By Kathleen Puffer Winter is coming. It is time for the annual hibernation to begin. Squirrels bury the last few nuts to last through the winter. Bears head off for their long naps, gardeners curl up in their blankets, waiting … Continue reading →
By David Fried “Apple scruffs, apple scruffs, how I love you, how I love you” – George Harrison It’s been raining apples since August. I can barely walk across the hill. Dark red, pink blush, yellow and crimson striped, green … Continue reading →
By Kay Cafasso If you are looking back on the last growing season discouraged that you still do not have the garden you dream of, don’t despair! This is the perfect time to plan your garden. This is a busy … Continue reading →
High-performance storm windows are a lower-cost alternative to window replacement and can save significant amounts of energy. WINDOWS ARE A MAJOR SOURCE OF heating losses and gains in the building and can significantly drive up energy bills. Window replacement is … Continue reading →
When looked at as a group, studies of attached garages offer helpful information about when and how carbon dioxide and fumes pollute the home. Among the more interesting observations to come out of 20 years of research on attached garages … Continue reading →
By Allan Bullis The blower door is the most important tool an energy auditor has to diagnose a building’ performance. Before explaining the blower door and how it is used to improve a building’s performance, let’s look at some building-science … Continue reading →
By Michael Goetinck I’m often asked, “When is the best time to replace the roof?” Roof replacement is not very fun to contemplate and people want to put it off as long as possible, so I somewhat jokingly reply that … Continue reading →
Notes on the VECAN* Conference by Alan Betts (http://alanbetts.com). The conference was held in Fairlee Vermont on December 5. Richard Heinberg from the Post-Carbon Institute gave an excellent talk on the challenges we face to stabilize carbon dioxide in the … Continue reading →
A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath. By Ted Koppel Crown Publishers, New York, 262 pages Book Review by Tammy Reiss Virtually all our civilian infrastructure – including telecommunications, water, sanitation, transportation, healthcare, oil and natural gas pipelines – … Continue reading →
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice By Wen Stephenson, Beacon Press (October 6, 2015), 256 pages, $24.95 hard cover An urgent, on-the-ground look at some of the “new American radicals” who have laid everything on the line to … Continue reading →