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July 26, 2009
I just wrote about not being able to work the AC at the last event saying it was good practice for the future.
I picked up that quite a few people were uncomfortable with the room being warm but if only they knew it has hip and trendy now! With this latest article in the NY Times, [...]
September 21, 2008
by Anais in Cooking & Baking, Cooling, Energy, Homestead, Kitchen, Posts by Anais, Solar Oven, Solar Power
FACT: every day the sun shines, an equivalent of 4.25 TRILLION barrels of oil falls on the US alone in the form of solar energy
I have a confession, I been addicted to solar ovens ever since we built our first cardboard, aluminum oven back in the days — 1990 to be exact. Yep, we were [...]
July 25, 2006
by Anais in Beneficials & Pests, Cooling, DIY Projects, Energy, Garden, Greywater Reclamation, Health & Beauty, Homestead, Kitchen, Laundry, News, Pickling & Preservation, Posts by Anais, Powering Down, Simple Living, Water
Nitty gritty
Another sweaty, dirty, dusty, filthy day for the guys. This awful humidity makes an already dirty job even worse – the dust just sticks to the skin and becomes muddy. We are all certainly thankful for the sun shower – we are certainly using it a lot these days. As for me, last [...]
July 4, 2006
by Anais in Ammendments & Fertilizers, Barnyard, Beneficials & Pests, Cooling, Ducks, Energy, Garden, Homestead, Posts by Anais, Powering Down, Weather
It’s another hot and humid day – yuck! Let me see now, we are going on over a week of this hot and sticky weather.
Sorry for the lack of postings lately, things have been busy as you may have guessed and besides it’s just to darn hot to sit in front of a computer.
In the [...]
October 11, 2005
by Anais in Barnyard, Community, Cooling, Ducks, Earthen (Cob) Oven, Energy, Garden, Garden, Homebrew Biodiesel, Homestead, Kitchen, Methods & Principles, Outreach, Posts by Anais, Transportation, Weather
Fo-ti vine screen
Passive Cooling
To keep our house cool during the brutal summer months, the guys erected two passive cooling, living-trellises a few years back which runs along the hottest side of the house. A Chinese herbal vine grows on one and a passion fruit on the other. We’ve noticed a considerable difference these living sunscreens [...]
