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USGBC, the EPA, DOE & VP Biden – what a week:

If you have been following the news, the blogs & the tweets this week, I am sure you have seen all the announcements coming out, talking about this Energy Efficiency nirvana. Unfortunately, for the nirvana crowd, it seems almost everyone pulled a copy & paste & did not really dig into it these programs. Before […]

Organizing the Refrigerator & Freezer

In our last article, we started discussing one of the items in the Holiday Planning Checklist about “inventorying your pantry, refrigerator and freezer and stocking up on non-perishables.” In our last article, we mainly focused on your pantry and organizing it. As promised, in this article we are going to cover the refrigerator & freezer. Organizing & […]

Safety Sunday: Respirator Care & Maintenance

In this article, we are not going to delve into which filter is for what, when you should use one or when a dust mask may be sufficient (we will get to that in a future article) , but one of the most overlooked facets of them – how to properly care for & store […]

Cleaning out & organizing the pantry

Wow, is it really November already, with only 20 days to go till Thanksgiving? Ouch, time to break out the Holiday Planning Checklist & get going. In that checklist, we included a point about “inventorying your pantry, refrigerator and freezer and stocking up on non-perishables”, which leads to a few interesting questions. Namely, how long […]

Guest Post: Working in Harmony

This week I was honored to do a guest post on Ana Maria Manzo’s wonderful blog entitled “the place of dreams.” Ana Marie Manzo is an architect that lives & works in Venezuela whom I actually met through Twitter. Per her request, the article was based on one simple word “Harmony.” Coincidently, I am actually […]

Let’s Blog Off: Laughter really is the best medicine

Ahhh, another Tuesday, and it looks like another great Let’s Blog Off topic this week. This week’s topic revolves around the question on “What makes you laugh?” As per our custom, we will be listing all those participating at the end of this article, and I highly encourage you to check them out; as I […]

Safety Sunday: Halloween – 10 tips for Trick & Treaters

Would it really be Halloween without all those ghosts, goblins, and witches running around going Trick or Treat? From our great friend Nick @ Cupboards Kitchen & Bath 19 Interesting Facts on Halloween we can see that it has been going on since the 1800’s in America. As stated – “the end of the Harvest […]

RESNET’s New Standard for Energy Auditor’s

As I mentioned in last week’s article on Ethics, RESNET has released a new standard for Energy Auditors that fortuitously helps me out on an article I have been working on for a while – namely, what is an Energy Audit, an Assessment, a Rating, & are they all the same? While some may consider […]

Safety Sunday: Halloween – having a shockingly good time

Ahhh Halloween, with all the trick and treaters, haunted houses, costume parties and balls; easily turns a regular night into and oh so fun night. Quite a few of my friends actually spend more time planning for Halloween & decorating than they do for Christmas & it appears that this idea has been spreading. Instead […]

Ethics – RESNET, NARI & BPI

Earlier this week, RESNET sent an email out informing everyone about a new code of ethics they implemented on October 8th. Besides the obvious oopsie at the bottom, I didn’t really think twice about it and I figured a simple & quick article like the one I did on the NARI Code of Ethics, would […]