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Good Gardening
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John Fischer has some steps you can take to keep your house cooler, without using more energy, during our next heat wave.
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If you want a clean car, there are steps you can take to keep the runoff out of rivers.
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Being an organic gardener doesn't mean you don't fight pests with spray bottles- it just means what you put in the bottle is not a synthetic chemical.
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With picnic and festival season upon us, consider reducing your waste by packing your own reusable dishes, silver, and cups - napkins too.
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Generally speaking, the movers of the bug world - praying mantis, lady beetles, spiders and dragonflies are good for your garden, and should not be harmed.
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When Springfield Creamery moved to a bigger location 35 years ago, they put up new buildings, and planted 200 trees around the outside of the land. That helped sequester climate-warming CO2.
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If you want the look and feel of the tropics in your garden this summer, you don't need a greenhouse - you just need the right plants.
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Many of us are making big efforts to reduce our personal carbon footprint - maybe better called our climate footprint. But most of us have two footprints, and the bigger one may land at work.
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Herbicides kill herbs - aka plants, and while chemical herbicides like RoundUp get all the publicity, organic herbicides can be just as effective without the environmental consequences.
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John Fischer says, like most zealots, he can be so focused on the solution to a problem that he' may have forgotten to listen to the whole story.