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Posts tagged “energy use”

14 Ways To Keep Warm Without Turning the Heat On or Up

Okay granted, unlike most of my fellow Re-Nest bloggers, I live in Los Angeles. Lately, however, we've had quite the spell of cold and rainy weather, and the same thick plaster walls that keep my h...

Do Crock Pots Use Less Energy? For Real?

We've been wondering if the Crock Pot, the use of which makes us feel so thrifty and virtuous, is actually deserving of our admiration and positive emotions. After some intensive searching, here's wh...

Blogging the New York Times: Monitoring Tools Save Energy

If you had a simple way to balance the tradeoff between saving energy and being comfortable, do you think you'd use it? That's what researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory wanted to ...