Drink a lot of beer in the bottles and have too much recycling every week?

Don’t worry, you can turn your empty beer bottles into powerful solar-powered LED beer lanterns that will light up your house at night for free.

Al Gore and company have helped us to see that our planet is in peril. Lend a hand, make a toast, and help illuminate ways for saving Earth — all at the same time! It’s easy to do your part: recycle, refill, and recharge. Just take your fave beverage bottle (keep the cap), drop in a flexible solar panel, a step-up switching regulator circuit, a rechargeable battery pack, and a powerful LED, cap it, and you’ll have a self-sufficient garden lantern that is ideal for shedding some light on solving environmental issues. You will have to choose your bottle carefully, though. Clear glass rules. Also, wide-mouth bottles are easier to convert than narrow opening long-neckers. Like your grandfather who built ships in discarded bottles, put a modern spin on bottle building while being conscientious of your world. Cheers!

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It’s that time again, yes, it’s a Saturday and we are still working…AND it’s time for Weekly Wrapup of Eco-friendly and Green Posts from our Eco Blog!

1. Bill Gates invests in Bio-Fuel and we think that’s a great move by the billionaire.
2. Walmart will be offering hormone-free milk, wait, they added hormones before then?
3. Hemp Drinks may be the start of many hemp food products to come.
4. Check out Top 5 Resources for Green Jobs if you are an eco-geek.
5. Install Eco Showerdrop to save water and earth.
6. More cool eco-friendly bags…
7. Sarah Palin’s Energy Plan for Alaska cracks me up, now I really don’t want to vote for her.  (No offense Alaskans but it seems Alaska’s energy plan seems really redneck to me…I cannot imagine her as Vice President and carving up Mooses carcasses, why the hell would you want to do that I dont know…)
8. Eco-friendly bags made from old aircraft seats!
9. Eco-frienldy Hair Dryer found!
10. Yey, eco-friendly Webcam rules!

Well that’s all folks for the wrapup, make sure to check out the Eco-friendly and Green Blog if you want to knock yourself out with greenies.

Wow, here’s Clorox Toilet Bleach substitute that will make your toilet cleaner while saving earth from harmful chemicals going down the drain into the ocean.

All Natural Toilet Bowl Cleaner

1 cup vinegar
1/2 cup baking soda

The very simple procedure that goes along with this recipe is……Put the vinegar into the toilet bowl. Leave it be and have a cup of coffee…..give yourself say 30 minutes, so grab a magazine to read while you are sipping your coffee. Return to the toilet after you are finished reading, grad your toilet brush and dip it into the toilet. Take it out, and sprinkle some baking soda onto the brush. Scour the inside of the toilet with the brush repeating the sprinkle procedure until the baking soda is gone…..voila! Clean Toilet!

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Here’s the Top 10 Weird Gadgets roundup from our Weird and Bizarre Blog:

1) Baby Leash will keep your child within leash’s length from you at all times.

2) Solar chicken cooker by this Thai guy is AWESOME and saves earth!

3) The VooDoo Knife Set is great and versatile for holding knives and killing your ex the magical way.

4) The biggest swiss knife ever and totally useless of course.

5) When it comes to toilets, get this love-bird toilets for two of you.

6) Are you kidding me, a battery charger powered by batteries?

7) I love Van Gogh and you should love this Van Gogh mug that makes the ear disappear with hot liquids.

Stun Gun in the shape of Pink Seal is a great way to disguise your weapon.

9) Now here’s a melting clock that will get you high while sober.

10) Here’s another clock that reads only in 9s.

Well, that’s all the weird stuff for today, you can check out weird gadgets at the weird blog if you need more.

Saving earth or being socially resposible isn’t probably high on the list of priorities for those who drink a lot of beer but here’s a kegerator that might just change how refrigerators are built with no compressor.

Instead of relying on gasses similar to Freon, a process which can only be performed with energy-intensive compressors and heating coils, the new kegerators will rely on something called magnetic field refrigeration. In magnetic field refrigeration, electricity is introduced to a polarpolymer, causing the usually disordered molecules of the polarpolymer to become highly ordered. As this happens, heat is dispersed and the material grows cold. When the electricity is switched off this process reverses itself. And this doesn’t just mean more fun for the college crowd: someday Zhang predicts this technology will be used in everything from self-cooling gear for firefighters to chilling your CPU.

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With Europe going crazy with RoHS and lead-free-ness, we are still polluting the earth with over 500,000 pounds of lead each year over here in the U.S. from lead wheel weights that go on cars.

Why is this so important?

Well, lead is poisonous and we should do everything from using lead, especially if that might end up in the dirt.

Auto manufacturers/service technicians are now forced to moved to new metals such as steel and other metal alloys but we should have done this 2 years ago!

Sometimes the auto manufacturers are so concerned with money, they don’t really give a rat’s as* about the environment.

Environmentally-friendly California is putting an end to lead balancing weights on wheels and tires. The heavy metal neurotoxin is polluting the state’s ground water supplies, according to the Center for Environmental Health. The group claims that more than 500,000 pounds of lead weights are inadvertently flung off wheels each year, making it the state’s leading cause of environmental lead contamination. Under a court settlement approved this week, Chrysler and the three largest lead weight wheel manufacturers will all phase out lead in wheel weights by the end of 2009.

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Now is the time to add/replace your outdoor garden lights with something that’s solar.

Why?

Why are you spending money on electricity that you can get free?

Save earth and get some of these solar powered landscraping lights pleez.

You can get bunch of them over at Chinavasion here.

Check out Trackstick if you are interested in automatically logging your travels so you can view them later on Google Earth!

It works anywhere on the planet. Traveled locations can be shown via a red line that is traced on satellite photos and 3D terrain using the latest mapping technologies from Google™ Earth. Trackstick continuously records its exact route, stop times, speed, direction, and other valuable information, all of which can be quickly downloaded and viewed on your computer.

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I live in Sunset, Sanfran and watch boring ol’ earth sunset almost daily but sunset on Mars? Beautiful…

As part of their Image of the Day series, NASA posted a beautiful image of a sunset on Mars sent by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on May 19, 2005.

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