Love camping, hiking, fishing or hunting? For all you survivalist wanna-bes, there’s a new solar gadget for you. The Scorpion is a solar-powered radio and flashlight that can also be used to charge up your phone, MP3 player, camera and more. Manufactured by Eton, the Scorpion is one rugged device! Solar panels are incorporated into [...]
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Technological advances have allowed us the ability to turn off lights in our home from our cell phones and instantly broadcast to our Facebook followers when we’ve purchased a latte or gone for a run (including distance, pace and time), if we choose. It only makes sense, then, that we are able to remotely control [...]
Internet giant Google announced a significant humanitarian gift last week. A donation of over $200,000 from Google.org (its philanthropic division) will send 3,000 solar chargers to the International Medical Corps (IMC). The IMC provides health and relief services to third world countries. Its one of the primary organizations donating relief efforts to earthquake-stricken Haiti. The [...]
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From Booklist Customarily, McEwan’s novels spring from a catastrophic incident in someone’s life, either a calamity that causes physical distress or a psychological trespass that causes emotional instability. For instance, in Enduring Love (1998), a man plunges to his death from a balloon, and in the aftermath, one witness continues to menace another witness. On [...]
Solar charge: Take this solar gadget charger everywhere you go to charge up almost any devise with a USB port. A great birthday gift too. From RedEnvelope. (more…)
Could it be that a solar powered dairy farm makes happy cows? The Happy Cow Creamery just outside of Greenville, South Carolina is the first commercial organic dairy farm that has installed a solar hot water system. The energy saving solar panels helps “green” the operations even more than before. You can practically see the [...]
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If you think that living in a city run on 100% solar energy is science fiction, think again. In Babcock Ranch, Florida, the community describes itself as the “City of Tomorrow,” and claims to be the first municipality run entirely on solar power. Drawing on clean energy generated by a utility scale solar power plant [...]
