Tag: environment
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Learning to Live in the World as It Is
Instead of simply exhorting the rest of the world to get on board with the American way of space cooling, we really should be looking to Europe and other regions for clues to adapting our habits to the world that we are in, instead of remaining stubbornly attached to the artificial world that we created,…
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Drop it Like it’s Not
Yes, the use of some form of A/C is now inevitable. But it can be adopted in ways that are more equitable, sustainable over long periods, and minimize the harmful downsteam effects. But Americans aren’t leading these efforts. And, many Americans’ assumption that they have the answers – when they absolutely do not – is…
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Freedom, Texas style
A blogger that I follow writes about her life as an immigrant and rural homesteader in a small South American country. I love to read her updates about her life on her small farm, with chickens, goats, a huge garden. I live through her vicariously from my apartment in central Berlin, where I must content…
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‘Tis the season …
… for the great tree debate. The Spouse reminded me today that it’s been six years since we decided to go with our pre-lit “fake” tree for Christmas. And Kathryn Kellogg at Going Zero Waste has a post up that reminded me how long we went back and forth about whether it was more environmentally…
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