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Thursday
May202010

Dig this green dollhouse

It's never too early to start teaching your child about sustainability. They too will be a homeowner one day, and chances are that technology will be light years ahead of what it is now. Providing them with basic knowledge of smart living practices will only give them the edge!

Help your child combine his or her imagination with the reality of living sustainably. Start them off with eco-friendly inspired toys like these green dollhouses. Not far off from being LEED certified, they offer features like solar panels, LED lights, wind power generators, and skylights.

We love Thames and Kosmos' Power House. It's educational and eco-friendly.
Learn about alternative energy through the green projects included in this kit. Build a solar cell array, a passive solar collector, a solar oven, an air conditioner, a refrigerator, a hydrometer, a lemon battery, and a wind power generator. There's also a full kit available with even more green experiments like, desalinate water, make a potted plant feed a candle, harvest sunflower energy, build an oil press, extract electric current from sunlight and metals in acid, build a light telephone, build an electric car.

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