Searching for an Eco-Friendly Vacuum Cleaner

Just the other day I wrote an article on the handy-dandy, electriticity-free way to clean your carpets: the carpet sweeper. Carpet sweepers are fine for light cleaning or touch-ups between proper vacuumings, but is there a way to “vacuum green”? Carpet vacuums have existed in one strance form or another since the late 1800’s, but it wasn’t until James Murray Spangler combined a fan, a box and a pillowcase in 1907 that we had a device resembling a modern vacuum cleaner. Even the fancie
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