Inspired by my experience with the Dark Days Eat Local challenge, I am now participating in the far easier One Local Summer — participants agree to cook at least one meal per week entirely out of local ingredients, excluding salt, spices, and cooking oil. For the purposes of this, I’m defining “local” as “from within […]
On May 15th we are going to be stepping away from the life we have here and into a new life. Yes, it will still be fraught with problems, difficulties, and learning experiences, but it will be new. I have decided to take a drastic leap and walk away from my position as a professor. […]
p>Here’s a very low-tech space heater that doesn’t require any power:
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I would think that this design could easily be modified to take advantage of whatever materials you have on hand.
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You know that you are obsessed when nearly every waking thought revolves around one thing. I have been walking around my house for two days with digital thermometers checking the temperature in every room at different times of the day.
I can now report that the living room (where the wood stove is located) fluctuates between […]
Fossil fuels are very good at heating. Unfortunately, as most of us realize, they also have a lot of baggage - greenhouse gases, finite supply, rising costs, pollutants - you know the list.
Making your home heating environmentally friendly can be a challenge. Climate control is an energy-intensive task, and most of the solutions have their […]
Another report to edit? Sign me up! Especially if you happen to be someone I admire greatly and would like to ask after my new son and compliment my mad word skillz. Because I’m a sucker. And i can’t watch any more tv without feeling guilty/losing iq points. I actually […]
We use wood that was used at a sawmill and thrown into a landfill. Is that categorized as heat or waste? Hmmm
