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It’s Time Again to Worry about Heating Costs

By Erik Curren | November 6, 2015

energy savings

If you care about climate change and peak oil, you're always thinking about ways to get off of fossil fuels around the world and to save energy around your house. Home energy tweaking can become an obsession. It has for me. Just take light bulbs for example. It seems that only a few years ago, I swapped out all our old incandescents for compact fluorescents that used less … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: energy conservation, energy efficiency, infographic

16 ways to avoid being a Transition hypocrite

By Sherry Ackerman | October 4, 2013

derelict airplane

Martin Heidegger was obsessed with authenticity. He viewed ontological anxiety as the impetus for authenticity — a way to move us through our conformity. For Heidegger, we were born into a world of quiet conformity. Initially, everything we do, say, think and believe has been done before. The activities we regard as worthy of our time and effort (learning, work, play), the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: energy conservation, Greek mythology, Martin Heidegger, water

3 energy-wasting appliances you can easily live without

By Erik Curren | April 3, 2013

clothes dryer

In today's economy, who doesn't want to save money? And if you care about climate change or peak oil, then all's the more reason to ease off or even cut out major appliances that make us all burn more coal, nukes and fracked gas without providing much benefit in our daily lives. Clothes dryer. Why do you still have one of these? You already know they ruin your clothes, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: clothes dryer, dishwasher, energy conservation, microwave oven

A thousand points of dirt

By Erik Curren | April 15, 2011

350 home and garden challenge logo

So, icecaps are melting, oil is surging and the economy is still in the tank. You've given up on Congress, you've lost faith in Obama and you aren't impressed with what's coming out of your statehouse these days. Whaddya gonna do? You could get ready for the collapse of society. Maybe pick up a few dozen cans of pork-n-beans at Safeway for the basement. Drive some cases … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition, Transition US Tagged With: 350.org, California, community, energy conservation, gardening, Transition US

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