Feb. 11, 2009 - Eco-Friendly Products For Your Home

Some of these products are truly amazing, these products were in the recent edition of our Realtor® magazine and I really thought they were something special and need to be shared.

Smoke Free Fireplaces
Have you ever had a fireplace on your wish list when you are house hunting.  See a place you really like but no fireplace.  You really want a fireplace, well now you can have that place you fell in love with and a fireplace too!

These portable fireboxes can be placed anywhere, inside or out.  There run on ethanol (a renewable source) No pollutants and they do not need a chimney or any connection to your utilities.  Read more here Smoke Free Fireplaces  

 Composting
Have a small yard but would still like to compost.  Composting give you wonderful rich soil for your gardens.  This unit is 20x20x12, weighs 17 pounds and has the ability to compost its weight in scraps every 10 days.  It is odor free and all kitchen scraps including paper ( 2 tons of waste out of the landfill over it's life) Energy use is 5 kilowatt hours per month.

 Read more here Composting 

Your Plant Is Calling You:) AND Your Lawn TOO?
You will never over water any plant again!  Digital sensors in the soil let your plants send you a text message to tell you when you when they need water or light.  The plant will also send you a thank you after its needs have been met.  LOL on this one, it can also give status updates on Twitter so you can read all about your plants status there.  Read more here Plant Calling

Now you can hand over your lawn watering schedule to your PC and it will calculate from current weather conditions how much water your lawn needs.  Read more here Lawns

Heated From within
Now this one is a little more expensive than the ones above, but if you were building a new home and could have it incorporated as you build it would pay for itself over time.  This is called geothermal heat products.  The relatively constant temperature of the earth just a few feet below ground allows these products to heat and cool houses using 40 to 70% less energy than conventional systems.  To read more about this very interesting product click hereGeoExchange

 The building trends seem to be leaning more and more towards GREEN and Eco-Friendly products.  This is just a few that can help make a house a home and pay for itself and help mother earth also.