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If 10,000 Biters replace a 100-watt overhead hallway light with a sun tunnel, in a year we'll avert the CO2 caused by driving a Prius around the equator 882 times.
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The largest prairie dog colony was discovered in 1900 in TX; it was about 100 miles wide, 250 miles long, and home to an estimated 400 million rodents.
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Wanna bring a mountain of natural light into your molehill?
The Bite
Gopher it. Install a sun tunnel, a variation on the skylight that's cheaper and easier to put in. Now get burrowing.The Benefits
- Digging the energy savings. About 11% of the energy we use at home goes to lighting.
- Lighting that's cheaper than dirt. Daylight is free.
- Less of a (ro)dent on your wallet. Sun tunnels are flexible, so you can install them around rafters and barely disturb roofing (unlike skylights, which can require major modifications).
Personally Speaking
Heather's remodel of her hundred-year-old casa includes using sun tunnels to light her dark-as-a-vampire's lair basement.Wanna Try?
Sep 04,2008
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Our Rocky Mountain Pearl
I'm preempting our sun tunnels blog (but feel free to share any skylight-related info in the comments) to remind you all that Ideal Bite's latest local edition, Denver, launches today - I could rattle off a bunch of trivia I know about Rocky Mountain oysters, but instead here's a couple info-bits about our new Denver editor, Laurie Budgar.
L-dawg's eco-confession: "Um, this might really out me, but sometimes, on really hot days, I like to drive with the windows down and the A/C on."
LB's favorite Denver eco-spot: "One of my faves is a restaurant on Old South Pearl St. called Gaia that's inside an old Victorian house. It's known for its crepes (both sweet and savory), and it has a garden in the backyard where it grows organic (not certified, but it uses organic methods) veggies and herbs, and obviously it's local too! It also serves all-natural meats, and has amazing coffee and a really mellow deck where you can enjoy it all."
(And if you haven't, sign up for the Denver edition already.)
-Toshio...off to eat something fried...
L-dawg's eco-confession: "Um, this might really out me, but sometimes, on really hot days, I like to drive with the windows down and the A/C on."
LB's favorite Denver eco-spot: "One of my faves is a restaurant on Old South Pearl St. called Gaia that's inside an old Victorian house. It's known for its crepes (both sweet and savory), and it has a garden in the backyard where it grows organic (not certified, but it uses organic methods) veggies and herbs, and obviously it's local too! It also serves all-natural meats, and has amazing coffee and a really mellow deck where you can enjoy it all."
(And if you haven't, sign up for the Denver edition already.)
-Toshio...off to eat something fried...
Biter Comments...
In your tip about solartubes, you said, "Heather's remodel of her hundred-year-old casa includes using sun tunnels to light her dark-as-a-vampire's lair basement." So what I want to know is how she lit the *basement* with solatubes? I've only seen them installed on the roof...
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Posted by: Alan Johnson | September 05, 2008 at 12:31 PM