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Hot tips for getting your compost pile cooking
Advice columnist Umbra Fisk has simple suggestions for revving up the backyard compost heap.
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How can I protect myself from a pesticide-spraying neighbor?
Advice columnist Umbra Fisk shoots some suggestions your way.
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How should I clean wine spills? And what to do with mesh veggie bags?
In this season of too much food and drink, readers have an abundance of questions about puny-but-perplexing kitchen products -- and advice maven Umbra Fisk cooks up answers.
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Ask Umbra: Can air fresheners make you sick?
A reader wonders about the effects of air fresheners. Umbra clears the air.
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Ask Umbra: Compost or recycle? Eco-UGGs? Kettle battle? And more
Let Umbra take a little weight off your shoulders.Dearest readers, Some people engage in spring cleaning, but I prefer to do a little winter cleaning. I take down the Gristmahanukwanzakah shrub, put away the nog, and tidy up ye olde inbox to prepare for the almost certain Onslaught of Angst in 2012. During this year’s […]
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Ask Umbra: Should I wash out my zip-lock bags?
Don't lose sleep over plastics and food. Instead of worrying about how to handle your baggies and bins, purge plastic from your kitchen.
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Wicked wicks: Ask Umbra on paraffin candle disposal
How to dispose of toxic tapers? Ask Umbra burns the candle at both ends to find out.
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The young and the carless: Ask Umbra on how to get rid of your car
Want to ditch driving for better ways of getting around? Ask Umbra has good ideas for getting rid of that hunk of metal that’s been weighing you down.
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Holy sheet! Ask Umbra on printers
Inkjet? Laser? What’s an eco-conscious person to use when hard copy is a necessity? Ask Umbra spells it out for you.