Archive for July, 2010


Sunspaces – Solar Heat and a Place to Grow Plants

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A simple passive-solar heating system that provides pleasant living space

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Way back in the late 1970s, I worked for the New Mexico Solar Energy Association in Santa Fe. I ran the Workshop Program, leading a crew of three or four like-mined idealists teaching mostly low-income New Mexicans about solar energy through hands-on construction workshops. We primarily built attached solar greenhouses, or sunspaces — structures that provide not only passive solar heat to the adjoining house, but also a place to grow seedlings or house plants.

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Go Green Cleaning Is Doing a Big Favor to the Environment and the People Living Therein

The need for a green cleaning is so much necessary nowadays. Everyone is fully aware of the hazards that the environment is facing. Of the potential hazards that are working, chemicals are one of the important causative factors. Unhygienic cleaning practices, use of chemical, excess water and dusting techniques are becoming a bane for the society.

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