Eco Friendly Product Guide

Everything in your home should be a work of art — even your nightlight!  This beautiful, recycled glass nightlight is made from green Perrier and cobalt blue Skyy Vodka bottles.  As the light shines through, it casts shadows and gentle, colored light to the room. This is a great gift idea for any new homeowner!

Each unique nightlight is packaged in an individually stamped box with recycled shredded paper and an original poem by the artist.  You can purchase the Water and Sky nightlight on SweetOrganicsandNaturals.com for $38.

I like them, don’t you? I like especially that you can buy just one light and get all these colors. It changes dreamily from one color to the next all on its own.

The blurb describes these lights as “an ever-changing rainbow”. I’ll say.

If you feel like “adding a special accent to your nighttime garden, yard or walkway” then this is the product for you.

Solar Star Lights have the following features:

• Color shifts gradually from red to green to blue
• They are sold individually
• Each light includes one stake and three decorative finials (starburst, lily and hummingbird)
• 29″ stake, finial approx. 3″, overall height 32″
• Made of acrylic, plastic and steel
• Light runs from dusk to dawn with full charge
• You can place multiples in a cluster for dramatic effect
• On/off switch
• Solar panel and battery pack built into stake

Order now from Gardeners.com for $24.95 for one, $20.50 each for 2 or more, $18.00 for 4 or more.

These lights are like something from a retrospective movie about the 1960′s. I bet my grandma really had lights that looked just like these.

America really is the land of opportunity. An outfit in New York calling itself Scrapile and comprised of two chaps called Bart Bettencourt and Carlos Salgado has as its sole mission to recover discarded scraps of wood from New York’s woodworking industry and create things out of the scrap. They make benches, dining tables, accessories, stools, side tables and whatever you want custom-made. Of course, nothing matches, everything is unique.

There are outlets for Scrapile products in Seattle, Brooklyn, Houston and Los Angeles.

Call these what you will — hanging patio lights or solar lanterns or eco-friendly Chinese lanterns or paper tree lanterns or Shoji Japanese party lights — they are beautiful no matter what name you choose.

The manufacturers are not so far wrong when they implore you to “hang these Japanese-inspired solar lanterns from a trellis or tree and enjoy their moonlike radiance”.

It works like this: yellow LED lights (the best type when it comes to solar power) are encased in paper-like weatherproof nylon. The light automatically switches on at night after being powered by the sun all day. The set includes an AAA rechargeable battery and a metal hanger. The shade folds flat for storage.

These beautiful imports are available from Real Goods individually ($29.00 each) or in sets ($79.00 for 3).

Of all the crazy “eco-friendly” products available now, these cute little solar lights are certainly among the least offensive.

It is a bit hard to see just what those little lampshades are made of (I am afraid they are constructed of some unnamed recycled garbage) and yet these lights have a certain whimsical charm about them. Each of your five lights has a differently shaped lampshade – hummingbird, dolphin, star, dragonfly and butterfly. The one featured here is the hummingbird, I think.

You should consider buying a set of these if you want to introduce your children to sustainable energy (these lights are solar-powered and turn on automatically when the light levels drop) and want them to think you are in touch with your inner child. The nice part is that the lights are so small they will fit even in a container garden. Each Solar Animal Light is only 33 in. high.

You can say that again

The blurb says “You will surprise your friends when they suddenly light up in your flowerbed”. There is no cause for concern: it is not your friends who will light up in your flowerbed but the little solar power animal lights themselves.

Buy a Five Pack of Solar Animal Lights from RecycleWorks for £37.10