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Heating (and Cooling) Passively When It’s Too Late to Design Your Home For It

HEATING (AND COOLING) PASSIVELY WHEN IT’S TOO LATE TO DESIGN YOUR HOME FOR IT One of the more difficult things about taking on a permaculture lifestyle when we already have an established residence is that, because the practice is based on efficient design, many times we having seemingly come to the game too late. Once […]

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Keeping warm with minimal heating: small-scale solutions

Keeping warm with minimal heating: small-scale solutions This is the third post of a four-post series on how to keep reasonably comfortable in a minimally-heated residence. It’s based on my and my husband Mike’s personal experience with a residence heated to 60-63F (16-17C) when we are awake, 50F (10C) when we are sleeping, in a […]

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Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, not Places

Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, not Places These days, we provide thermal comfort in winter by heating the entire volume of air in a room or building. In earlier times, our forebear’s concept of heating was more localized: heating people, not places. They used radiant heat sources that warmed only certain parts […]

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