Currents

A Green Home with All the Extras? Keep Dreaming.Since 2008, Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry has hosted a special exhibit called Smart Home: Green + Wired. For an extra $8, you can tour a seemingly perfect environmentally friendly house. It’s an actual freestanding house on the museum’s lawn, a stack of thrifty modular units […]

A First Attempt at Canning Goes AwryWe literally had a bumper crop of tomatoes this past fall, vining into our driveway. Lest you think you need a large, bucolic setting for growing stuff, most of our produce is produced in a long, skinny bed dug for that purpose along our side yard, and underneath a […]