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Historic Buildings Energy Efficiency Guide

Available from Clean Air-Cool Planet is a publication created to help historic district commissions and other local organizations and facility managers make historic buildings more energy efficient. Clean Air-Cool Planet is a non-profit, New Hampshire-based organization dedicated solely to finding and promoting solutions to global warming.

This new guide, “Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy and Historic Preservation: A Guide for Historic District Commissions”, details in 40 pages ways to employ energy efficiency measures and renewable energy without detracting from the historic value of properties. Facilities discussed include community buildings and museums, as well as historic homes.

“A large proportion of

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WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Ancient Flooding Problems

Choices made by Egyptians digging burial tombs thousands of years ago may have led to present day problems.

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WEIRD WEDNESDAY: 500 Years Of History Down The Drain…Fortunately!

Earlier this week, scientists in Scotland came to the realization that a discovery from 1990 was actually quite significant: a 500 year old undisturbed drain was a goldmine for archaeologists from Glasgow University.

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