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Give spring bulbs a head start now bi13700135 How would you like spring to come a month early? Grab a few bulbs, a pot, some potting soil and get forcing. We asked bulb expert Brent Heath, of Brent and Becky's Bulbs, to show us how to use bulbs pots to get a jump on spring

Hoarding light bulbs before ban bi13700135 Sales of 100-watt incandescents have spiked before new energy-efficiency standards take effect on Jan. 1

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In Memoriam: Norman Krim bi13700135 Norman Krim, who died last week at the age of 98, was by all accounts a mensch , an all-around decent guy. This was evident to me back 2003, the night the Raytheon archivist hosted me at home Newton, Mass. For hours he regaled me, over several cups of green tea, the stories of life and the dawning of the electronics era the 30s and 40s

Innovation Week 2011: Five Creative Ways to Deal the Switch to Green Lig bi13700135 Photo: Inhabitat Most people like?or at least don't mind?being "green"; recycling and cutting down our carbon footprints and all that has become fashionable over the past decade or so. One technology that hasn't been fully embraced are the new lighting..

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