Buying Green: 9 Goods for Sustainable Living [Slide Show]
Water-saving faucet adapters, green pet gear and more
Buying Green: 9 Goods for Sustainable Living [Slide Show]
- CITY SCRAPS Apartment owners can compost with this barrel, sized for a roof-top or small backyard. Spinning the composter ($199), done by hand, helps table scraps decompose faster. Real Goods claims the seven-cubic-foot-container produces as much as 85 pounds of odorless compost a year if used at full capacity--which might be a little much for your windowsill herb garden... Courtesy of Real Goods
- THE DRIVE TO SAVE Good driving techniques can lower fuel consumption. The PLX Kiwi driving monitor is attached to the dashboard and wired to the on-board diagnostics port. It shows the driver when gas is being wasted and what can be done to improve efficiency, and gives a score each time the car is driven... Courtesy of PLX Devices
- HANG ON TO IT A wooden bag dryer like this one ($15.95) may look unusual but it might encourage more people to reuse plastic sandwich bags. Just wash ‘em and hang ‘em. There really is no convenient replacement for such bags, but tossing out 20 million a day isn’t convenient for the environment... Courtesy of Reusable Bags
- CLEAN RIDE Various soaps are made from natural ingredients such as vegetable oils and organic herbs and spices. But these cleansers are also manufactured without using any electricity. The employees at Real Goods literally pedal on bicycles to power the machines that mix the ingredients in soap vats... Courtesy of Real Goods