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SteriPEN - Portable Water Purifiying Gadget

Posted November 19th, 2008 by Dan (EnviroGadget Writer)
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The SteriPEN is an eco-friendly gadget ideal if you’re travelling to areas with typically unsafe drinking water. The SteriPEN will allow you to refill your water bottles (rather than buy bottles from a shop) and ensure the water is safe before you drink it. The pen uses shortwave ultraviolet light which damages the DNA of bacteria, viruses and protozoa, rendering them harmless.

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BioDegradeable Picnic Plates and Utensils

Posted August 11th, 2008 by Dan (EnviroGadget Writer)

Most western societies have a very throw-away nature, one of many reasons our landfill sites are filling up fast. I applaud this use of eco friendly technology, a biodegradable picnic set, as it means it doesn’t matter if the plates, etc get left around in a field after a festival or picnic, as it’s all 100% eco friendly. If you want to keep the kit, you just wash it after use (as water is a vital part of the breakdown process).

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Toilet Humour - Actually a Crap Idea

Posted July 28th, 2008 by Dan (EnviroGadget Writer)

The “Shit Box” is a wonderful trademark name, despite not being a product you’d chat about with your parents or other prudish family members. You’d need to be a fairly liberal individual to want to use the Shit Box, which is an eco-friendly portable toilet. All components are biodegradable, yet the toilet box itself is re-usable. Inside the toilet are special bags that will happily breakdown if left to compost.

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Hand Powered 2-way and AM/FM/NOAA Radio

Posted July 9th, 2008 by Dan (EnviroGadget Writer)

If you’re stranded in the middle of nowhere, the last thing you need is to be scrambling around for batteries so that you can radio for help. You might have a solar panel, you might even have a few AA batteries floating around. But batteries don’t last forever, and solar powered chargers take several hours to charge standard batteries. The emergency crank radio exploits a hand-powered dynamo to give you several hours radio use on a 2-way radio.

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Turn Your Water Bottle Into A Solar-Powered Lamp

Posted June 6th, 2008 by Dan (EnviroGadget Writer)

LightCap 200 - Solar Powered Camping Lamp

The LightCap 200 is a smartly designed solar-powered light that converts standard-sized water bottles (such as those made by Nalgene®, Camelbak® and GSI®) into a useful and safe lamp.

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