- The Global Sun Oven
Back in the Stone Age, people used sun to cook their meal. Ironically, tell 1000 Green Steps how often do you hear about this solar powered cooking in our modern era? To overcome that issue, Sun Ovens International applies the principle of cooking which had been used centuries ago, and combines it with the available technology . These are the green steps The Global Sun Oven offers you!
- Bakes, Boils, or Steams Any Kind of Food with the Power of the Sun – No Fuel Needed!
- Create your favorite recipes as you feast upon natural sun baked treats!
- Reaches Temperatures of 360 to 400 Degrees Fahrenheit!
- Totally Safe – No Danger of Fire – Never Burn Dinner Again!
- Versatile, Easy-to-use, Portable as a Small Suitcase!
Available online at $279.00, but this price is totally reasonable since you could reduce huge electricity usage and no fuel is required to make this techie appliance work!
Happy Green Living!
- Samsung E1107 Solar Cell Powered Cell Phone
You’ve seen Green Roof, you’ve seen Electric Drive Transportation, you’ve seen solar panels, and you’ve seen wind energy already.
However 1000 Green Steps was wondering if you’ve heard about SOLAR-POWERED CELL PHONE? This is the latest innovation released by Samsung Mobile starting from June 2009 at India, Europe, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, and Latin America. This dual band phone has its own solar panel at the back just like at the picture.
It has many usual features such as FM Radio, MP3 Player and Games. What makes it special is that this Samsung Crest E1107 Solar-Powered Cellphone contains some unusual features such as a powerful torch light, mobile tracker (sends out an SOS in an emergency, and notifies you when the SIM card is changed), and a fake call feature so you can quickly get away from people you don’t like.
This phone is available in your local gadget stores starting from $59!
Happy Green Living!
by
parasshuram on December 31, 2010 in
Renewable energy
Boon Edam, a market leader in entrance technology, recently introduced the world’s first energy-generating revolving door as their green steps.
The door is part of the newly-refurbished Driebergen-Zeist railway station in the Netherlands. Architects and engineers designed the entire station with an eye toward energy conservation and sustainability.
Revolving doors already have a well-deserved reputation as energy-savers. For instance, compared to a conventional sliding entrance, Boon Edam estimates that this particular revolving door will save about 4600 kWh per year.
However, the company designed this door to do even more: it actually generates energy as every person passes through. Read more »
Foods from your garden or local farmers market are the freshest, tastiest and most nutritious. But the access to those foods only last for a few weeks or months every year.
The key to extend summer’s bounty of local fresh foods throughout the year is food preservation. While there are several ways to preserve, drying is an outstanding method to maintain the flavor and nutrients.
Although an electric food dehydrator works fine, it does use electricity, makes constant noises and occupies countertop space. A solar food dryer, on the other hand, is quiet and uses free energy from the sun.
If you get two days of sunshine in a row, a solar dryer will work for you. It dries large batches of food in one or two days. It conserves energy and saves you money.
Dried foods are compact and easy to store. They are great to eat straight or to cook with.
You can build an efficient solar dryer easily. The book “The Solar Food Dryer” by Eben Fodor provides information on many designs and building plans for solar dehydrators. Or read his article here.
- The Eco House
After having an ecotourism, purchasing eco-friendly gadgets by buying cell phone with eco-brands, this option sound a lot more interesting for you. 1000 green Steps had handpicked some beautiful design and came up with this stunning house. The Eco House is located in Spain, which has a roof line which sits wing-like above the building line. The roof form and distance from the building is key, it holds the solar panels at the correct angle to maximize effectiveness whilst also hiding them from view. A rainwater reclamation system will be installed and a photovoltaic system will supply the electricity to run a radiant heating system within the floor. Sounds like luxury, doesn’t it? It absolutely does to 1000 Green Steps.
Happy Green Living!
- Sun Jar Day and Night
Today 1000 Green Steps browsed some eco-friendly gifts, and found another eco-friendly gift aside from “Eco-man†gift box. Do you remember your childhood moments when you caught a firefly and you wanted to keep it in a glass jar forever? Well, when you grow up things changed and that jar will be filled with jam. 1000 Green Steps found a gift for your beloved ones to make their childhood dreams come true, and at the meantime saves our environment.
Jam jars is filled with jam. But this innovative Sun Jar will be filled with sun! Yes, this jar will collect sun shines and store it inside the jar so that you can use it for the night time. So you can as well say that this is a solar powered lamp which is automatically shines when it is dark.
This Sun Jar could be placed both indoor and outdoor because it is waterproof so rain will not destroy its mechanism.
So claim your free sun-light forever, right now! Sun Jar is available online at $34.98.
Happy Green Living!
- BLIGHT
It is very annoying when black out happens; since that means your house have no electricity to light up your activities. However, if we manage to reduce electricity usage by not using any lamps, that will do a lot of favor for our Mother Earth. By this BLIGHT gadget, I am sure everyone sooner or later will be able to live without any additional lighting equipment.
Inventor’s words:
This solar blind creates a link between indoor and outdoor, taking the daylight during the day and giving it back at night. The advantage of the Venetian blind is to have a large surface exposed to sunlight in a small, cumbersome object. With the revolving blades we can follow the course of the sun in order to catch a maximum of energy. Moreover we can adjust the position of the lamp to obtain various lighting effects. The produced energy can be used to supply a computer or other devices, by means of an inverter.
This green innovation is invented by Vincent Gerkens.
Happy Green Living!
A renewable-energy “oasis” which is a part of the Sahara Foundation project intended to be built in 2010 will serve as a proving ground for new technologies designed to bring green living to the desert.
The project is all about to build an artificial Oasis in the desert by converting sea water into fresh water, using combination of renewable energy source.
- Concentrated Solar power
- The seawater greenhouse
- Cultivation of algae
For instance, special greenhouses would use hot desert air and seawater make fresh water for growing crops, solar energy would be collected to generate power, and algae pools would offer a renewable and easily transportable fuel supply.In addition, planting trees near the complex would trap atmospheric greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide while restoring any natural forest cover that has been lost to drought and timber harvesting.
The planned research center, shown above in an artist’s conception, is part of the Sahara Forest Project—the center would be a small-scale version of massive green complexes that project managers hope to build in deserts around the globe.
These complexes could create food, fresh water, biofuels, and clean electricity while also offering local green employment opportunities, organizers say.
The U.S. wind energy industry installed 8,358 megawatts (MW) of new generating capacity in 2008, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) announced on Tuesday as their most recent green steps.
That’s good news for wind energy because 8,358 MW of new generating capacity . . .
- shatters all previous annual records
- swells the nation’s total wind power generating capacity by 50%
- represents economic investment of some $17 billion
- reflects 13,000 new jobs in the wind turbine and turbine component manufacturing sector
- positions wind power as one of the leading sources of new power generation in the U.S. (along with natural gas)
- and represents a savings of nearly 44 million tons of carbon emissions –the equivalent of taking 7 million cars off the road.
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The piano-manufacturing icon Steinway & Sons has installed the world’s largest solar-powered cooling system atop its factory in Queens, New York as their green steps.
The $875,000 solar-powered rooftop system will provide cool air to dehumidfy the company’s 11 acres of factory operations, thus protecting the pianos inside. The system, which will be complete this spring, is funded in part by federal tax credits and a grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
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