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Lemon for your Body

Lemon has been used for thousands of years for medicinal purposes, as well as cleaning.  Lemons are rich in vitamin C which strengthens the immune system and acting as an antioxant, and protects cells from radical damage.  It is also a great buffer in the body, although it is acidic, reducing hyperacidity in the stomach.

The juice and the peels are great antiseptics, and the leaves can be used to reduce fever. It can treat gout, arthritis, scurvy, inflamation of the mouth and throat, digestive orders, asthma, insomnia, nervousness, heart palpatations and stomach, liver and intestine problems.

Lemon juice treats sunburned skin and relieves its pain. 

Lemon juice can be used as a disenfectant for wounds and those in the mouth or throat.

To alleviate sore throat and hoarseness, squeeze one lemon and dilute the juice with 1 cup of hot water. Gargle three times a day with the juice.

 

To stop a nosebleed dribble a small amount of diluted lemon juice on a cotton ball and dab it repeatedly onto the nasal mucous membrane. The lemon’s astringent effect draws the body tissues together.

So lemon can be an inexpensive cure for many ills. Squeeze to your health.

Don’t Worry It’s Not Tax Audited

Energy Audits are usefull for any home and is a fast growing field. While you can get one professionally done, if you go to www.energystar.gov and click on the “home improvement” tab you can access the do it yourself energy audit- all you need is your last 12 month’s utility bills. The site will then lead you to home improvement steps you can take to reduce your bills and your house’s innefeciency.

To save up to 20% on your heating and cooling costs, work on sealing and insulating the outer shell of your home. It is the most efficient way to reduce these costs. The three ways to do this is to (1) seal air leaks all through the home to stop drafts. Drafts can be found by carrying a candle around door, window and other possible leaks. The second thing to do is to add insulation to block heat loss in winter and too much heat in the summer, and thirdly use energy star windows.

The DIY Solution

The best and most inexpensive resource is the DIY Guide to Sealing and Insulating with ENERGY STAR. The Guide offers step-by-step instructions for sealing common air leaks and adding insulation to the attic. It is free and downloadable from the website. So go ahead and audit yourself and save money and electricity.

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Clean!

Lemons, with their slight acidity and refreshing smell, are useful in many ways. They can be used in cleaning and polishing naturally, without the odor of vinegar, or especially harsh inorganic cleansers.

• Soak them in a pot of boiling water with your white clothes to brighten them.
• Stains on Formica counter-tops can be eliminated by squeezing fresh lemon juice on it and letting it soak 30 minutes. Sprinkle it with baking soda, then scrub with a sponge and rinse.
• Boil lemon slices in a pot of water and let simmer. In an hour the smell should permeate the room.
• A paste of salt and lemon juice takes rust off of chrome and tools.
• For a natural furniture polish mix two parts olive oil with one part lemon juice. Just a few drops will do it. Store in a glass jar.
• Lemon juice left overnight on an ink stain on cloth can be laundered and should remove it.
• Rub fresh lemon onto a cutting board to help remove stains and onion odors.
• For rust stains on porcelain or enamel sinks or tubs, dip half a lemon in 1/2 a cup of borax and scrub, then rinse.
• Lemon juice and table salt are also effective as a cleanser for non-lacquered brass. Dampen the sponge with the lemon juice then sprinkle on salt and rub. Rinse then dry gently with a cloth.

Countless other uses for lemons are available. More later.

 Warm Heat for Warm Feet

Many years ago I stayed at a Korean friend’s house. I slept on the floor in the basement. This sounds terrible except the floor was heated with pipes underneath the floor. It was heavenly- warm and comforting. One of the best prices  I found for this under tile heating was aroung 6 dollars per foot.

But what about this kind of heating under carpet. Doesn’t that sound great?  Carpeting is warmer than tile or hardwood flooring but it can still be cold, especially in basements. There is a company called Speedheat that sells under floor heating for tile or carpet. It is only 1/16th inch thin. It costs pennies a day to operate and uses “zone heating,” heating only the room where you are, saving even more energy. With a heated floor you can turn down your thermostate and save even more money. To quote the website, “radiant heating creates comfort at an average of 10°F less than forced air heating .”

The unit is waterproof, fireproof, and shock proof.  It also can handle any type of furniture.  and to heat a 5 by 7 foor rug is $300.00. You can find out more at www.speedheat.com.

Green Chili 

Another good recipe, this one is tex-mex, using one large chicken breast, is for chili verde. It is like regular red chili, but with chicken, usually white beans, and green chilis. This recipe uses chicken leg quarters, but a large breast should prove meatier. This recipe serves 6. Enjoy.

Enchiladas

Another good recipe using only one breast of chicken to feed a family of four or five is chicken enchilades. The sauce can be either the conventional red tomatoe sauce or, as here, enchilades verdes, a green sauce.

Martha Stewart has a recipe both online and in the current issue of her magazine. It includes onion, garlic, fresh cilantro, tomatillos, jalapenos, poblano, tortillas, Monteray Jack cheese, sour cream, and 1 1/2 pounds chicken breast. This should be only one breast deboned making this dish economical. Tomatillos might be difficult to get as might be poblanos- you may have to go to a mexican market. 

