Best Holiday Light Since Rudolph’s Nose
LED Christmas lights use just 10 percent of the energy of incandescents, last for some 50,000 hours, and are cooler and safer than older incandescent lights. So why are you hanging onto those old Christmas lights?
Perhaps the best news of all is this: HolidayLEDs.com will take your old lights, recycle them, and give you a coupon for 15 percent off any LED lights they sell. So
Political Climate Not Changing
There are two reasons I chose a turtle to illustrate this blog post. The first is unhappy news about the fate of Costa Rica’s leatherback turtles: As sea temperatures rise due to global climate change, the reefs on which the turtles feed are disappearing. When this threat is added to coastal development, egg poaching and drift net fishing, it becomes apparent that this endangered animal may
Cold Water Dishwashing? An Experiment in Green Living
When you live in an old, drafty dump of a house — like, for example, mine — you learn to innovate in order to keep your energy bills from looking like the Pentagon budget.
So last night I ran my dishwasher using only cold water. Blasphemous, I know, but Ed Hagerty (one of my readers) inspired me to try something different. Like me, Ed lives in
