on tap for 2008: "What do you
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Survey: Is Your Hair Coal-Fired?
TreeHugger John writes "Having spent some time in the stores lately, I've noticed the vast array of electrically powered hair care appliances being sold at premium (eye-level) space. Curlers, flatteners, straighteners, liquid product dispensers, and of
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New Study: Cold Beers Warming Planet
One in three Canadian households have an old fridge full of beer cranking away in the basement or back porch. They tend to be older vintage power hogs; University of Alberta researcher Denise Young calculates that savings would total 1,165.7 million kWh
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Waste of Energy Dept: Automatic Martini Maker
We thought we had seen it all with the Roasted Garlic Express, but, alas, we had not. True proof of the decline of civilization as we know it is the Automatic Martini Maker. Gear site Green Head says: "A martini isn't exactly the hardest drink to make,
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Waste of Energy Dept: Silly Appliances
My favourite Talmudic aphorism is from the Rabbi who said "My life has been blessed, because I never knew I needed anything until I had it.". I do wonder how I ever got by without these two appliances. I mean, who could live without a marshmallow
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TH Forums Highlights: Water Heaters, Using Compost + More
1) "Is it a good idea to put my water heater outside?" wonders Forums user Maurices5000, who wants to move it from the kitchen to...somewhere that makes more sense,
