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    • Going Green…Save The Earth & Your Wallets

    Written by Brook Reilly. July 6, 2012.

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    Go green this summer! Check out some of these projects that are inexpensive, useful and energy efficient!

    Use a Clothesline

    You can buy a pulley kit like the one pictured above at the hardware store. Or you can order the components online—clotheslineshop.com for instance, will ship you two Ts made of metal pipe, plus the fittings and rope.

    Insulate Hot-Water Pipes

    The solution: Insulate pipes wherever you can reach them by encasing them in rubber or polyethylene foam tubes. The tubes come with an adhesive-coated slit down the middle, so you just ease them over the pipe and press the ends closed. Seal the seams with duct tape. Tests show that insulation can double the cool-down time in 1/2-inch pipe and triple it in 3/4-inch pipe.

    Read more at This Old House

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