Here is the recipe.

 

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Why Hang Your Clothes up to Dry

According to the federal Energy Information Administration, 6% of  total energy consumed by American homes is drying clothes. Before the advent of the electric clothes dryer what did we do? We hung clothes up to dry outside, or if it rained, inside.

Au Natural

My father had a picture of his mother standing by a large wooden, square wheel. A woman would climb a short series of steps to reach a platform, then reach over to hang up her laundry over this frame. Today a variety of stands and ropes are available to hang laundry inside or out. Walmart sells an attractive simple wooden rack that folds like an accordion, but which broke under high desert winds soon after I bought it. Ikea sells a nice metal one, also collapsible, and sturdy.

 

Opposing Views

Drying clothes outdoors saves electricity, saves money, and sunlight kills germs thereby disinfecting your clothes. What could be a drawback? Just ask your home owners association. 60 million people now live in some 300,000e 300,000
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neighborhood associations that are at least partially “governed” with codes of restrictive rules. One of the many rules and regulations prohibits the use of outdoor clothes lines and racks. Wouldn’t want to trash up the neighborhood I guess. I lived in a community where each house was surrounded by 10 to 15 foot high walls. Still the next door neighbor reported us for having grass that was just a little bit too high. How much more would we be chastised for hanging out laundry up outside.

Utah and Florida have ” right to dry” laws.May the rest of the states follow and save you and the U.S. 6%.

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 Your Own Fuel Cell Cogeneration Unit

Coming, someday, to your home,  or a home near you, Toshiba is now testing, home hydrogen fuel cell generators.  About the size of a refrigerator, these units turn natural gas into electricity, and the heat produced in this reaction produces hot water. Currently units are being used on a trial basis at Osaka Gas, in Japan.There over 3000 homes are experimenting with this by Panasonic, Toyota, and Ebara Ballard.

Someday, the World

Home heating and electricity make up for 1/4th of the world’s energy consumption, so this is important technology to develop. These units now use natural gas, and with the natural gas infrastructure already in most places this is a feasible product. One company Ballard Power Systems out of Vancouver, Canada, a pioneer in fuel cells, hopes, and says these units could reach 1.8 billion homes a year.

The Pros and Cons

There are pros and cons to this system. A con that will have to be worked out is that it only produces one kilowatt. So for instance, a toaster needs 1 kilowatt to run, and an electric clothes dryer uses 5. Another con is that 60 percent or more of waste energy is produced as heat, but this is really a pro as it is not wasted but is used to make hot water. The other con is that currently they are on a trial basis, and they run $10,000.00. As you only save between $500 to $800 in bills per year, as it only lasts 10 years, this makes it not economically worth it. What is needed is big manufacturing, and mass production to eventually, someday bring the cost down. Another pro users keep commenting on is that with a display on the side, you can see how much energy you use for various appliances, and so consume less energy. Hopefully with time these kinks will be ironed out, and you too can have your own personal, private hydrogen fuel cell power plant.

 

Recycling paper, plastic, bottles and cans can reduce your waste considerably, but what do you do with your kitchen scraps? If you live in a rural or some suburban areas you can compost your scraps outside in any number of compost bins available.  If you live in some suburban communities, townhouses, or apartments there is a product to compost food scraps completely.

The Nature Mill composter is a small unit that is plugged in indoors. It takes 120 pounds of digestible material a month, about an average of four pounds a day. You put your fruit and vegetable, egg shells, dairy, coffee grounds, grains, and even meat in the top of the knee-high unit, close it, and it breaks down your waste with automatic heat and airation. With in two weeks your compost drops down to the chamber below, ready for use in garden soil inside or out.

The first time you use your machine you must add some good garden soil or Container Booster Mix. This is a large bag of plant and manure compost concentrated with granite, nitrate, phosphate, and seven other natural ingredients. It is also made by, and can be ordered by, the same company. It can be used in addition to old soil to rejuvenate it, useful in pots where a plant has been a long time. Either garden soil or this product is needed to inoculate your new indoor composter with necessary microorganisms that break down your waste, for the first time.

The only drawback is the price, which is $300.00. However, with this product you can achieve almost zero waste anywhere and have beautiful compost as well. See this and more great products at www.gardeners.com.

 

Terracycle, a company in New Jersey, buys your garbage and turns it into good stuff. Everything they make is made from 100% pure trash.

For two cents each they will buy a variety of wrappers. For other prices they buy everything from drink pouches to cereal boxes to corks to cell phones to oreo cookie pouches. They send you envelopes to put them in, and once you have accumulated a certain amount, you send it back to them, then they send you money.

From your discards they make a wide variety of products. They make tote bags, and backpacks from your wrappers. They also make a selection of organic garden products, fire place logs, cleaning products, and the only natural drain cleaner I have ever seen.

They make a full line of school supplies. There are lunch carriers, folders, binders, dividers, portfolios, and a full line of pens and pencils. There is even a biodegradable pen.

So, check out their website for locations where their products are available,(they are EVERYwhere). And also go to it to see the many more products they have. Look it up at www.terracycle.net