Daylight Harvesting: Greening Your Home with Ambient Light
Daylight harvesting—using automated lights and sensors to switch between ambient and artificial lighting—can keep your electric bills down and your mood up.
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Safer Insulation: Which Home Insulation Is Safest for Health and the Environment?
Dear EarthTalk: The cold winter we’re having here in the Northeast has convinced me to finally beef up my home’s insulation, but I’ve heard that spray foam can off-gas noxious chemicals and pollute the indoor environment. Are there safer options? — Rose Donahue, Framingham, MA Making your home more energy efficient is certainly good for the […]