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Enjoying stored solar energy

January 6, 2009 – 11:05 am

I’ve been heating my home primarily with my freestanding Vermont Castings Dutchwest woodstove since December 1996. This high-efficiency, clean-burning, catalytic stove is able to heat our two-story, 1910-vintage home very nicely, although my wife and kids occasionally(!) complain about the temperature in the 2nd-floor bedrooms. I bow to their complaints to the extent that we use [...]

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Cohousing in the news

December 17, 2008 – 5:31 pm

I received a Happy Holidays e-card yesterday from CoHousing Partners (the cohousing development firm headed by Katie McCamant, who I brought to Northfield in November for a couple of cohousing educational events, along with her husband, architect Chuck Durrett of McCamant & Durrett Architects). The card included some cohousing news, including a link to a [...]

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Jacobsens reap a windy harvest

December 17, 2008 – 11:45 am

I miss seeing Rollie Jacobsen’s smiling face when I shop at Just Food (no offense to all the other smiling faces I still enjoy seeing!). The long-time pillar of the local retail community’s stint at Just Food was preceded by many years of service at Jacobsen’s Family Store, of which he was a third-generation owner [...]

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Gliding through the Arb

December 12, 2008 – 8:20 am

I love visiting Carleton’s Arb in any season, but have a particular fondness for the snowy months when I can ski to my heart’s content on the Arb’s many miles of beautiful, gently rolling trails. I’ve been cross country skiing in the Arb since about 1969, and never tire of the ever-changing mosaic of fields, [...]

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Making wise home energy investments

November 25, 2008 – 1:06 pm

For most people, their house is not only their home, it’s also their single largest investment. Investments in our homes have been taking a battering with falling home values the past couple of years, but there is another way to make a nearly sure-fire investment in your home: investing in home energy efficiency. Natural gas [...]

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