Green Solutions Product Picks

1. Solar Powered Water Purifier

This is great idea for those place where fresh and clean water is in limited supply, simply because it looks like a standard water container, but once filled with ten litres of water the sun does the rest of the work for you. There is an indicator which shows a red or green face, green is good and when the indicator is on green there the water inside is ready to drink, this process will take anything between three and four hours depending on how contaminated the water is.

2. Ecotextiles

Ecotextiles are made from 100% organic cotton or other sustainably grown fibers, including hemp, flax (linen), abaca, ramie, silk, and bamboo. Fabrics are third-party certified to meet the Oeko Tex Standard 100, with some fabrics also certified by the Global Organic Textile Standard.

3. Organic Baby Bedding

Organic baby bedding at Cotton Monkey is crafted to protect your baby’s soft, beautiful skin. Tuck your baby into luxurious baby bedding made from cotton grown without chemicals and pesticides! Cotton Monkey organic baby bedding is made from 100% certified organic cotton fabric and batting that is not treated with any formaldehyde or chlorine bleach. The Cotton Monkey prints and colors are fun and cheerful, dyed/printed with non-toxic, fiber reactive, water based pigments and dyes.

4. Wattson

Wattson is an eco-investment that will keep on giving. The electricity monitor displays how much energy you are using at any one time, and converts that energy into watts or sterling to let you know how much cash you could save if you didn’t leave your appliances on stand-by or boil full kettles of water.

5. Solio Mobile Phone & iPod Solar Charger

Award-winning, compact and versatile - Solio stores power from the sun or socket; freeing you to recharge your mobile phone, iPod and other handheld devices anywhere, anytime. A fully charged Solio will recharge your average phone at least once if not twice, or your phone and top up your iPod. Solio's intelligent internal circuitry and Interchangeable Tip System lets you charge devices at about the same rate as their dedicated wall chargers. An additional connector is required for charging Ipods.

6. The ecobutton™ - PC and Laptop Energy Saving Device

Computers and monitors can account for half of the electricity used in a typical office. The ecobutton™ acts as a strong visual reminder and prompt for you to save electricity each time your computer is going to be left idle. Each time you take a break, such as a phone call, go for lunch or a meeting you simply press the ecobutton™ and your computer is put into energy saving 'ecomode' which ensures that both your computer and monitor draw only the same nominal power as when they are shut down. When you return to your computer you will instantly be able to continue where you left off.

7. Water Amplifying Adjustable Showerhead

The Delta Water Amplifying Shower Head with H2OKinetic Technology revolutionizes the showering experience. The dual setting shower head offers a water-saving comfort spray and a high-volume spray. The water-saving comfort spray operates at 1.85 gallons per minute, but don't think you're giving anything up in performance because it feels like the standard 2.5 gallons per minute. So you save water and energy. The high-volume spray operates at 2.5 gallons per minute and delivers a drenching spray that covers the entire body, and feels like much more water than expected. The internal engineering guarantees that the shower head will not clog up so you save cleaning time as well. A convenient volume-control lever adjusts the water settings--you decide to save water, and extend the amount of hot water in your water tank, or enjoy a drenching shower.

8. Western Digital Energy Efficient Hard Drive

The Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II is a new energy-saving RAID hard drive, specifically targeted at the Mac and the Windows market. It features a FireWire 800 and eSATA port for fast data access, such as for video, animation and audio applications. The drive unit is designed to use Western Digital's GreenPower drives, which use 30% less energy than conventional 3.5" hard drives.

9. Shake Control - Motion-Powered TV Remote Control

A group of designers (Lee Sung Hoon, Kang Sooyeon, Cho Eun Bee, Lee Junehwa and Kim Jean) have come up with a novel re-design of the beloved TV remote control. Exploiting the energy generated by a moving magnet within a coil, the remote control is powered by simply shaking the remote control. There is no need for a battery.

10. Matrix Total Home System

The Matrix Total Home System from NTI is an integrated appliance that combines a gas-fired condensing boiler and furnace, condensing demand water heater, and heat-recovery ventilator into a single unit, and it is pre-configured for air conditioning. According to the company, the system can reduce gas consumption by 30% compared with a conventional system, providing an annual fuel utilization efficiency (AFUE) of 94 for forced-air and 92.7 for hydronic heating, and an energy factor of 0.85 for water heating.