When we moved in, we chose not to purchase a dryer. in our energy star research, it turned out that dryers, no matter how old they were, were about equally efficient - it was more a matter of keeping them lint free than the newness. So we went all winter hangdrying our clothes [...]
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
When Laura [...]