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Save money and stay cozy by winterizing
By Bill Sullivan Green Right Now Summer is little more than a memory, and those outrageous air conditioning bills that came with it are, at least for the moment, a thing of the past. Even if...
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One cancer risk you can easily remove from your life
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now It’s a little like a storyline from those nuclear-age science-fiction movies from the 1950s. An invisible, insidious gas invades your home, poised to undermine your...
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Save nature and free time — install a Pocket Prairie
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now So you’d like to go native this year, reclaim your front yard for nature and escape the servitude of mowing, weeding and fertilizing. (Photo: LBJ Wildflower Center)...
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Catch the rain in Austin and get a rebate
From Green Right Now Reports Austin Water is serious about rain barrels and catchment systems — so much so that the utility’s customers could qualify for hundreds, even thousands in rebates by looking...
View ArticleGreen DIY: Refinish your concrete patio without harming the environment
From Green Right Now Reports Do you have a concrete patio in need of a face lift? Perhaps you have an indoor concrete floor you’d like to stain, creating a cool (to walk on), clean addition to your...
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Hurry! It’s time to build a hoop garden
Green Right Now Reports Don’t get caught without greens this winter. Build a hoop garden while there’s still time. A hoop garden, if you haven’t heard, is a sort of jerry-rigged, poor man’s greenhouse....
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Give a homeowners a way to finance solar and they will jump on it
When people have access to financing for home solar power, they’re apt to jump on board, according to a report just released by the American Clean Skies Foundation. The report documented a surge of...
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Heirloom vegetables and herbs: Why you’ll grow to love them
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Costoluto Genovese Tomatoes. (Photo: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds.) How do gardeners get through the deep, snooze-inducing winter? They salivate over seed catalogs and...
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Funky Chicken Tour coming April 19
GRN Reports: Get ready, set, bahk! Austin’s 6th Annual Funky Chicken Coop Tour is April 19, and its organizers are promising a better show than ever. A sneak peek at one of the chicken coops. Built by...
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Bamboo: Why you need it in your kitchen, and six ways to get it there
GRN Reports Kitchen stuff should be either durable or compostable, if you want to consider the health planet when stocking up. Fortunately, bamboo products are among the few kitchen tools that are both...
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Save water, win a Prius! (maybe)
GRN Reports Water is a necessity. In fact it’s THE king of necessities. Yet freshwater supplies are becoming tenuous in plenty of places where we used to assume abundance. Already 36 states in the US...
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What your drought-tolerant landscape could look like
GRN Reports: In Texas, many reservoirs are several feet below their conservation pool level, meaning tight watering restrictions will continue in most cities in the arid parts of the state. Arizona...
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