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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

This season of makeshift and grumbling, however, may turn out to have been the period in which the U.S., without really noticing that its attitudes have shifted, passed a balance point toward the acceptance of solar energy. A principle of architecture's postmodern school is that architecture is not an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Even if the landlord abides by the law, 55° or 68° is not exactly the smothering warmth Americans, unlike Europeans, have come to expect. In apartment buildings with fireplaces, urbanites are joining the national craze for wood power. When Chicago's park district had some trees chopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hotlines and Comforters | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

For the majority of the nation's apartment dwellers who do not have fireplaces, there are a few alternatives. Space heaters are selling well, though fire departments warn of dangers from liquid fuel and certain electric models. Safer and cheaper by far are the 79? sheets of transparent plastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Hotlines and Comforters | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Electricity monitors. Even if a homeowner has reduced electricity consumption to a minimum, there is always an other watt or two that can be saved. That is the theory behind electricity monitors, which use microchip technology and digital display to calculate the dollars-and-cents value of the electricity being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Gizmos To Save Energy | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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