Going Green

Starter Solar Panel Setup

You don’t need to spend $15,000 for solar panels on the roof of your house to take advantage of free energy from the sun. You don’t need a house at all, as far as that […]

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The easiest way to save on heating and cooling bills is a programmable thermostat. Automate the daily temperature cycle in your home: in the summer, set the temperature higher during the workday and at night […]

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Heat Tape

Large buildings like hospitals have a central hot-water circulation loop. Hot water circulates in the loop constantly. Every hot water fixture is a short length of pipe away from the central loop so that hot […]

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Eat Less Beef

Back in the mid-’80s when I was between jobs I went up to a small town near Burlington, Vermont to help a friend start up an old dairy farm that hadn’t been used for decades. […]

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Recycle Aluminum Cans

More than 100 BILLION aluminum cans are sold in the U.S. each year. Only half are recycled. Likewise around the world, resulting in 3 BILLION pounds of aluminum cans in landfills around the world. There […]