It's summer. Yay! And daytime temperatures are now exceeding 85 degrees. 🙁 So now we start the summer, energy-efficiency, window dance to begin at the Healthy Home Habitats house. Yes, the solar panels & heat pumps here provided 90% of our heat this past winter...
Oh boy, no rain again today... “Wait Mommy, I’ll turn on the rain for you!” my young daughter said as she ran to one of the rain-barrels along the dripline of our roof years ago. “In 2012, the top 1 percent of rainfall events in the northeast carried 71 percent more...
Dear Healthy Home Habitats, Our water bills are rising and droughts are back again this year. I think I’m finally through with the “best lawn in the neighborhood" competition. But I’m not ready for the cost, expense and effort of creating a meadow. I need my yard to...
No, you are not imagining it. Not only are the droughts back again this spring in the Northeast US. But they are projected to continue through the growing season. Drought and erratic, intense rainstorms are predicted. Communities are implementing outdoor, landscape...
Dear Healthy Home Habitats, I love my affectionate cat and I like to feed wild birds in the backyard too. But for the third time this week I’ve come home to beautiful, little feathers strewn throughout the house 🙁 I know I should keep Clara the Cat inside but she...
HEALING THE EARTH FROM HOME Many years ago and much to my chagrin, my Mother was horrified to find cloth rags in our kitchen instead of paper towels when she came to visit my newborn daughter. She stated that we were bound to poison our child! Well, my teenage...