One of the biggest environmental problems we face is packaging waste. For most of the public every shopping trip they take results in lots and lots of packaging...cereal boxes, cans or bags of nuts, bags of rice and beans, plastic milk jugs, etc. There are quite a few steps we can take to reduce our contribution to the packaging waste stream and one huge one is to simply eat real, local foods and not the processed foods that are more typically found in boxes and plastic bags. Yet there … [Read more...]
Staying Warm in Winter with Pellet Stoves
When I moved to Ohio some eight years I was not used to cold winter weather. I was raised in Phoenix, Arizona so I was a delicate desert flower. But upon settling into our first home here in Ohio we had a rude awakening to what winter is really like. We were living in a super drafty old place that had a very large addition build onto the original house. The main section warmed up just fine, even if the price of heating oil for the furnace was enough to send me into cardiac arrest each month. The … [Read more...]
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