When you drink water, you know you should be drinking clean and clear water, free from any germs. There are many water borne diseases and even in developed countries, the water may not be absolutely pure. It is all very well to drink bottled water, but bottled water is extremely environmentally unfriendly – there are too many electricity and plastic and transport costs involved in bottled water.

As such if you can install a simple water purifier at home, you can save money and improve or safeguard your health. The Zuvo Water Purator is a simple device which is easy to install.

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If your kitchen stoves run on gas then this little device can help you save money as well as gas. Using less gas is environmentally friendly because it comes from non-renewable fossil fuels. It also means that you can either cook faster or if you need lower heat, you can cook more efficiently.
 
A normal gas stove will burn more gas, use more energy and waste heat. The cooker gas hob, when attached to your usual hob, will help in utilizing the wasted energy thanks to its catalytic alloy disc. What happens is the most gas stoves have openings through which the gas comes out and lights into flames. In the middle there is a blank spot.

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It is all very well to use an electric blender in the kitchen where it has its own designated place and take a few seconds to do the work. However, when you are going outdoor, maybe on vacation, or camping or trekking, this is a handy environmentally friendly gadget which you can keep in your camper or vehicle.

Using it, you can make your smoothies, cocktails, sauces, crushed ice, pancake batters and more. It does not use electricity, you just have to hand crank it to use it. It comes with a clamp so you can clamp it to a table or flat surface to make it easier to crank.

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If you do a fair bit of cooking at one go, it really makes for eco friendliness to use one gadget and one store rather than three or four. This eco cooker is simple to use and you can cook as many as four items at one time. If you are cooking only three things and one of them is to be made in a larger quantity, you can split it between two pans.

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Many chefs and home cooks swear by their sets of knives and say that they can do almost all food preparation work in the kitchen with the knives. However, not everybody can use the knives fast and there are a lot more gadgets out there today to make cooking less of drudgery.

This simple to use kitchen gadget work by hand so does not use any electricity at all. It is user friendly and environmentally friendly as well. You just put the food into the main jar and twist the lid a few times and your food gets chopped. The more you twist it the finer will the chopping be.

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The pressure cooker is one gadget which should find a place in every kitchen. It is simple to use – once you learn how – versatile and can cook almost anything. It can be made of a variety of metals, usually aluminum, hard anodized aluminum and stainless steel. You can get one with a clock like thing on the top which will tell you the pressure or a simpler one without the clock.

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Everybody uses either gas or electricity for cooking. Both are non-renewable sources of energy. While usually gas works out cheaper than electricity, all places do not have the facility of either piped natural gas or liquefied petroleum (both from fossil fuels) gas.

Both these methods of conventional, stove-top cooking use transfer of heat as a cooking mechanism. The heat source transfers the heat to the pan on the stove and this heat then cooks the food. Induction cooking works in the different way. It uses the powerful, high frequency electromagnet which utilizes electromagnetism thanks to the electronics under the ceramic surface of the stove.

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The majority of homes in western countries are stocked with soda, whether plain to have with alcohol or flavored to have as a carbonated oft drink (also called sparking water, aerated water or soda pop). Never mind that most of these drinks whether calorific or the diet version are extremely unhealthy. Never mind that they cost. What matters is that they contribute to pollution as cans and bottles go to landfills (though they are sometimes recycled, a larger portion of them end up littering or in the waste). The factories they are made in also leave a large carbon footprint.

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In our homes and for personal use we tend to use lots of paper whether it is in the form of napkins, toilet paper, wipes or kitchen rolls. All this paper actually ends up in the drain. Paper is biodegradable, but paper also uses trees and we need to recycle and reuse paper and plant more trees to preserve the environment and the ecological balance.

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If you open your fridge or freezer, you will no doubt find plenty of plastic storage boxes and other containers in both. These ubiquitous containers last a life-time and seem to be very user friendly because they can go straight into the microwave for heating or defrosting. They are usually also dishwasher safe. Beware – these containers are dangerous to health.

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