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Electric shock and how to avoid it

It's a classic sight gag in the Tom and Jerry/Ren and Stimpy genre of cat and mouse cartons. The cat chases the mouse. The mouse runs into its hole. Cate plunges his paw into muse hole. Fumbles around for mouse. Cat inadvertently grabs a live electrical w... Read >

When Your Hot Water Heater Needs Replaced

It's one of modern life's most underrated pleasures: a nice, warm shower. And all we have to do is turn a knob. Nobody has to haul sloshing buckets of water up the hill Jack-and-Jill-style. No one has to heat up the gallons of H2O in a whistling teakettle... Read >

How to make your fireplace more energy efficient

The household fireplace gets quite a workout. It's where romances are sparked. Where families gather on cold nights to warm their hands and hearts. It's where Santa emerges triumphant after squeezing his plus-size tush down our blackened chimneys. And it'... Read >

Space Heater Hazards

It's wintertime. And that means hot apple cider, fuzzy earmuffs and a giant uptick in residential fires. Last year in Boston, an apartment fire took the lives of two children: 8-year-old Rebecca Zizi and her 11-year-old brother Rooben. Boston Fire Chi... Read >

Ecologically friendly New Year’s Resolutions

We've all made them. New Year resolutions. We swear off of sweets, alcohol, caffeine and bad relationships. We promise to exercise more, eat less and be all-around better people. And every now and then, one of these resolutions actually stick. We run that... Read >

Wool, Flannel and Other Energy-saving Resources

When winter blows into town, we instinctively know we need to bundle up before we head outside. We put on our coats, gloves, throw on a scarf and don our various hats, caps, berets and woolen chapeaus. But when we get back home, most of us peel off the la... Read >

Drive better electrically

The same energy source that lights up your living room, amps up your microwave, burns up your toast and executes convicted felons in Alabama is about to fuel up your automobile. Every forward-looking carmaker has either one in their pipeline, in concept o... Read >

Staying Safe and Cozy

Nothing feels better on a cold winter's day than peeling off frosty winter gloves, soggy socks and snuggling up to a roaring fire. But these days, the warmth of the family hearth is likely to be an electric space heater or a digital thermostat. As winter ... Read >

Harvesting Wind Power

Farm after farm has been added to the American landscape in the last year alone. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, nearly every state has witnessed their scorching-fast growth. But these farms don't harvest corn or soybeans, they harvest wind power. In 20... Read >

Nuclear Power: Friend or Foe?

You hear the word "nuclear" and all sorts of things come to mind--none of them good. Rogue nations enriching uranium to wipe out half the map…solid citizens carrying placards and chanting "No nukes!" as a radioactive generators threaten to be built in t... Read >

Savings in Motion

Tired of having to be the family energy cop? You know, the one who has to go around switching off the lights that others leave on? TVs that no one are watching? Well, here's your chance to put your energy police badge back in its box and retire from the f... Read >