Eco-Friendly Camping Gizmos

A great way to minimize your air miles is to enjoy your countryside and go camping. Camping is hugely popular, and it's a great way to appreciate nature, have a fun holiday and spend time with your family. To ensure your camping trip is as green as possible, here are a collection of eco-friendly camping gadgets to peruse.

If you're away from home, you still need to stay clean, so how about an eco-friendly solar shower? You fill up the bag with up cold water, and then the sun's rays will heat up the water thanks to the black colouring of the bag. No fossil fuels or electricity is needed! The bag itself is also eco-friendly, because it contains no harmful chemicals.

When walking at night, it's pretty annoying to try and hold a flashlight as well as read a map. Even if you're not walking and you're just reading in your tend, holding a book and a torch at the same time is pretty hard work. Thankfully, the 2C Solar-Powered Baseball Cap allows you to have hands-free light, but without the need for batteries. You just leave the cap in the sun during the day to charge up. Although the cap looks gimmicky, I've got one myself and it works a treat!

If you like to listen to the radio, you can do a little off-grid listening with the Hand Powered 2-way and AM/FM/NOAA Radio.  The radio can actually be used for 2-way communication, which is perfect if your kids are prone to getting lost. No need to worry about batteries because you can get a lot of talk time for just a few minutes cranking of the handle. When you just want to listen to music rather than lost family members, just flick over to the FM radio! You can use batteries if you want, but it is designed to run completely by hand-power too!

This is a guest article by Dan Harrison who writes about eco-friendly gadgets for EnviroGadget.com. You can read about more eco-friendly camping gadgets and other green gizmos at EnviroGadget.com.