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Lightbulbs: Green Buying Guide (Consumer Reports)
Finding the best and brightest bulbs is getting easier
Thrifting 101: How to find great furniture (Mother Nature Network)
You can find beautiful secondhand furniture for reasonable prices — if you know how (and where) to look
Industry pushes back against TrueCar.com
Are those little logos helpful? (Seattle Times)
‘Green’ logos used on products may aid consumers — or not.
State of the Art: A thermostat that’s clever, not clunky (David Pogue, NY Times)
The Nest Learning Thermostat doesn’t introduce just one radical rethinking of the thermostat; it introduces four of them.
The Nest Learning Thermostat doesn’t introduce just one radical rethinking of the thermostat; it introduces four of them.