Apartment Therapy Re-Nest takes you through the installation of a tankless water heater asking if it was worth the extra work.
With the tankless’ “nearly 100% efficiency rating (whereas gas fueled tanks are closer to .65)” I think it is absolutely worth the effort.
Part of Green is not consuming when you don’t need to. I’m not upgrading today, but when our water heater goes – this is going to be top of my research-in-detail list! The price certainly seems reasonable.
Mark Bittman discusses the impact of eating lots of meat, and why we should tone it down and start cooking more of our own plant-based meals again.
note: a video should appear above. If you don’t see it, try between 8am and 10am when the firewall at work will let video through.
While reading Presentation Zen, I saw this slide by Kumar Designs as part of their “Vegetarian Is The New Prius” presentation.
You might also be interested to know that the NY Times reports “2.2 pounds of beef is responsible for the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the average European car every 155 miles, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days.”
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