Earth Friendly Wind-Up Gadgets

If you’ve read much about green living, you’ve probably heard about the environmental dangers of batteries.  Household batteries contain mercury, zinc, cadmium, maganese, and other components which are harmful to both your health, and our earth.  Over time batteries left in landfills break down, and leech these substances into our water and soil.

If you want to reduce your household’s need for batteries, you should check out some of the wind-up gadgets now on the market.

Universal Remote Controls:  This universal remote control will run for 7 days on just 30 revolutions of winding. It will also control up to 6 of your home electronics.  The wind-up remote control is available at Nigel’s Eco Store. 

Radios:  The Emerson radio above requires no batteries, and can be powered for up to an hour from just a minute of winding the built-in crank.  The wind up radio also comes with earbuds, and you can listen to both AM & FM stations or weatherband.   I think this would be handy to have around the house, or to use as camping gear.

Alarm Clocks:  Oldies, but goodies, wind-up alarm clocks have been around forever.  Why not replace that energy gulping hunk of plastic with a real classic like this Bulova clock.  The Bellman Nickel alarm clock is available at the Alarm Clocks Online.

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