Birds can be nice, otherwise why would people keep them as pets or keep birdbaths in their gardens? However, birds can also be pests specially when they eat seeds and plants and poop all over the place. Many birds also spread diseases.

So if you have a garden, a patio, a swimming area, decks, boats, gazebos, fish ponds, a boat or car cover, this bird repeller can help keep the birds at bay. It is environmentally friendly, being solar powered – no batteries needed. It can be placed at any angle. The solar panel works even in low light conditions.

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If you have an automatic sprinkler system in your garden you can save both power and water by installing this rain sensor. The Freeze/Rain Sensor is eco-friendly and will shut off automatic sprinklers when it is raining so that you do not waste water.

It is wireless so it is easy to install and you can preset it to trigger at a specific rainfall condition. This wireless freeze/rain sensor works on solar power, so you do not waste any electricity or have to use batteries, which adds to its green credentials.

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How many times does it happen that you plant seeds in an effort to grow plants, flowers, vegetables or fruit and, despite your best efforts, they just don’t grow and you don’t even know why. Now there is an answer to your problem – EasyBloom. It is eco-friendly because it tells you exactly what to grow so you don’t waste time, effort and money on your garden.

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Not everybody has a green thumb and not everybody has the time to spend doing all the work gardening entails, getting the soil ready, sowing seeds and bulbs, composting, putting fertilizer and pesticides, watering, weeding, raking… you get the idea. However, if you have a lawn in the front of your house it always looks nice if there are colorful flowers growing amid lush green grass. And it’s a sight for sore eyes too.

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If you have a garden, you must have encountered garden pests some time or the other and perhaps explored different options to get rid of them. This one is an eco-friendly gadget and works under the ground, keeping away moles, voles, gophers and other pests that can play havoc with your garden and put all your hard work to waste. The gadget is known as the Solar Mole and Gopher Chaser

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A great many different types of plastics go into housing your computer and other peripherals. Like it or not, if you need to use a computer, no matter how environmentally friendly you want to be, you have to tolerate this.

Micro Innovations along with DBL Distributing LLC are bringing more eco-friendly products into the US market to appeal to the consumer who wants to go green. Its range of EcoSmart products are made of solid bamboo which also looks sleek and stylish. As bamboo is a rapidly renewable resource – it grows within 3-5 years – it makes sense to use bamboo instead of toxic plastics or even wood.

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If you have a garden, there is every possibility that you use one or the other pesticide to get rid of pests and bugs in your garden which may cause disease in your plants or even kill them. Pesticides, however, poison the atmosphere as well and they can go into your plants. You also get exposed to pesticides and if you grow vegetables and fruits you may even be ingesting the pesticides, all of which are harmful to humans.

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You can light up the perimeter of your garden, the walkway, and the sides of your patio with solar powered bricks. For the environmentally conscious consumer, these bricks provide light which looks nice and illuminating and costs nothing in terms of power and energy.

Solar powered bricks get their power from the sunlight. In the night they light up automatically. They work on internal NI-MH batteries which store power during 8 hours of sunlight and then give out light during 8 hours in the night.

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This environmentally friendly, futuristic gadget is actually a robotic lawn mower which does its work while you relax. You just have to set the time and day for it to work and it will automatically leave its docking station and mow your lawn.

It features a battery powered three blade cutting system with a triple chamber mulching system. Additionally it works twice as fast a normal lawn mower and is more efficient, cutting the grass really low and smooth.

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If you have a large enough garden, you can surely do with a scarecrow because predatory birds are the bete-noire of gardens. You don’t want all the hard work you do in the garden to go to waste, do you? Birds will eat seeds, young plants or shoots or even fully grown plants. This scarecrow not only gives your garden a quaint, old-worldly feel, but also serves a purpose.

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