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A New Model for Wind Power |
From Mother Earth News magazine
After a tornado ripped through Greensburg, Kan., in 2007, the local John Deere dealership rebuilt with wind energy as its power source. The family-owned company faced several barriers while trying to get its wind turbines up and running, but it's now reaping wind's benefits. |
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Off-the-Grid Cordwood Construction Community Center |
From Mother Earth News magazine: Cordwood construction utilizes a low-cost, renewable, local building material — chunks of firewood — as the infill in timber frame construction. See how the Friends of the Merrill School Forest and the Evjue Foundation used cordwood construction to build an education center on the school’s 764-acre woodland site in Merrill, Wis. |
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Your Guide to Fresh Herbs Year-Round |
From The Herb Companion magazine: If you’re staring out your window, longing for fresh herbs during cold, wet winter days — take heart. Select a few (or many) of the plants discussed in this article and follow the accompanying tips to grow a selection of culinary delights throughout the year. |
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Austin: Green and Red-Hot |
From Natural Home magazine: Austin, Texas, isn’t just home to great food and music; it’s also a hotbed of green living. |
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Vertical Gardening Techniques for Maximum Returns |
From Mother Earth News magazine
Whether your garden is large or small, you can make better use of every square inch by using vertical gardening techniques to grow upright crops. Pole beans typically produce twice as many beans as bush varieties, and the right trellis can double cucumber yields. Then there are crops, such as tomatoes, that need some type of support to keep them above damp ground, where diseases have a heyday. All properly supported plants are easier to pick from and monitor for pests, plus you’ll get help from bug-eating birds that use
trellises as hunting perches. |
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