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Photo: shutterstock.com By Jessica Barber Goldblatt I have been thinking a lot this fall about how to get through our long northern winters. How do we bare the weather, seal drafts, ski some and just get through until the spring comes? Then the Norwegian word koselig came to mind: Koselig: More than […] LED lights use 1/50th the electricity of conventional holiday lights and can last for three decades. Credit: Paul Barrows, FlickrCC. By Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Sipping eggnog, listening to carols by the fire and enjoying the beauty of colorfully decorated homes are all warm memories the holiday season conjures. Yet with the […] West Hill House B&B owns 26% of the array totaling just under 30kW peak power, meeting 100% of their electric power needs By Michelle Harrison Vermont is a beautiful state with many areas to explore. As a reader of Green Energy Times, finding locations with a sustainable focus for lodging, a retreat, or […] The sharing economy is reaching those who are still learning how to share. Toy-sharing recycles what your kids no longer want. Photo courtesy of Tyler Gross, Gross Illustration. www.grossillustration.com By AVITAL ANDREWS Two years ago, Ranan Lachman, whose kids were then three and five, was spending thousands on Legos. His children […] Recycling companies are struggling with higher processing costs, due in part to newer, larger recycling bins that don’t require user sorting and thus become increasingly contaminated with garbage. Credit: Dan McKay, FlickrCC By Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Americans generate about 254 million tons of trash and recycle and compost about […] A day of blue sky and sunshine in the middle of December is to be celebrated. And you’ve never celebrated the sun like you do when you cook with a solar oven. Even as we approach the shortest day in the year, there’s still enough sun for this month’s quick-prep, no-fail recipe. […] Cartoon courtesy of Steve Greenberg from www.autossustentavel.com By Larry Plesent Imagine over one trillion non-biodegradable tiny plastic beads going down drains across America each and every day. That’s 3,650,000,000,000,000 beads washed down the drains of America just in the past decade. These microbeads are not biodegradable in water and will remain underground and […] Micro-beads May be Lurking in Your Toothpaste or Other Cosmetic Products Crest MultiCare Whitening toothpaste. Photo by Scott Ehardt. Released into the public domain. By GET Staff Plastic micro-beads can be used as very gentle abrasives, and are soft enough that they wind up being used as abrasives in toothpaste. Many of us […] Credit: Cooper Phyllis, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service By Jennifer Wilhelm NASA scientists report that 2015 is expected to be the hottest year on record. The summer and the months of September and October were the hottest recorded, but what does a global temperature increase of half a degree mean for the food […] |
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