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The mighty sewing machine
I’ve never had a desire or ability to sew, but I’m starting to feel a bit left out. If you can sew, your ability to reuse fabrics is limited only by your creativity. I’m so bad when it comes to getting stains on my clothes. It’s usually food on shirts. It’s uncool to donate stained…
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Clothes dryer efficiency project
If I lived in the country I would have a clothesline, but I live in an apartment, so I have a clothes dryer. I can’t have clothes hanging everywhere in my little apartment ; ) I hang my head in shame and say that for the last six months or so I’ve noticed that my…
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Green gets sporty with a decathlon
In case you haven’t heard about the Solar Decathlon, trot on over to www.solardecathlon.org to learn about this amazing competition going on October 12-20 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Twenty college and university teams have worked for years to showcase their attractive, solar-powered homes for this event.
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Compact bulbs for dimmable lights
A couple of readers commented on how compact fluorescents don’t work so well in dimmable light fixtures. It turns out that you do need to buy a special bulb for dimmable fixtures. If you’ve used these special bulbs, please leave a comment. I’d like to know if they flicker or hum. It appears that the…
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Just one bulb
I waited in the car while my husband went to get a pipe for our dryer efficiency project (much more on that later) and he brought me back an ENERGY STAR fluorescent light bulb. He said I could write about it in my blog! It was a nice surprise. I decided I would gradually replace…
Light Green Stairs 