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Oh, and you coffee will get colder quicker in a paper cup, about the same rate in foam cup, and you can't reheat an aluminum cup!

Already freezing at night here, you may want to mention zone limitations when you post planting advice.

Great house with good, simple, easy to apply green choices. Beautiful & functional.

Um, they painted everything white, waxed the floor, and hung a light...hardly shocking. I'd say they spent more time ripping out that kitchen linoleum...I would have recommended a full refinish on the floors, painting the radiator, and more appropriately scaled furniture. A big improvement nonetheless.

Ha! I recently quit smoking, & used to get really irritated by people that would condescendingly lecture me on my smoking & then turn around & climb into their giant SUV with the air conditioning cranked, chock full of lawn & garden poisons, toxic cleaners, and single serve processed foods. Glass houses.

One of the reasons I hate statistics is they can say whatever you like. A $40 LED will save you $160 in e costs over the course of 25 to 32 years (provided you don't break it)? If you put $40 in a interest bearing account, you'd get a better deal, even minus the $1 every 3 years for a new standard bulb. The cost has to come down for LED to be $ smart.

CFL? A little mercury? Still too much, just ask the fishing industry.

New factories & jobs for the new bulbs? Sure, but the old factories that aren't being converted are being closed, & once the majority of bulbs are the longer lasting types...we'll need fewer than before, so cumulative job loss. We still need a better option.

Please relax everyone. The world gets more crowded every day. Don't like it? Don't breed. I know that people take flowers when they shouldn't, but really, in the greater scheme of things, how horrible is this? I have caught people plucking my flowers & herbs in several states. If they linger long enough for me to approach them, I offer more, cuttings, a jar, & how to grow tips. There was a time when there was open land, this time is no more. Share, it won't hurt your feelings if you give them permission.

Sorry, but my mother was a costumer at a state college where budget was king, and 'folding, draping, and stitching fabric into shape' doesn't magically make that fabric useful or re-purpose fabric, it just makes a bulkier garment/uses all of the fabric to make the same garment. Using scraps for a rag rug or patchwork quilt or garment *does* give that excess fabric a use. Using clever techniques to make yourself feel better about not being 'green' is not the same thing as *being* green!