Going Green

To Juice or Not to Juice

My favorite Telenovelas channel (Spanish-language soaps, very high-quality shows – I watch the original in Spanish but you can stream them in English or with English subtitles) is running an advertisement for a centrifugal juicer. […]

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Solar Panel Efficiency

Everybody assumes that Florida, Arizona, and New Mexico are the ideal location for solar panels. Why not, with all the sunlight they get 24/7/365? Unfortunately, that’s not exactly the case. Saudi Arabia has been struggling […]

Grandma Squirrel

Every once in a while, walking around the neighborhood after lunch, I spot a squirrel splayed out on the road. “Oh, no ~ how could somebody run over a squirrel when the speed limit is […]

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Your Carbon Budget

It must be really hard being a young adult these days, what with all the terrible problems you’ve inherited ~ mostly climate change. An analysis at Carbon Brief indicates that young folks will need to […]

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Fireplace Eco Fan

One of my neighbors has a very cool gizmo: an “Eco Fan” that sits on top of the wood-burning stove. It’s a solid, cast-iron construction that conducts heat from the wood stove into the body […]