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Residential Solar

Terra Terra,

Can you do an article on residential solar panels?

Thanks!

Matt B.

 
Compact Fluorescents

Dear Terra,

            We have dutifully changed the light bulbs in our home to compact fluorescents where we don’t mind the pasty light quality. Now we find out the things contain mercury! à quoi bon? When were environmentalists going to let us in on this toxic little secret?

            Signed,

 

            Poisoned in Potato Patch,

 

 

 
Composting Stuff?

Dear Terra,

            While helping cook at my greenie-weenie friend’s house I got “the look” after dumping a bunch of vegetable trimmings in the trash. She composts, it seems. She says it’s wasteful to trash organic stuff, but won’t the stuff biodegrade in the dump as well as in her backyard?

            - Signed, Rotten in Red Cliff

 
Where does it go when you flush?

Dear Terra,

            Where does it go when you flush?

- Signed, Down the Rabbit Hole

 

 
Solar Questions

Terra Terra,

Can you do an article on residential solar panels?

Thanks!

Matt B.

 
Local vs. Organic

Terra, 

I hear “local” is the new “organic” when it comes to food for my family. I was just starting to get the hang of organic. Which is it?

  - Aimee

 

 

 
So Many Sustainable Choices

Dear Terra,

I am in danger of freaking out on the grocery bagger next time I get the paper or plastic question. I have become overwhelmed by all the minutiae of sustainable choices I could/should make every day. Can you help narrow the field to 3 or 4 changes each of us could make to make the greatest impact?  

  -Katherin

 

 

 

 

 




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