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Discarded wooden spools make great chairs.

Compostable paper plates made from just leaves and water. Environmentally friendly and healthy!

Save water and energy with this eco-friendly cooking pot.

Who would have thought that old New York City subway cars could be put to such good use. This is much better than the landfill!

With boating season on the horizon I found this ecologically friendly boat very appropriate. It can be powered by  humans or by the sun.

This very comfortable chair is made completely from recycled materials.

Arizona’s public utility company will construct a 280 megawatt solar power plant near Phoenix.

Check out this eco-friendly solar charged lamp that almost looks like a flower in a pot when it is charging. This waterproof lamp can be used inside or outside. Simply turn it upside down to allow it to charge. The step-up converter inside the lamp produces significantly more power than conventional solar cells enabling it to be charged inside your home on the window sill!

Why spend money or pollute if you don’t have to? There is now an alternative to using laundry detergent and softener when washing a load of laundry.

This enormous tree powered building in Madrid, Spain will be built with recycled materials and will generate all of it’s own power needs by using solar photo voltaic cells. The trees will produce oxygen and provide a cooling environment to offset radiated heat in cities.

This green, fun, peppy and safe vehicle will travel 120 miles on one charge or you can choose the hybrid model which will take you up to 300 miles on one tank of gas! It will reach speeds of up to 90 miles per hour in roomy comfort! This vehicle is an amazing feat of green engineering and it's stylish design will turn heads and not empty your pocket.

We have two big freezers in the garage but it still isn't enough for all our meats and so forth so I came up with a way to maximize the storage space that is available to us. The key is in how you package and freeze the meat.

As the population increases, living area shrinks. Commons sense right? One way to overcome this is to build up. And that's what we do in cities. High rise offices and apartment complexes rule the day. And with population increase comes the problem of feeding the masses