In the ongoing effort to reduce his environmental impact on the planet, The Bear this week has installed a “TED-5002″ on the home electrical panel. Other weblogs have described the T.E.D. installation process, so I won’t go into that here. Instead I’ll share some details about our particular grid-tied solar electric production system, and how [...]
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The Pumpkinvine
It’s national Bike-To-Work Week, and The Bear wonders what a work-at-home webmaster does to participate. Well for the past four days I’ve hopped on Sky, my trusty Trek of 29 years, and I’ve ridden to the end of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail and back — a round trip of about 13 miles. Will [...]
Oil Rig Burning
It is the worst man-made ecological disaster since the Exxon Valdez Alaskan oil spill of 1989. When British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform ignited, burned, and sank, it left in its fiery wake an uncontrollable gusher of crude oil beneath the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Even now — three [...]
Treesh and I went shopping for a freezer last summer. You know, one of those chest freezers you keep in the basement to store everything that won’t fit in the refrigerator freezer in the kitchen. We did a lot of canning and freezing from the garden last year and needed a place to put it [...]
