Easy steps to saving energy Changing laundry habits, unplugging electronics can add up (Reading Eagle)

With higher heating and electricity costs on the horizon, and the economy teetering on a free fall this week, it seems prudent to muster a few energy-saving efforts around the house.

The Big Green Barn: One Man’s Personal Journey to Salvage a 1910 Barn (Part 4)

The following is the final installment of a four-part series of one man’s personal journey to salvage a 1910 barn in Southwest Michigan while keeping it as green as possible. Catch up on last past installments here. A very important part of any home building project, in my opinion, is hot water for personal use. Think about how much you use on a daily basis: showers, laundry, dishwashing, cleaning, etc. Now think about how that water is stored. Usually in one of those big cumbersome tanks in

Laundry Limbo

We made it through the other side of laundry limbo. It all started last Thursday morning. I started a load of the girls’s clothes. When the wash cycle ended, so did the machine; it wouldn’t drain. I told my husband who said he’d look at it after he got home from work that evening. In the meantime, I removed the clothes and put them in the bath tub to rinse. Once they were rinsed, they were transferred to the dryer. Hubby came home and emptied the water out of the washer tub then pulled t

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