Energy Consultants Help Save Homeowners on their Energy Bills
Pro Energy Consultants let us tag along while they performed an energy audit on a home. We now realize how much energy can be lost by having poor insulation in your ceiling, around your fireplace and throughout a number of places in a home. We can all save on our energy bills by fixing our insulation, filling cracks and doing little things around or own homes. A simple trip to Home Depot or Lowes and a couple of hours of maintenance work …

My life plans did not include single-handedly populating the earth; yet, when after four children, I found out I was pregnant again–with TWINS– that is exactly what it felt like. Since the birth of my twin boys, I have become increasingly aware of the emergent condition of our planet.
Our planet’s degraded state is due, at least in part, to over population-and more importantly over consumption. Not only do I feel an intense moral need to “do my part,” because I have a large family, I feel an intense …

There are no shoeboxes of old birthday cards collecting dust in Sandy Schimmel’s closet. There are no take-out menus cluttering her kitchen counter or pieces of junk mail taking up space on her coffee table.
The colorful paper waste that most people can’t wait to shove in a drawer or a trash can, Schimmel is turning into art worth thousands of dollars.
The Phoenix-based artist collects drawers full of business cards, postcards, brochures and all types of junk mail, which she keeps arranged by color before she pain-stakingly chops and arranges them …