Word: willful
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Yet there are indications in this cold season that Americans are beginning to believe that conservation offers the only way to fight back. Newly built homes everywhere are generally more energy efficient than the houses of a decade ago. Some public utilities across the country are offering (along with bill...
In Alaska, where thinking hard to stay warm can be a requirement for survival, 258 residents?one out of every 2,000 souls, a rate higher than anywhere else in the U.S.?submitted ideas to a Department of Energy small grants program. Elizabeth Hart of Galena won $13,800...
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...
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...
Will worker productivity plummet along with the mercury in frosty offices? Possibly, says Dr. Ralph Goldman, a U.S. Army environmental medicine expert who documents human responses under a variety of climatic conditions. Goldman suggests that manual dexterity can suffer in temperatures of less than 68°. Does this mean that...