Bathrooms make up a major part of your home’s water bill. When it comes to water conservation, there are the new inventions and then there …
Spring is a great season renovate one room at a time. Painting the walls is another way to give an uplifting look to a room. …
Ew, a bug! How’d that get in here? Perhaps, there’s a hole in your window screen. Window screens are an important part of letting the …
The lawn after winter is like a zombie waiting to come back to it’s normal life form: It’s patchy and discolored, and you know if …
Spring cleaning can be done in eco-friendly fashion at any comfort level from light green to dark green. Light green is a term used to …
The aggravation of finding indoor air leaks makes you feel like you’re plugging up holes in an old boat. As soon as you stuff one …
You don’t have to be the Wicked Witch from “The Wizard of Oz” to know that water can destroy things. If you’ve ever dropped your …
Remember when the phone would ring and you could hear it ring while you were outside shoveling, and you would run inside to answer it, …
After the dawning of the New Year, doing nothing sometimes sounds like the best idea. It’s cold, and the enthusiasm of bringing in the new …
The most popular new year’s resolutions are quitting smoking and losing weight. But quitting anything or losing weight is really hard to do. Picking something …
What makes the best Christmas gift? An iPad, an iPhone, an Xbox? Because they are so costly, Christmas is the most popular time for receiving …
Thanksgiving is just the beginning of food-related celebrations, parties and feasts, including a series of cooking for gifts, and hospitality. There, lingering afterward – like …
If you’ve thought of ways to make an extra dollar from home, then perhaps you’ve thought about solar energy and selling the excess electricity back …
Sometimes I watch “Ghost Hunters,” a reality show that suggest that old houses don’t just make creaky noises because they are old, but because they …
Anything new normally has an invisible trial period. You trust it, that is, you believe it is what it says it is, but you are …
How many trips to the fridge can you take in one day? Maybe not so much if your refrigerator was outdoors. Keeping extra refrigerator storage …
The Shimizu isn’t a new breed of lap dog; it’s a corporation that has designs for lunar power to deliver a cleaner energy resource for …
I wonder how many corn stands you could count on your ride home during the month of August? The power of suggestion will have you …
Want to get in an extra couple of months of swimming? A solar thermal collector is a device used for heating the swimming pool with …
If your goal is to do nothing this summer, it’s nice when you can do it outside. A patio cover is a way to sit …
It’s getting easier to have a home that is completely living and breathing from the foundation up thanks to bacteria. Extremophile bacteria is being added …
Fun people have boats. Willy Wonka had a boat. When people talk about their weekend, all they have to say is “took the boat out,” …
Are you feeling a little too full for last year’s bikini? The answer could be in the water, rather, the plastic bottled water, laden with …
Things are transitioning from spring to summer. Project or punishment, the need to create a comfortable space outdoors is a summertime thing. Patios are popular …
Things I want to do this summer include going to the beach and getting a tan. Things I don’t want to do this summer include …
Only Better runs on the first and third Fridays of the month and is written by Kristin Arrigo . Kristin Arrigo is an environmental writer in Los Angeles and New Hampshire. She graduated from Naropa University in Boulder, Colo., with a bachelor?s degree in ecology. She has contributed writing to the Sierra Club and Buildinggreentv.com. Arrigo grew up in a passive solar home in southern New Hampshire. Contact Kristen by e-mail at karrigo@nashuatelegraph.com.