Word: ares
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In a system under stress, however, solutions sometimes create problems. Massachusetts has become the first state in the nation to ban urea formaldehyde foam, the largest selling type of blown insulation. Public Health Commissioner Alfred Frechette says that "we find there is significant correlation between the foam insulation and such...
In the meantime, independent thinkers are busy hatching schemes to beat the system. "A great learning process is going on," says Madison Draftsman Dan Greco, who describes himself as a "lay expert" in conservation. On Block Island, R.I., where the last sizable stands of trees were cut and sent up...
It is easy to dismiss such tiny projects as tinkering?as it is easy to dismiss the wood-stove phenomenon. Crab wastes and the body heat of chickens are not going to save postindustrial America (though Ecologist Barry Com- moner believes that methane, generated from a wide variety of wastes...
There are drawbacks to this unbudgeable stubbornness, of course. Despite the inventiveness that it accompanies, it is at its roots a resistance to change. And the changes that the society has shown itself willing to make so far are small ones. They do not inconvenience in serious ways. Yes to...
In New York, Chicago, Boston and other major cities, he can call for heat on a hotline. While the federal ceiling of 65° applies only to commercial and public buildings, most cities enforce local laws requiring landlords to keep residential buildings at a minimal 68° by day and...