Living Lighter on the Land

I am always impressed with the winter survival strategies of animals: bears that metabolize their fat, inactive frogs that nearly freeze and...

Here is a compost trick: If you throw whole eggshells into your compost heap you are likely to get small pieces of egg shells in the fini...

When designing the solar system for the Armstrong House we calculated a number of 'load estimates', which aim to predict the house...

Happy New Year everyone.  Here in Pound Ridge, NY the temperatures have hovered around 30 F. for the past week.  Two storms dropped a tota...

Nighttime lows have been dipping into the twenties, making my cozy little home all the more comfortable.   The Armstrong House , the physica...