This is TERRIFIC article about how to dry your clothes, why to dry your clothes, even how to wash your clothes more efficiently without buying the very cool top-loading washing machine that we did! Don’t Be an Energy Glutton: How to Wash and Dry Your Clothes Efficiently : Chelsea Green.
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We have just cut down several trees – a couple of young redwoods, two cedars, and two mulberries. While it was hard to cut them down, we are excited about having clear solar access for our garden, our house, and eventually solar panels. They were all blocking the morning light, were in the way of [...] I first heard the word “permaculture” in 1990 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during my junior year in college. The co-originator of the concept, Bill Mollison, was coming to Santa Fe to be a part of an Earth Day festivity, and there were flyers around town with compelling line drawings that caught my attention. The [...] This is your Gumview handyman again with his know it all tips. How will you know them unless someone tells you, you have to do it by trial and error. You certainly wont find out if you hire someone to do it for you. Today’s tip is how do I change the way the refrigerator [...] Note from Genevieve – this is a terrific article about Local Water Harvesting, a project we are eager to do and already thinking about. There is also a great description of permaculture in this article. Thanks Deborah Rich! Runoff as resource instead of problem Deborah K. Rich, Special to The Chronicle Saturday, December 6, 2008 [...] Wallpaper removal is one of the many small opportunities that new homeowners have. The wallpaper these new homeowners had varied from a Rose Wallpaper that someone took a lot of care to paste on a wall, as trim, even on the light switches, to another wall, that had 3 different layers of wallpaper, and then [...] Since we bought our house, we have had to make several major appliance purchases. We have to admit, it feels rather grown up – we have always rented places already furnished with these appliances. Below details our decision-making process for buying a new refrigerator, and a review “three months after” of our purchase. When thinking [...] Today I would like to introduce my father, the Happy Handyman, who will be contributing posts over the next several weeks. He’s married to the Joyful Retiree, who also happens to be my mother, and they are both retired and staying with us here at Greening Gumview. For more on their current life check out [...] We need air filtration! Sanding the floor, sanding drywall, sweeping everything, dust is the remodelers constant companion. Old houses have an infinite supply of dust, it’s like flaking off skin or something. We’re waking up with stuffy noses most mornings, our sinuses and lungs are acting as the primary filtration units in the house right [...] While neither Christopher nor I is a huge fan of ornamentals (of which we have quite a few), we have committed to not making huge changes in our first year. That being said, we have already given our non-fruiting mulberry a major trim (an un-researched act, and a bit spontaneous, but necessary for the health [...] |
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