Going Green
High Efficiency Toilet
California now limits every household to 100 gallons of water per day ~ barely enough for the usual household chores, but with zero allowed for watering the yard, washing the car, or topping off the […]
Going Green
Going Green
Solar Water Heating
In the past, solar energy has been prohibitively expensive, with payback over 20 years for most applications. Photovoltaics are still quite expensive, while parabolic collectors and other concentrating means are not much better. The machinery […]
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Window Diffuser
Got a window with no view but in a room that benefits from daylighting? You try to dress up the window with blinds or curtains, but it still hurts the senses like a sore thumb. […]
Going Green
Fill Your House With Plants
Modern construction standards build a very “tight” house. They literally wrap the entire structure with a kind of shrink wrap to keep airflow through the walls to an absolute minimum. The problem is that people […]
Going Green
Read a Book
We used to call wasting exorbitant amounts of energy, “conspicuous consumption.” Now they sometimes call it “collecting experiences.” Either way, it’s traveling to faraway places, doing exotic activities, eco-tourism; weddings in the Caribbean, spending a week […]