Q. My family enjoys practicing a "green" lifestyle whenever possible. This includes, when weather permits, drying our clothes on a clothesline on our patio, and not in a clothes dryer. I received a ...

Editor’s note: Our Feb. 7 story on the revival of old-fashioned clotheslines as a way of reducing energy use prompted the largest outpouring of letters this year. A sampling: Thank you, thank you ...

"I call my clothesline my solar dryer," said Lisa Taranto, a green activist and director of the community Tricycle Gardens, who hangs laundry outside her East Broad Street home. Opponents, however, ...

Editor’s note: Our Feb. 7 story on the revival of old-fashioned clotheslines as a way of reducing energy use prompted the largest outpouring of letters this year. A sampling: Thank you, thank you ...

Solar energy comes to Earthlings in many ways. Ancient Persians used passive solar architecture. East Africans about the same time funneled cool ocean wind through tunnels to cool themselves. Now at ...