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Green Snow Removal
In New England, snow is a part of life and dealing with it is something you have to do. We currently have about a foot of snow and it’s still coming down steadily. So what are the greenest ways to...
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Electric Snow Thrower in Action
Last week, when the mid-Atlantic was buried in snow, most of Boston shut down in anticipation of snow that never arrived. This week, after actually receiving enough snow to shovel (about 8″), I took...
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When Living Green Isn’t What’s Best For Your Family
Wow, that sounds like an odd thing for our blog “When living green isn’t what’s best for your family.” I think it’s important for people to realize that sometimes you have to make choices, and if...
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Going for Solar: Removing Snow from Solar Panels
Snow piled on our solar panels I love snow, but when snow is piled up on our solar panels it significantly reduces our electricity production! Most manufacturers recommend letting nature take care of...
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Getting Rid of Ice Dams
Ice dams are those sheets of ice and snow that form at the edge of your roof. They often look beautiful and result and in long, lovely icicles hanging from your eaves. I love looking at them and as a...
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Nemo – The Blizzard of 2013
Jonathan and our daughter ready to shovel the 3′ of snow from Blizzard Nemo We are still digging out from Nemo, which turned out to be the 5th largest blizzard in Boston history. The official snow...
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Be Glad It’s Snowing In January
I’ve heard a lot of people recently either complain about the snow or express their happiness about how warm it was this month. I realize that it is human nature to talk about the weather and that...
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Climate Change is Causing More Intense Storms
As we were re-scheduling projects and meetings because of the incoming blizzard, a co-worker from another department asked me: Are we seeing more frequent and more intense storms because of climate...
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Snowflakes
Our area has had over 60″ of snow in the past 17 days. That may not sound like a lot for some people, but on average we get 44″ of snow a year and it has been so cold here that it has not been melting...
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Breaking Ice Dams with Lady’s Lingerie
The beautiful large icicles are a sign that you may have ice dams Do you have ice dams on your house? While the long term solution to preventing ice dams is proper air-sealing and insulation under...
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Our Green Snow Removal Tool Gets an Upgrade
Our trusty Toro Electric Snow Blower died during the first blizzard of 2015 that slammed us with 2 feet of snow. I originally thought I could repair it by replacing the broken blade, but unfortunately...
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