What is your favorite green product?

e85

 

Soap nuts.

They grow on trees. Non-polluting, non-irritating, you can make an all-purpose cleaner from them easily that is non-toxic.

 

I like baking soda. It works on stainless steel and porcelain like nothing else, and replaces a wide variety of toxic cleaning products.

 

Tap water....I homebrew and it's the main cleaning agent as well as ingredient in my brews (I usually filter, but the hardness is pretty soft here). I usually clean most my equipment by just rinsing.

 

Water - Ever since a thread here pointed out that you can get your windows as clean as any spray just by switching to cotton and water. Most all paper products have a whitening bleach in them that contaminates anything you wipe with them (regardless of what spray you use). I have also found that water works "good enough" on so many other cleaning operations formerly using chemicals.

 

my lawn, it cools the air around my house without electricity and converts carbon dioxide.

 

LED lamp
4.1 watt consumption (long life) vs 40 watt tungsten equivalent (short life)

Ken@Japan

 

ok . . . I'll bite

Big Corn and Ethanol Hoax - Walter E. Williams - Townhall Conservative

If it's any consolation, sources other than corn (for using perfectly good energy for fermenting) are not as horrible a waste being converted into transportation fuel.

My favorite green things? YUM . . . Chile Verde!! Spinach!! & artichoke hearts!!
Oh yes ... solar panels too.
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Its better to drink the ethanol.

 

Ethanol and indeed most bio-fuels are losers, often taking more BTUs t produce than they give in energy! Don't burn food!

Other than that, I have to say, my off grid, solar panel powered house! Have run a generator to charge the batteries exactly 4 hours in the last 5 months, for a total fuel consumption of 1/4 of a gallon of gasoline. We do use about 8 gallons of propane per month for the fridge, water heater (demand) and stove.

 

The Motherese Cloth Diapers we use on our kids. No disposable diapers going to land fills, no gel liners sticking to their boy-bits and only one time expense.

 

My solar panels.

 

good for you! i thought we were the last gen to use cloth diapers. i read an article about a company called diapers.com. started 5 years ago with a website and a garage full of disposable diapers. now, they are all trillionaires and selling a gazillion disposables every day.

 

Among us crunchy granola eatin parent types cloth diapers are still popular.

 

I regularly use glass bottles as a portable water bottle instead of using some kind of plastic bottle that I don't know if it will leak chemicals or get entirely clean. Glass can be sterilized and cleaned over and over again. Not only that, when I recycle it, it can actually get melted down and truly recycled again, not down-cycled. For the cost of CRV in California (provided I'm planning the purchase of the original contents in the first place), I get a good solid bottle that can be used for a multitude of things. Plus the size choices are great... 1/2 liter, 1 liter, etc.

This and like hyo silver said, baking soda.

 

Good thing you didn't say grass. We're talking 'green' as in environmentally friendly, not colour.

 

i knew i would get a fish with that one!:rockon:

 

Product & Green don't really go together.

If we ignore that little thing - my favorite will have to be the EV.

 

Must agree with Ken, LED technology will take us a long way.
Solar panels on more roofs to reduce distribution loss is also key.

- D