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Cheaper, easier to reduce fossil fuel dependence

Cheaper, easier to reduce fossil fuel dependence

ossil fuels are one of the more common necessary evils of modern life.
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Multi-tools usefulness growing in popularity

Multi-tools are small, versatile, hand-held power tools that help you sand, saw and scrape in dozens of home renovation situations in tight quarters.
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Houseworks: Reducing the radon gas hazard

Houseworks: Reducing the radon gas hazard

Last month I answered a reader’s question about high radon levels in homes, and the response from that article made it clear more radon questions need to be answered.
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Lindseed oil paint green alternative

Last year I began using what has to be the healthiest exterior paint in the world, and I’ve been using it again this past spring.
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Getting down to generator basics

Getting down to generator basics

Most of us live just an extension cord away from the stone age. Cut off our electric power — even for just a day — and we’re pretty much helpless. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Generators have been getting smaller, lighter, more powerful and less expensive during the last 10 years.
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Cabinet scrapers effective but often overlooked

Cabinet scrapers effective but often overlooked

If you’re stripping wood finishes, repairing antiques, building new furniture or smoothening any kind of wood surface, there’s an ancient alternative to sandpaper that’s faster, less messy and healthier for you.
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Cutting trees more than meets the eye

Cutting trees more than meets the eye

Mature trees are beautiful, but they can also be expensive. At least that’s what I hear from homeowners who’ve paid $600 to $700 to have unwanted single trees removed or professionally pruned.
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Pliers and wrenches for the kitchen drawer

No matter how basic your DIY aspirations, life is better with at least a few good implements.
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Officials release names of those killed in boat accident

Officials release names of those killed in boat accident

BRANSON, Mo. — More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson lake were members of the same Indiana family, and they likely would not have been on the ill-fated trip but for a ticket mix-up.
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Prolific ‘Graduate’ writer-actor Buck Henry dies at 89

Prolific ‘Graduate’ writer-actor Buck Henry dies at 89

NEW YORK — Buck Henry, “The Graduate” co-writer who as screenwriter, character actor, “Saturday Night Live” host and cherished talk-show and party guest became an all-around cultural superstar of the 1960s and 70s, has died. He was 89.
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