I spent the weekend house sitting my inlaws place in a very affluent neighborhood of Neenah, WI. I was walking the dogs and saw a house for sale that had a sort of mission style that caught my eye. As...
I just came back from Portland, OR. Portland has gotten a lot of good press for their city-wide composting program and strict zoning regulations that have curtailed urban sprawl. The first thing I noticed when I arrived was the well...
No, not the Beck album. Here I refer to devices that draw power even when not in active use. Over the past few years, I have read a number of studies that indicate between 5% and 10% of household energy...
This fall, I am on leave from Lawrence and have been living in Beijing. Professor Jeff Clark asked me to contribute a few entries to the blog about some of the environmentally-related experiences and observations that I have had in...
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