Good news! Soaring energy costs could get even worse, spurring a new era in which people make clean power for themselves. Blaine Greteman | September 2008 issue In the 1920s, millions of rural Americans got their energy the same way they got their butter—they made it themselves. … [Read more...] about Talkin' 'bout my generation
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Rebekah and Stephen Hren took a 75-year-old house and turned it into a model zero-carbon home. Here’s how. Diane Daniel | September 2008 issue Rebekah Hren stands over the small desk in the bedroom she and her husband Stephen share in Durham, North Carolina, and powers up their … [Read more...] about Power couple